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Box is great, and Box Sync is still the most robust file sync tool I have used for huge datasets. In BIM and VDC, our data is getting bigger, primarily due to the prevalence of point clouds. It is not…
When working with serious hardware and big 3D models, computer memory management is an important thing. You want every byte of RAM to be doing a job for your system. So I was very interested to read t…
What specification did I end up with? (Read the previous Part in this series to see how we established some baseline specs) After checking out a few different manufacturers and comparing pricing, I de…
So, you are in the market for a new BIM workstation? Recently I was too, and I wanted to share my experience and the ‘process’ of specifying, buying, and setting up a BIM workstation. Over the years, …
You can never have too much RAM in Revit: Surprisingly, the model did not crash at this point. Screencast below shows what happened when I tried to draw a section in this model. I had to click ok and …
Orbit Downloader recently brought our LAN to a halt. Where we should have been getting 2.2 mbps, we were getting 0.15 mbps. I eventually performed an isolation test along with some bandwidth tests. As…
This poem has done the email forward rounds for years, and has been incorrectly attributed to various authors. It is in the style of Dr Seuss, but was authored by Gene Ziegler. Here is the full versio…
RFO Co-founder iru69 recently (14 October) updated his very detailed post on video cards and Revit at: Revit Hardware : Video Graphic Cards I recommend that you read this prior to investing in a new g…
Here are a couple of system utilities that may help you to squeeze maximum performance out of your hardware (to speed up Revit, of course). Actually, my FX580 was struggling a bit with Showcase, so I …
Using my laptop with Revit 2013 and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics card, I came across an interesting bug. Using the Tab key, nothing seemed to be working. But this is what was actually happe…