The last day of classes started off quite well. The first class, on handling finish plans in Revit, was quite interesting. The instructor came up with the idea of using areas to create floor finish plans. Quite interesting really...all the power of splitting faces and painting. Materials, but with none of the hassle of nesting your split lines.
The second class was fantastic. At Perkins + Will, they use server class machines with terminal server plus to provide high powered Revit capabilities for thei users. A 12 processor, each processor either dual or quad core, server with 64 gigs of RAM can host, according to their testing, up to 12-14 users. The benefit, the RAM is dynamically allocated to the processes, users, which need it. So if you are doing something RAM intensive in Revit, if you need 16 or more gigs of RAM to do it efficiently, you get it.
They also came up with a way of evaluating the potential size and complexity of a model and of determining how many people are needed on the project. Interesting stuff. They are also actively studying the impact of what they call lonely BIM, some involvement of stakeholders, and social BIM, heavy active involvement of all stakeholders throughout the process, on key portions of the design process. The findings are quite staggering.
My next class is starting...time to go.
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