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A while back I started using the hashtag GoodRevit to share workflow tips that I’ve found useful when working in large teams and on large projects. Here are some of those tweets: Establish Project Ori…
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 …
Simon Moreau has put together and shared some API code that allows him to track the time taken to open and work with Revit models. I can see this would be a good way to identify “problem” Revit centra…
When working across an entire healthcare facility and clashing combined NWDs, Navisworks may slow down to a crawl (we are talking single instance using 10gb RAM or more). Here are some tips to improve…
Direct link here Info: The Revit platform’s performance can depend as much on the knowledge, skill, and practices of its users as on the hardware environment provided for the software. To address both…
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 …
Here are a few interesting (and in some cases controversial) quotes from new Revit blogger, the Pragmatic Reviteer.” CPU – single threaded speed is the most important thing.In my experience, the main …
Cool tip from The Revit Convert on how to skip the splash screen and speed up the loading time of your Revit.exe. Just right-click on your Revit shortcut icon and go to Properties, then: From the Prop…
From Gordon Price on RFO: Go to the Revit program folder (C:Program FilesAutodeskRevit Architecture 2013Program for RAC) and look for a file called AdskHardwareCertificationReport.xml. Rename this fil…