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My family file is too big for my computer. Every time i try to load it into my project it says that I don't got enough memory. Does anybody know how to make a family smaller in size?
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Curtain wall? How big is the file? What version of Revit? Specs of your computer?You are in a project and not in a family template, right? you can "Purge" the file and save with other name, that will decrease the file size...
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Whoa... Did you really model all of that pierced material? There are materials that do this a whole lot easier and will not overload your system.
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to reduce size don't draw the fence like a fence but like a solid "sheet". Choose a material and use an image for the cutout as shown in the image
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Typhoon: It's Kind of a fence I need to create. It's revit 2011. Computer specs: intel core 2 (2.13Ghz) 2GB ram, Nvidia Quadro FX 1500 256 and I'm in a family gerneric model template. Purge did help thanks, but now it is very slow in project though. WWhub: yeap it took quite a time :-/ I can't find the meterials for that pattern or else I don't know how... where can I find those meterial? Gebber: Thanks, it's something like that i need, but i can't figure out how to make the material and snap it to a fence
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That's a lot to ask of that computer. You need to do a little research on opacity maps for materials. this will save you a ton of time, especially on that PC. Oh and think about at least upgrading your RAM to 4 gb
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Like Gebber and WW told you, use materials (images) to do that, one to the "Bump" (generic) and the other to "Cutouts" (Alpha channel), check here: http://www.cgtextures.com/
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Thanks for the respond. The problem is that it is a computer at my school. But the idea about materials did help my thanks alot. And nice website.
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