The Revit Clinic

Performance pick me up

A new white paper is being made available to all Revit users.  I was part of the team that put this one together so I hope you find it helpful.  It is a comprehensive paper that discusses best practices for optimal performance and productivity within the Revit 2009 family of products.   The idea is to give you better guidelines around what you can do to make Revit run faster and get your Revit models more efficient.  

Some major topics that are discussed:

• Project Structuring
• Worksharing
• Linked Files
• Hardware Optimization
• Large Model Performance

Hopefully, you will find that this whitepaper becomes required reading for you and your staff and you keep these guidelines (especially the model recommendations) in mind while you are using Revit. 

Download Revit_Platform_2009_Model_Performance_Technical_Note.pdf

Unrecoverable errors and DWG files

Sometimes importing a DWG file into Revit 2009 products can cause an Unrecoverable error to occur in the file.  One of the common causes of this problem is an error in the DWG file.  Often auditing, recovering, and purging the file can remove the errors.  Besides typical AutoCAD audit errors, large amounts of Annotation scales can also cause Revit not be to able to import the file.  Once the extra annotation scales are removed from the file the file will import correctly into Revit.

In order to remove the extra annotation scales from the DWG file you can use the scales list cleanup utility.  You can download the utility here: http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=DL11062617

Wii Remote fun

I think this is pretty cool.  I wonder if you can use it with Revit…

Jonny Lee Video from http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html