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terealva

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My understanding is that a model can be opened in both 32 and 64 bit operating systems.

Can you have your central model be in a 32 bit operating system and have a local file in a 64 bit operating system or viceversa?

Can you have your architectural model in a 64 bit operating system and your consultant links in 32 bit operating system?

We are trying to test a 64 bit operating system to see the benefits of it. The way we want to test it is having one person work on a model for a couple of weeks, but only that one person would be working on a 64 bit operating system. The rest of the people that would be working on the same model would be working on a 32 bit operating system. I'm wondering if that's possible at all.

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I've talked to Mr Spot about this and he was on the beta version before 2010 came out.  Maybe he will respond later but as I understand it, both 32 & 64 can share same central ... it's a file ... it's a file ... it's a file - doesn't matter.  And that answers most of your questions. 

Speed is a different issue and as I understand it, most of the time it will only show up in rendering.  The big difference will be performance on large projects.  With 32 systems... I think we are pushing it with 150+/- meg files - depending on links and worksets.

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files are not operating system dependant. if your working with very large files, there are files that you will be able with your 64-bit OS that will not open with your 32-bit OS for variest rasons. but that dosen't seem to be a problem hre.

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