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Daily Use:
  • Always open from the central file. Never from local.
  • Save local, then save to central every half hour.
  • Save to central releasing worksets and close Revit when going to lunch or leaving your desk for an extend amount of time. Use the pulldown menu rather than the save buttons. The save buttons don't persent you with the option to relase elements. Borrowed elemants will be returned, but check out items remain checked out.
  • Reduce the number of open view windows(Window>Close hidden windows), especially perspective views which require more system resources.
  • Use the Move command to move large numbers of objects, instead of dragging the objects.
  • Don’t drag components instead, modify temporary dimensions and use the align tool. CTRL+ Drag will copy objects more quickly than copying and then pasting the objects by using CTRL+C and CTRL+V.
  • Simplify sketches when creating profiles for geometric shapes. The number of vertices in a sketch loop, as well as the number of entities in a sketch, affects performance when using lines. Use nested families instead.
  • Zoom in tightly around the part of the view where you are working. This will reduce snapping and display calculations.
  • Re-Start Revit at least 3 times a day (maybe just at lunch). Programs don’t always unload memory space they are no longer using. By closing Revit, you free up these unloaded slots of memory.
  • Limit the locking of objects (unless necessary). Pin an element (with Edit - Pin) to keep it from moving, rather than creating a locked dimension or alignment. Locked dimensions or alignments don't keep an element from moving. Locked dimensions or alignments lock one element to another so that when one element moves, they both move. This can slow performance. Pinned object can still be moved, however you will get a warning when trying to move the object.

Speeding up Geometry:
  • Turn off shadows (for all views, and especially during printing unless needed for a print).
  • Start with generic objects and types (walls, floors, etc.). Then get more specific as necessary and as the project progresses.
  • If you have curtain wall/store front; turn off the mullions in the visibility settings and turn them back on when its only time to print will.
  • Turn everything possible into a component that is loaded into the project. Do not use line work or grouped linework.
  • Replace complex families(like 3D families) with simpler families(like 2d families), until the complex families are needed later by the design. For example, use Select All Instances in the browser, and change the 3D family instances to 2D family instances.
  • Make components instead of groups or in place families. Avoid in-place families when ever possible. Anything that repeats more than once should NOT be an in-place family.
  • In views disable visibility (by category or workset) of elements you don't need, such as furniture. In elevation and in 3D views; use the Visibility dialog box or Phasing functionality to disable visibility.
  • In section and elevation views, set the back clipping plane to exclude as much of the model as possible without changing the displayed image.
  • In plan and elevation views, disable the display of the 3D geometry of complex 3D families. Instead, create simplified 2D representations for display in plan and elevation views.


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