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Revit Speed

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No matter how fast our machines get, I have yet to have someone say "Revit is too fast"! Well if you are looking for a lot of little ways to speed up Revit, here is a list of things to try. Purge the crap out of all your linked Revit files. Compact your Revit files once a week. Restart Revit every 4 hours.

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AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems

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Digital Drafting Whether you liked AutoCAD, MicroStation, or whatever. (I We still drafted, but with digital lines. These properties allow us to step away from layers for display control and give us a mechanism for linked scheduling of any object type. A Revit project has only one model. I was a big fan of Mac Architron.)

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Overview of Revit Systems

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Revit Systems debuted early this year giving MEP engineers a third choice of CAD technology to use; it may have also caused a bit of confusion on what software is really the best for any given firm. This article should help clarify the choices and provide a solid overview of Revit Systems. So why choose Revit Systems?

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Revit MEP - Heads up for First Time Users

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Well I hope to point out some of the potential problems you might encounter if you are going down the Revit trail. I hope to follow up this out line with some "how to do it" posts that will give you a little more detail on getting the Revit train a rollin'. You will need to accept what comes with Revit or customize for your office use.

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All Capital Letters

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Saw a request recently to change the "Grand Total" (title as Revit calls it) that appears at the bottom of Revit schedules from Sentence Case to Upper Case. Going back to hand drafting and reducing the number of characters to master for simplicity and consistency sake. Alter the schedule so it uses the Totals Only option.

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Revit 2017 - Calculated Values in Tags

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This addition permits us to do the same thing to tags that we've been using in schedules. This starts in the Edit Label dialog via a new button, then it is the same as the dialog we've seen in Schedules. This starts in the Edit Label dialog via a new button, then it is the same as the dialog we've seen in Schedules.

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Making Revit Systems Work

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The question I always seem to come back to is this, What is it going to take to get Revit Systems working for me? BIM If you are wanting to switch to Revit Systems because you are feeling pressure to complete a BIM model, Keep in mind, nobody can agree to what the Hell a BIM model is. When that happens, my money is on Revit to deliver.

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