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Hey guys,
So I'm working on a personal project, re-doing a school project which was to design and document a sports centre. Did all that design jazz and been modelling it in Revit, and the roof is the biggest critical asthestic part of the building, it's a giant curved roof and pretty much defines the centre, so I want to show it off the best I can when I go to render. One problem....
I modelled it doing a Model-In-Place Component, selecting Roof, and doing a sweep and selecting the roof profile (to get the ribs showing). I then copied and paste this over and over to cover the length of the roof. It looks great, the issue but however is it has slowed down Revit massively. Any view that shows the roof, it takes 3-4 minutes to load, and a lot of the time Revit stops responding. So I hid it while I did more modelling, that's fine.
I wanted to do a render just to see how it will look, so I got the view all set up and that jazz, went to render and after 5-10 minutes of nothing, the computer just stops and restarts on itself. I'm running an Intel(R) Rcore i5-3210 CPU @ 2.5-GHz, with 12.0GB of Installed memory, using Windows 8. I just used the Roof Extrusion option and there is no slow down, it renders with no issues etc.
So I guess my question is, what can I do to reduce this roof eating too much memory? By that what can I do modelling wise, I know the obivious answer is upgrade the computer but I want to know if there is some modelling trick or any tips to stop this crashing/restarting but still have the roof with the actual profile modelled.
Thanks
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Model in place elements are best used as single use. If you need multiple instances, you should create a seperate family.
I have not done this yet but I believe you can now make a seperate family from a family that was created in place.
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