Autodesk Revit Architecture

[#1]

We are currently looking to move from ADT to Revit and have heard rumor that Revit cannot handle large projects. Sometimes we do large Medical and Educational projects that involve 300 to 400 thousand square feet with over 1000 rooms with doors, windows, equipment, and finishes. Almost 50 pages of architectural drawings (200 pages total). What are the practical extents of Revit with large projects? What are the largest projects you've done in Revit and does it start to bog down. How many worksets make your large projects manageable?

Thanks

[#2]

Freedom Tower is being done in Revit. That should answer your question.


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We are currently looking to move from ADT to Revit and have heard rumor that
Revit cannot handle large projects. Sometimes we do large Medical and
Educational projects that involve 300 to 400 thousand square feet with over
1000 rooms with doors, windows, equipment, and finishes. Almost 50 pages of
architectural drawings (200 pages total). What are the practical extents of
Revit with large projects? What are the largest projects you've done in
Revit and does it start to bog down. How many worksets make your large
projects manageable?

Thanks

[#3]

I have done D&D's for an ornate, 14 story mixed use building; large by my
firm's standards. I have not used worksets however. My system is an AMD
3200(?) with 3 GIGs of ram. It does seem to bog down a bit but then I
realize changes are propogated throughout the building set.

-Jawknee 99

wrote in message news:5238989@discussion.autodesk.com...
We are currently looking to move from ADT to Revit and have heard rumor that
Revit cannot handle large projects. Sometimes we do large Medical and
Educational projects that involve 300 to 400 thousand square feet with over
1000 rooms with doors, windows, equipment, and finishes. Almost 50 pages of
architectural drawings (200 pages total). What are the practical extents of
Revit with large projects? What are the largest projects you've done in
Revit and does it start to bog down. How many worksets make your large
projects manageable?

Thanks

[#4]

It's not that large project can't be done in Revit. It's that you have to know how to do a large project in Revit to make it successful. With AutoCAD, everything was so broken up into little DWG's that this wasn't as big of an issue. With more 3D-based tools, like Revit, or heck even 3DStudio, efficient model management is something that is vital for large projects to not bog down.

I'd recommend that you pick a smaller, easy project type that your team is familiar with as your first Revit project. Ehter that or get some experienced help, someone that's helped large projects out, so you know what to do (and what not to do). Also come back here and ask questions, there are a few folks here that post pretty regularly that have done large projects in Revit...

[#5]

This is 10000000% correct!


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It's not that large project can't be done in Revit. It's that you have to
know how to do a large project in Revit to make it successful. With AutoCAD,
everything was so broken up into little DWG's that this wasn't as big of an
issue. With more 3D-based tools, like Revit, or heck even 3DStudio,
efficient model management is something that is vital for large projects to
not bog down.

I'd recommend that you pick a smaller, easy project type that your team is
familiar with as your first Revit project. Ehter that or get some
experienced help, someone that's helped large projects out, so you know what
to do (and what not to do). Also come back here and ask questions, there are
a few folks here that post pretty regularly that have done large projects in
Revit...

[#6]

Jeff is absolutely correct. He is given you sage and sound advice.

Here are my two cents to add:
1. Pick a project type that your firm is familiar with.
2. Chose a project that is a bit smaller (for your pilot project).
3. Chose people on the team, and keep the team size smaller, that are
interested in the software program.
4. Set a reasonable timeline to complete the work. You will spend more
time in modeling, but less time in documentation.
5. Training in the product is crucial to success.

David Haynes, AIA
Ideate, Inc.
www.ideateinc.com

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It's not that large project can't be done in Revit. It's that you have to
know how to do a large project in Revit to make it successful. With AutoCAD,
everything was so broken up into little DWG's that this wasn't as big of an
issue. With more 3D-based tools, like Revit, or heck even 3DStudio,
efficient model management is something that is vital for large projects to
not bog down.

I'd recommend that you pick a smaller, easy project type that your team is
familiar with as your first Revit project. Ehter that or get some
experienced help, someone that's helped large projects out, so you know what
to do (and what not to do). Also come back here and ask questions, there are
a few folks here that post pretty regularly that have done large projects in
Revit...

[#7]

We are working on some large projects and are breaking them down into work sets.
1. Keep people from stepping on each other.
2. Load only what is needed for work; this will speed up work.
3. Very large projects might be broken down into separate Revit models and then link them together as needed.