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This tip is more aimed at those of you that create consumer products although I am guessing several of you that don`t necessarily design consumer products will be able to take advantage of the tip. The other day I was designing something and needed to take a flat face and replace it with a slight dome. If you look at most consumer products, they often have close to planer faces although they often have a very slight dome on them that can be difficult to create. It is possible to use a “loft to point” to achieve this although I wanted a little more control. I ended up running across an interesting work flow that is very easy and gives me the look I often want. This tip has already found several great uses for me and I thought it might be of use to some of you. I will use this on a very basic box to give you an idea of the technique.

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Manufacturing Community

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I have a fairly simple early-schematic model. I started out by importing (linking) the autocad site plan and then working off of that. Then, it was decided that there would be two identical buildings on the site (at least for now), so I decided to link the building model into a site twice, to save on modeling time.
The problem is: after I imported the site plan, the file was loading really slowly, so I went back to the autocad drawing and discovered that it contained raster images that were turned off, making it a large file. I deleted and purged the images in the autocad file, then went back to Revit – no change, still slow loading. So I went into revit and purged decals and checked to see that there were no raster images attached. The file is still pretty large, like 27megs for a +/- 20,000sf building that has basically walls, floors and roofs, no groups, and one repeated truss family, and it is taking about 5 minutes to open.

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AUGI Discussion Forum

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