This forces windows to spread the load across your CPU, maybe I’m imagining it but I found that if I didn’t do this all Revit processes seemed to share the same few cores without doing this my 6 core/12 thread Xeon CPU sat at around 12% utilisation where as if I forced each instance of Revit to use certain cores I could push my CPU usage towards 80% utilisation. I highly recommend selecting each instance of Revit that you have open and setting the CPU affinity in task manager. If you have a fast multi-core machine, you can set more than one file to import at a time. In all my testing, Revit appears to use 2 cores at most when importing IFC files. They will be able to split large projects into smaller chunks or limit what elements are being exported from ArchiCAD so that the heavy lifting your hardware needs to perform is more manageable. 5 or 10 minutes spent on the phone with the architect might save hours of time for both of you down the track. ![]() or more importantly answer the phone! Don’t let problems go unsolved sitting in someone’s inbox. ![]() It’s very important to keep an open line of communication with your architect. You need to make sure that you clearly communicate this not just with your engineering team but with your architecture design team as well. IFC imports can be anywhere from almost instant to a few days. I will specifically be talking about my experiences working with IFC outputs from ArchiCAD.ĭepending on the size of the project, the process of importing and IFC file into Revit could take a very long time. IFC stands for Industry Foundation Class, it is a platform neutral file format that is not controlled by any of the software vendors.įor those that haven’t worked with IFC files before, there are a few things you need to keep in mind before you jump headlong into working on a project where IFC is used for collaboration. ![]() In Australia and likely elsewhere, a lot of people believe that BIM = Revit, however this is certainly not the case there are many other software packages out there and if you need to collaborate with these software packages, chances are you will need to use IFC files.
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