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Manufacturers have to do a great job with their Autodesk Revit content to get it into the end-user’s hands.
Autodesk Revit family creation is a pretty complex task, and there are many things to get right if you want your content to be attractive to a BIM manager and make it into real-world Revit projects. Of course, there’s a lot of fail-safe ways to ensure your content never sees the light of a Revit-rendered day, and one is excessive file size. Yes, the model requires a certain level of detail to be geometrically useful, but the moment your over-detailed family starts impacting on the project performance, it’ll be history!
So - What kind of Autodesk Revit family file-size should we aim for? Well <1MB is commonly mentioned, but this is a bit misleading. A well-built 3MB family can perform better in a project than a poorly built 800KB family. The only safe way is to test it. I generally use a macro to place 1000+ instances (with varying types) of a family in an existing Autodesk Revit project and try switching between plan views and rotating the screen in coarse medium and fine views to see if it slows things down.
If you’ve done some testing and you need to reduce the file size of your families – here’s all the best tips from around the Revitsphere. The last one is spectacular!
Important note on tip 12 above: As well as helpfully removing some of the ‘history’ of the family this step will remove any embedded materials in the family file. So if you use this method and you want to provide materials with the content, you’d need to make the materials available in a separate Autodesk material library.
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