I recently had a client who came to me, unable to open a project from Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC). A quick clearing of their local ACC cache/files allowed the client to open the project, but it still took nearly 10 minutes to open. This wasn't entirely shocking due to the size of this project (700+ MB), but I thought "we can improve this". Based on how much was in the local ACC cache, I had a feeling this model hadn't had much maintenance. I recommended the basics - auditing and compacting - as well as reviewing linked content. There were quite a few items that Revit was unable to locate and load - likely long-abandoned items that were just adding to the opening time while Revit hunted for them. Not to mention their paths belonging to various project user's personal file folders.
As a cherry on top, I decided to run the model through Ideate Explorer to take a closer look. The thing that stood out to me the most was how quickly I was able to identify red-flag warnings as well as the quantity, something the native Revit warning tool doesn't do (see below). Nothing immediately stood out to me in the native warning list.
When I ran Ideate Explorer, I immediately saw 243 warnings for members with identical instances, which added bulk to the model and could cause issues with scheduling. The tool even lets me jump to a view that shows the elements in question. There are a million other things I can do with Ideate Explorer, but this was a quick, easy, and obvious win for cleaning up this model.
