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A5Len

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After doing an initial project in revit I am still not 100% convinced of its merit. I acknowledge that it is a great program that has its moments when nothing could compare. But it also had quite a few times when i was ready to throw in the towel. Most of these moments revolved around saving and save to central. Plus revit definately had more then its fair share of file crashes and the need to 'manually upgrade, contact your reseller'. However the above list could be put down to the possibly of inadiquate hardware, although it is on a brand new machine.

That said there are still a few things that were frustrating, coming from an Autocad background. My biggest gripe being the amount of time it could potentially take to model complex items in 3d to enable sections and elevations to be represented properly, items which could just as easily have been drawn in specific 2d views in a fraction of the time. My point being that all connections, joins etc need to be modeled in 3d detail in order for the elevations and sections to be drawn correctly. The flow on from this is that in certain cases making changes, albeit only once, to the model mid project would take longer then adjusting the same change on multiple views in Autocad. At this point i will admit that we deal with relativly small buildings at our firm.

Any thoughts would be interesting to hear 

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We started with 8.1 and are now on 9.0.  I'm working on my 3rd project I've never had REVIT crash.  The largest project file so far is around 120 meg and we have 5 people working on it.  Saving to central has never been a problem either.  Sounds like you may have hardware issues.

Your comments about modeling sound like you need some more time yet to discover when to model and when not to.  There are some here that still have not found that out and I may be one of those.   I tend to want to model as much as I can because I hate changing linework. 

As you work at modeling, you will find that it only gets faster and the rewards are great.  It's better to model anything major that may appear in multiple views but you don't have to model ever small detail like connections.  Keep in mind your scale and the coarse - medium - fine settings.  Let the model generate your small scale plans-elevations and sections.  When you get to your callouts, then you want to add your 2d linework, edit cut profile and components overtop of the 3d.  Also remember, anything you add in the larger blowup, can be copied to clipboard then pasted into the same place in the smaller scaled view.

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