The Revit Platform's Performance

I consistently get question on Revit Platform Hardware Requirements and Revit Platform Model Optimization and Best Practices. The Revit platform's performance can depend as much on the knowledge, skill, and practices of its users as on the hardware environment provided for the software. To address both of these areas, the Revit platform team has assembled this collection of hardware requirements, recommendations, and modeling best practices as researched by both internal development and our community of dedicated customers. Just as no two buildings are identical, no two building models are identical in the tactics and strategies that will yield the most robust performance. Nonetheless, the recommendations that follow are designed as a set of tools to be selected singly or in combination to help produce in a timely fashion models that are consistent, computable, and communicative of design intent. Many people on the Revit platform team from Quality Assurance, Development, Consulting, and Product Management contributed to this document, but a number of recommendations arose from the community of Revit-based application users. These users generously contributed their time and expertise to their peers in a number of forums, and urged Autodesk to help share their knowledge with an even wider audience. As always, our thanks go to our customers, who are part of the team helping to improve the Revit platform with every release through their insightful comments and suggestions.  

I have attached a Document that covers Platform Hardware Requirements and Recommendations; Detailed Hardware Recommendations; Operating Systems; Network Recommendations; Remote Desktop Sharing; User Group Comments; Revit Platform Model Optimization and Best Practices; Revit Structure 2010 Software Optimization and Best Practices; Revit MEP 2010 Software Optimization and Best Practices; Interacting with Autodesk Support  

Please read the following document: Download Model_performance_technical_note_revit_2010

This is must read for Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010, Autodesk Revit Structure 2010, and Autodesk Revit MEP 2010.

Comments

[Peter Wurdinger]

Yes, I downloaded and read htat document by Autodesk, and laughed at it when I was done. I find the minimum requirements that they suggest to be Neanderthal. I would point out that they should truly not recommend running a workstation for Revit anywhere near the minimums. I found that you should plan to spend decent money for a great workstation to really get the full potential of Revit 2010.