Revit OpEd: In Search of a Side Door Managing Links

Revit OpEd: In Search of a Side Door Managing Links: I wrote about the Manage Links dialog yesterday. Something else has been bugging me about it so here's another post. I'd love a side door to...

Revit OpEd: Curtain Wall Panel - Edit in Place

Revit OpEd: Curtain Wall Panel - Edit in Place: You can edit a system panel in place. Yes that means you can select a curtain wall's system panel like Glass or Solid and then Edit-in-Place...

Revit OpEd: Dept. of Subtle - Load Type Properties - Linear Fo...

Revit OpEd: Dept. of Subtle - Load Type Properties - Linear Fo...: The Autodesk Wikihelp says that this is for graphic display only yet the Type Properties dialog offers a value to change using a structural...

Revit OpEd: Dept. of Echo - Type Catalog Formatting

Revit OpEd: Dept. of Echo - Type Catalog Formatting: Quick echo - David at Do U Revit? took the time to document how to format various parameters for inclusion in Type Catalogs. Nice effort, t...

Revit OpEd: Introducing Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 Shipp...

Revit OpEd: Introducing Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 Shipp...: I worked with Patrick Davis, Martin Tauer, Charlie Busa and Angela MacDonnell on the update to the previous book. I've been told the "my" co...

Beta tester needed - Worksets App

RevitIt.com is looking for some beta testers for a new app related to worksets. If you are interested and work with worksets on a daily basis please contact us at info@revitit.com

Repost revit Clinic - eTransmit for Revit User Survey

Our friendly folks with the eTransmit for Revit team asked that we post a little survey. If you have been using the eTransmit technology preview over on labs for Revit, this is for you!

Greetings!

We released the eTransmit for Revit Technology Preview almost a month ago. Since then, we’ve received a lot of great feedback and a number of suggestions for improvements.

Now we’d like to know which of these suggestions would be most useful to you. If you’ve been using the eTransmit for Revit Technology Preview, we’d appreciate it if you could participate in our user survey. It will take you about 20 minutes and is available here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/eTransmitForRevit

The data we collect will help us understand how you are using this technology preview and what is and isn’t working for you. In particular, as part of the survey we are inviting you to rank all of the suggestions we’ve received to date.

This survey is intended for people who have already tried out the eTransmit for Revit Technology Preview. If you haven’t tried it out yet, it’s not too late – you can download the technology preview from Autodesk Labs and the survey will remain open until at least mid-August.

Thanks in advance for your help! If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at:


Labs.Revit.eTransmit@autodesk.com.

- The eTransmit for Revit Technology Preview Team

Revit OpEd: Revit Content Standards - ANZRS

Revit OpEd: Revit Content Standards - ANZRS: "The Australia New Zealand Revit Standards (ANZRS) has been formally released. In March this year I wrote that they were drawing close to r..."

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Re-post Revitit.com - Parking

Parking in Revit?

By Blogger, on June 30th, 2011

You are probably wondering why we will be talking about Parking? This Parking is a Windows 7 features that (we believe) only happens on Intel i5 & i7 CPU Quad Core. It basically is a way for Windows to control power. It will put some CPU in “parking” mode if they are not needed. Thus reducing the power consumption but also… the power itself. What’s the point of having a Quad Core if Windows doesn’t use it to the fullest?
Since the 2012 platform now supports multi-threading on some tasks it would be nice to harness all the power of our machines for those tasks.
Here are the results of a non-scientific test conducted today (Open with audit a 2011 file and resave it. The file is fairly large and has several linked file in it)

With Parking enabled	With Parking disabled
20:52 mins	17:47 mins

Basically on those features alone we seem to get close to a 15% gain in performance.
Now… how do I disable the Parking feature.(Use at your own risk and make sure you backup the registry before)

• Open the Registry Editor
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• Run a search for that key : 0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583
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• Once you found one you want to make both ValueMax & ValueMin to 0
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• To do so, double-click the value and set it to 0 then click ok
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• Then go to Edit – Find Next and set the value to 0 again
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  • Repeat until you get the following message
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    • Click OK, Close the registry editor and restart Windows

To make sure it’s deactivated open the Windows Task Manager and click on Resource Monitor. Go to the CPU tab to see if any are “parked”
We would love to hear any feedback from you guys.

Re-post - evit OpEd: Autodesk Labs - eTransmit for Revit

Revit OpEd: Autodesk Labs - eTransmit for Revit: "Anyone who has to share their Revit project files with another entity knows that it can be a little tricky if you want them to have all the ..."