Revit vs. AutoCAD/ADT - File size?

[Anonymous]

I saw the small post a while back, but I was curious if anyone had any
additional information on this. If you have any info to share regarding the
the total file size of a AutoCAD or ADT project compared to the total file
size of a similar Revit project, I'd sure appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I have no "hard" numbers as it is difficult to quantify unless you have done
the exact same project in both ADT & Revit. But comparatively, I would say
that they are about equal assuming you add together all the fragmented
construct, element and sheet files from ADT. At least this is what I have
found.

"pkirill" wrote in message
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I saw the small post a while back, but I was curious if anyone had any
additional information on this. If you have any info to share regarding the
the total file size of a AutoCAD or ADT project compared to the total file
size of a similar Revit project, I'd sure appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I recently went to this Revit seminar where the speaker from Autodesk said
to take the number of sheets and multiply it by .75 and that's the number of
mb the file size should be. So if you have 200 sheets then your file size
should be about 150 mb. I don't know if it's correct but the guy really
knew his stuff.


"Mike Sinclair" wrote in message
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I have no "hard" numbers as it is difficult to quantify unless you have done
the exact same project in both ADT & Revit. But comparatively, I would say
that they are about equal assuming you add together all the fragmented
construct, element and sheet files from ADT. At least this is what I have
found.

"pkirill" wrote in message
news:5329468@discussion.autodesk.com...
I saw the small post a while back, but I was curious if anyone had any
additional information on this. If you have any info to share regarding the
the total file size of a AutoCAD or ADT project compared to the total file
size of a similar Revit project, I'd sure appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

It is not apples to apples, but if all you are trying to do is plan your
budget for hard drive purchases, then they are comparable. Depending on your
settings, either could be more or less. I did the same project in ADT and
Revit Building for my books. ADT weighed in around 9 mb. The Revit version
is around 8 mb. The two books cover similar topics, but not exactly the
same. The models do vary quite a bit actually. But this is the closest I
have to something done in both platforms. If you save the default 3 backups
for Revit, then it will need three times more hard drive. ADT only saves one
backup per file. Naturally with both, once you have made the "real" nightly
backup, you can delete old unneeded BAK (ADT) files or .001 (Revit) back
files. However, as you work you will need the HD space to accommodate them.

Hope that helps.


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[Anonymous]

Great information - thanks everybody!


"pkirill" wrote in message
news:5329468@discussion.autodesk.com...
I saw the small post a while back, but I was curious if anyone had any
additional information on this. If you have any info to share regarding the
the total file size of a AutoCAD or ADT project compared to the total file
size of a similar Revit project, I'd sure appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Hi Paul,
I bought your book for Revit, and I'm in the third chapter & loving it so far. I'm very interested in your opinion about these two products (ADT / Revit) since you've completed the same project in both . My question to you is, if you worked on you own and you were asked to design a custom residence or a light commercial building, which product would you buy for yourself/company, ADT or Revit? Why? which do you enjoy using the most?

Thanks,
Eric

[Anonymous]

Paul wants to sell both his books about ADT and Revit, so I can guess his
answer: "Both programs are very good".

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wrote in message news:5410239@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi Paul,
I bought your book for Revit, and I'm in the third chapter & loving it so
far. I'm very interested in your opinion about these two products (ADT /
Revit) since you've completed the same project in both . My question to you
is, if you worked on you own and you were asked to design a custom residence
or a light commercial building, which product would you buy for
yourself/company, ADT or Revit? Why? which do you enjoy using the most?

Thanks,
Eric

[JeffreyMcGrew]

Once you start using Worksets, these backup files in Revit go away, and are replaced by a backup folder instead which depending upon how many workset backups you set your Project to keep can grow to be quite large.

However, when you're working with Worksets you can also compress the central file. This will sometimes reduce it as much as 25%-30% or more.

But from what I've seen the two are about the same in regards to space. Sometimes Revit comes in slightly under. but there's a lot more 'sticker shock' with Revit. Projects can grow into the 150 meg range or more sometimes, and when you see that as one big file, well, it does make your heart skip. But when using Worksets, it's not loading that whole file into memory when you open it, so it's mostly an issue for your IT staff to complain to you about...

Jeffrey McGrew