I know that there is information out there on the best practice for working with AutoCAD libraries within Revit, but after several searches and many, many posts and articles I am still lost. I posted the same question on Autodesk's Discussion Group, but I've had better luck lately finding solutions here.
I've read Autodesk's Technical Bulletin on Revit 2010 file performance, so I believe that importing DWGs and exploding them will most likely destroy the universe (or atleast our files.) I even tried a little experiment with a clean Revit project file and watching the file size inflate as I imported a DWG, and then exploded it. I also tried exploding it in a separate file, grouping the information, and THEN pasting the group into my test file, and the least file growth was caused by simply importing a DWG (which doesn't give us much flexibility when we need to edit it.)
So, are all you experts out there really importing/linking into separate files and placing detail lines/model lines/walls/etc. over the imported/linked components? There's a wealth of DWGs on manufacturer's websites that we use to plug into our details, but how can we work with their DWG's without killing our file sizes?
Are there any improvements to RAC 2011 that affect how users are working with imported content?
Thanks.
- Alex
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