Producing As Builts from Point Clouds - Very Slow

[Anonymous]

Hello,

We are producing As Builts from Scans on industrial buildings and I am using a dell super computer with 256gb ram, Intel Xeon 12 Core 3.20 GHZ but only a 512gb Nvme SSD.

I am experiencing extremely slow point cloud movement. I have separated the scans into 3 different scans but it still takes about 10- 15 seconds for it to load for me even just to select the scan.

Are there settings I can change, I have two external NVME  2TB samsung 970 EVO's That I can set up temp data if needed. I will eventually have these installed into the physical computer

I would love to know what all I can do to max out performance with 150+gb of point clouds because I will need to create 5+ more Revit computers for my company.

I just need to know what areas of the computer I can beef up. We are also wanting to eventually make virtual machines with their own SSD and GPU's. Has anyone done this and used Revit?

Any input is great!

Thanks,

[L.Maas]

Not sure what you exactly can do. But you are working with huge amount of data.

-Can you not simplify the point clouds?

-When working inside views, you can try to limit the amount of objects/points visible in the view (e.g scope boxes/crop views)

-Unload/hide some of the point clouds.

-Not all processes in Revit are multithreaded. So some processes will only use one core. In those cases faster processors with less cores could give better results. Not sure if this is the case for you.

-A rule of thumb is that the amount of local machine RAM required is approximately 20 times the size of your project file. So.....

So definitely look at file size reduction somewhere

[Anonymous]

Thank you!