BEST PRACTICES FOR LINKING TO REVIT

[foutjm]

can someone give me some best practices here.

i have heard ,

never link an RCP file

always unify your scans and link that RCS file.

so i broke up my RCP into different regions and sent out Unified RCS files and am now linking them over a network.

the Revit files reside on Revit Server and the RCS reside on a different network drive on the WAN.

i am having serious problems just zooming in on a plan, spins for an hour.

is it recommended to link from a local drive?

RCP or Unified RCS best for link?

[ryan.frenz]

The ReCap engine is configurable to use the disk and/or RAM based on available resources.  However, different Autodesk products use these capabilities differently.  So I can't speak specifically to Revit performance.  But in general, unified data on a local hard drive will perform best.  This is due to the elimination of overlapping data and faster access to points not yet in RAM.

Obviously your results may vary based on a number of factors:

- disk and/or network speed (if data is on a network drive)

- point/scan count and amount of redudnant data

- memory speed

- other external factors like graphics capability and size of Revit model

Hope this helps,

Ryan

[foutjm]

thanks for the reply. moved clouds to local hard drive and its fixed some of the issues. my cloud just looks really crappy.