RAID on the Cheap: Windows 7 Software RAID
Here’s an idea – if you have two old but similarly sized hard drives sitting around, plug them into your Windows 7 PC and create a Striped Volume. Striping increases the access speed of the drive. Thi…
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Priorities when specifying a Revit workstation
In order, and dependent on how large the models you wish to edit are: More RAM Faster Processor More Processers Faster RAM Faster HD viaThe Building Coder: Performant Hardware…
Revit and your Graphics Card
quote “I have been asked by a few customers if Revit will cache textures in graphics RAM just like a game system might? … I am happy to say the answer is yes – Revit will fully use this RAM and the gr…
Smoother multitasking while Rendering in Revit
Revit 2011 (Mental Ray) utilises all available CPU cores that the OS can ‘see.’ When multitasking, your PC may slow to a crawl after a render begins. You can limit the amount of CPU time that the Rend…
DirectX Runtimes – download
As you know, support for DirectX is now an intrinsic part of Revit 3D hardware acceleration mode. If you wish to install updated DirectX runtimes, go to this link (February 2010 version). This may or …
Revit Hardware – compatibility and performance
Revit is a very acceptable OOTB (out of the box) tool. If you are using Revit OOTB, there are really only two variables that determine your productivity. Assuming you have zero customised content, the…
Worksharing Monitor – Free System Performance Utility
First off, if you are working with Central/Local Files and Worksharing, then I encourage you to head over to Autodesk Subscription, login and get the Worksharing Monitor. Then, open Revit. Go to the ‘…
Ribbon performance…bring on the Web Update
I had a persistent crash when ‘tearing an item off’ the Ribbon, so I logged a Support Request. The following admission from the Autodesk Support Team representative is quite telling:“So far we have se…