Archives For Infrastructure

Problem

Much of the “heavy lifting”  work in Revit is collaborative in nature, and thus not done exclusively at the desk. Indeed, the heaviest lifting, where the entire suite of A/E team models and resource files is loaded at once for coordination, can only be done at the desktop in a virtual meeting scenario. For a face to face Working Meeting or presentation, some variation on the conference room approach is likely the best scenario. However, historically conference rooms have gotten lower spec’d machines or older hand-me-downs, and often been provisioned with low resolution projectors suitable for PowerPoint presentations and perhaps web browsing. Efficient use of Revit in this situation requires provisioning the conference room with hardware at least as capable as that at the desktop, and ideally even more so.

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Problem

When in comes to infrastructure, at the desktop, in the server room, and the connections between, Revit is a very different animal from AutoCAD. Once upon a time AutoCAD required, or at least used, all the computing horsepower that could be thrown at it. But through the early to mid 2000′s AutoCAD was no longer a horsepower monger and a simple $500 desktop machine could be expected to adequately support AutoCAD for the majority of needs. Revit changes this picture, and again the AEC profession requires a “professional grade” workstation in order to get reasonable performance and efficiency from the software.

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