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I 've been using revit off and on for about a year and have recently been working on a one story, 20,000 s.f. office building. I have been noticing that revit has been hanging up more and occasionally shutting down. I'm not sure if it is something I may be doing or if it is a computer related issue. I'm using a dell precision 390 with 2.13ghz e6400 processor, 2 gb of ram and a nVidia Quadro FX 3450. The file I'm working on now is at 50 mg and has about 20 drawing sheets in it. I have no idea if this is a normal size file for this type of a building. The concern I have is that we are about to start a big school job of 209,000 s.f. And don't what to experience the same issues on a larger scale. Does any one have any ideas on how I can improve my performance or how to prevent this from happening to our next job? JB
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A few possible solutions would be to audit the file, recreate your central file, and check your revit wanrnings. It could also be your network card if you are working on a server. Somehow some of the cards at our office got set to half so they were really chugging along when trying to save to central, etc. I am curently working on a 30,000 ft² 2 story classroom lab building. The file fluxtuates between 70 and 80 megs. I dont think that I would want to work on anything bigger in a single file if I could. For a 209,000 ft² I would split the campus up into wings or buildings to try to split up the file size. As a side note 2gb of ram is basically the min recomended by AutoDesk now. You could try upgradig but I doubt that you would see much of a performance boost. My best bet would be your revit warnings or a good old fashion audit. HTH Nick
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Thanks for the reply. I ran the Audit and purged out some unused families and notice that the file size is no down to about 38 mg. I am still having problems when trying to work in the file though. I opened my task manager and the cpu usage when trying to perform task in revit jumps up to 100% and stays there for a while. The memory usage stays fairly consistent at 750 - 800 mg. Does this mean that the processor or video card is having a hard time keeping up?
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Could be. I'm not up on my processors. I am running on a Core 2 6400 @ 2.13GHz. What does your processor usage look like when you arent runnng revit? It could be another program... You can also try turning off any anti virus, spyware or firewall programs you have. Sometimes they interfere with Revit. Nick
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As NKramer suggested, you should also review your warnings. Look under Tools/Review Warnings. If you have too many errors ... warnings you have ignored, REVIT will have problems like you have encountered. Check out the easy fixes first and fix them. Remember, you can use show and also find by element id number.
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Thanks for the help. I'll start going through to see if I can resolve some of those errors. I did notice that the errors were up to around sixty. I never knew about the error log. I hope now that were mindful of it we won't let those errors build up like that on our next job. Thanks again.
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Great tip about the errors. I'd used that a few times to clean up files, but I had no idea how much it impacted my regen time. Thanks WWHub!
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