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Revit Hardware - Small Office - Bunch of questions

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ronsarlo
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Revit Hardware - Small Office - Bunch of questions

Hi there,

 

2 questions.


I'm looking to build myself a new workstation for Revit.

From my research, I've heard that revit is frequency-bound?  And with poor coding for modern multi-threaded computing?

Meaning I'm better off with less cores (and a slight overclock?)

And aside from driving the monitors, there isn't much hardware processing going on the GPU side (except for 3D renders?)

Is this true?  And there's absolutely zero advantage to shelling out for a workstation GPU?

 

I'm currently looking at an i7-6700k, with a midrange AMD GPU.

 

 

 

As for the setup with our small office,

There's currently 2 drafters, scaling up to 4 within the next year.

What sort of processing power does the central computer require?

What about the networking requirements?

 

I also do work from home sometimes, so I'm not sure how that affects things.

I don't think the office has any sort of outside access for the moment.
Do we need to figure out some sort of VPN?

 

 

Are there any suggestions or guides you can recommend?

It's difficult not knowing what knowledge I don't know.

 

 

 

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Anonymous
als Antwort auf: ronsarlo

Ronsarlo,

 

You know there is a page from Autodesk where you can find the requirements for Revit; https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles...

 

It's more about the complexity of your models where you can find the best solutions.

 

The higher your CPU, the better Revit will respond.

You dont need more cores, 'cause only when you're gonna make some renders, Revit will run on one core.

 

For your collaboration issue;

 

Maybe it is the cheapest option to first try with linked revit models so you can work at home with your local files.

Otherwise look for a revit server.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Job van Hardeveld

Cadac Group AEC

 

 

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ronsarlo
als Antwort auf: Anonymous

Thank you sir for that link.
It never occurred to me dig into Autodesk's own requirement page.

Sounds like I will have to keep in mind keep complexity to a minimum.

 

 

Since my team has both Structural and Architectural in-house, I currently have all discipline in a single file.

Thus far, I haven't needed to link files.

And since it's currently just me, no worksharing either.

 

 

You mentioned Revit Server,
I'm skimming through this:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/EN...

At what point do I need this over just using a central file on the network?

I'm not quite following why this is necessary.

 

I've heard mention of using a NAS as a budget machine to host the central model.

http://therevitkid.blogspot.ca/2016/04/my-300-revit-server.html

Any thoughts on this?

At what point does the hardware holding the central file need more power?

Or is it pretty much only file storage/transfer?

 

 

 

thank you so much for your help.

 

 

 

 

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loboarch
als Antwort auf: ronsarlo


@ronsarlo wrote:

Thank you sir for that link.
It never occurred to me dig into Autodesk's own requirement page.

Sounds like I will have to keep in mind keep complexity to a minimum.

 

 

Since my team has both Structural and Architectural in-house, I currently have all discipline in a single file.

Thus far, I haven't needed to link files.

And since it's currently just me, no worksharing either.

 

 

You mentioned Revit Server,
I'm skimming through this:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/EN...

At what point do I need this over just using a central file on the network?

I'm not quite following why this is necessary.

 

I've heard mention of using a NAS as a budget machine to host the central model.

http://therevitkid.blogspot.ca/2016/04/my-300-revit-server.html

Any thoughts on this?

At what point does the hardware holding the central file need more power?

Or is it pretty much only file storage/transfer?

 

 

 

thank you so much for your help.

 

 

 

 


I am not the person who first offered up a response, but I will throw in my responses to your 2 questions.

 

Revit Server:

 

Revit server is a solution you8 can use when you have more than one physical office working on 1 central model. For example a San Francisco and a New York office working on the same model. Revit server allows this to happen. If everyone working on the central model is in the same office just worksharing will be fine. Another option beyond Revit server if you have people in separate physical locations working on the same model, you can use Collaboration for Revit. This is a service you subscribe to on a per user basis to host the model in the cloud and project participants can be in multiple geographic locations, as long as they can access the internet they can access the project. This can save IT investment to set up Revit server and can address "cross domain" issues you might have with Revit Server implementations. 

 

 

 

NAS:

 

This can work as a storage location for central models. The server does little in the worksharing environment beyond storage/access. There are some minor other traffic transactions needed to lock access to different parts of the model as they are used, but those are tiny transactions. NAS is probably not ideal as there may be a slight performance hit with these locking transactions, but it is probably not significant on smaller sized projects with only a few people working on them.



Jeff Hanson
Principal Content Experience Designer
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dgorsman
als Antwort auf: ronsarlo

There is always a benefit to having multiple cores, but you don't need to go crazy.  The rendering engine is CPU based as is analysis, so if you plan on doing a lot of on-computer rendering or simulation you might justify a dual hex- or oct-core Xeon CPU system.  But no need to go for something like a quad 10-core Xeon system, for most users a fast hex core system will do fine, and that include i5 or i7 based systems.  Don't skimp on RAM.

 

That's not to say a decent video card isn't a good idea, as it handles your display.  Again, no need for something like a Titan X, a mid-range card will do.  I have a preference for NVidia-based cards, they seem to have fewer problems and better support for things like PhysX, Mental Ray, and so on if you do more than just Revit.

 

NAS systems have a history of having problems with Autodesk software.  I'd avoid that.

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