Allocating resources, developing a budget and establishing a project schedule always seem organized and logical in the original spreadsheet. Yet when working on a real project with a real client, the original project plan invariably becomes messy and complicated. Have you ever been confronted with this situation? You are very early in design for a high-rise office tower. You have a rough... Read more...
Clients, consultants and design partners living a perfect BIM environment would create models in our platform of choice. Existing buildings would be fully modeled with perfect accuracy reflecting detailed existing conditions. Unfortunately, reality intrudes in this fantasy environment. Assume you are fully migrated to Revit and a valuable client approaches you to create bid documents for... Read more...
Revit 2010 has a two (2) mile maximum distance restriction in any axis for a successful CAD link or import. This limit reduces potential inaccuracies that a large drawing space can generate. These inaccuracies have been an issue for a long time. Autodesk attempted to limit the problem by restricting the link or import file size. When you are working with civil drawings and developing large master... Read more...
More Minimizing Magic! There is another practical application for the technique in our earlier Managing Memory post. Reduce time opening a model and beginning work for the day. Open Revit, minimize, then restore. Open or create your local file, minimize again then restore once more. We have discovered that memory usage skyrockets when you open Revit even before you create or open your local file. ... Read more...
Revit is sticky. The program is designed to connect elements in a logical way and it is designed so you may snap to remote objects. Insuring that Revit sticks to the correct element, level or grid is easier if there are no extraneous Reference Planes in the model. Though you may only see a short section of the plane in any given view, it still extends in an infinite direction in all views. Improve... Read more...
Challenges a team encounters in active projects provide the best opportunity for developing Best Practice strategies. Eliminating Ceiling Tile Slivers was a problem in a large student housing project with complex geometry. Generally, a keynote is sufficient in the following circumstance but if the detail is important, consider this Best Practice recommendation. (This method may be adapted for tiled... Read more...
Minimize Magic! As you work in Revit, memory (RAM) on your computer is used. As you complete tasks, some memory is not returned to the operating system (OS). Throughout the day, you may run low on resources especially with larger projects. We discovered a simple magic trick to release RAM back to the OS. Minimize Revit! This seems difficult to believe, so we tested it. Here are the results. If... Read more...
