Revit beta?

[Dave Jones]

could someone PM me the link to the Revit beta site? I received it by email but for some reason the link won't work out of Thunderbird and searching the Adesk site hasn't be successful. Thanks!

[iru69]

I don't believe the website is a secret. Depending on whether you've participated before, you may need to sign up as a new user.

https://beta.autodesk.com

[Dave Jones]

I don't believe the website is a secret. Depending on whether you've participated before, you may need to sign up as a new user.

https://beta.autodesk.com

one never knows about how much to say or not say when the topic is beta testing...

that link is for the AutoCAD futures site not the Revit beta. There is a new round of Revit beta testing happening and I would like to get involved.

[twiceroadsfool]

No. That link is for all things beta, Revit and AutoCAD and Max and Civil, etc. Inclusion in to the programs unlocks the rest of the site, etc.

[iru69]

The link is for all autodesk betas AFAIK. You have to include Revit in your preferences of what you'd like to participate in. It's up to them to decide if they want to include you as a beta participant. If they do, they will (should) send you email with instructions... however, depending on their time-line, it may be months before you receive an invitation.

that link is for the AutoCAD futures site not the Revit beta. There is a new round of Revit beta testing happening and I would like to get involved.

[Dave Jones]

The link is for all autodesk betas AFAIK. You have to include Revit in your preferences of what you'd like to participate in. It's up to them to decide if they want to include you as a beta participant. If they do, they will (should) send you email with instructions... however, depending on their time-line, it may be months before you receive an invitation.

I got the invitation it's just that the link they gave me didn't work. I've been beta testing AutoCAD since about '92 so I guess now they're going to give me an opportunity to pound on Revit. Should be more fun. Acad testing was getting rather boring :p

[Dave Jones]

No. That link is for all things beta, Revit and AutoCAD and Max and Civil, etc. Inclusion in to the programs unlocks the rest of the site, etc.

yeah, I figured that out. Because of my long time AutoCAD participation the link took me directly to the AutoCAD Futures page. I had to back up a page to find the Revit beta area. As it turns out one cannot beta test Revit on the same machine that has a regular working version installed on it so that lets me out as I don't have another machine that I can use just for beta testing. Thanks for the info

[twiceroadsfool]

VirtualBox is free, if you have another Operating System lying around. I use my actual Production machine, with Vbox running Win-7 64 on the Vbox. The only hang up there, is it eats an INSANE amount of memory, with two instances of Windows 7 running, LOL.

[ron.sanpedro]

VirtualBox is free, if you have another Operating System lying around. I use my actual Production machine, with Vbox running Win-7 64 on the Vbox. The only hang up there, is it eats an INSANE amount of memory, with two instances of Windows 7 running, LOL.

You can also throw a second hard drive in your machine and dual boot. I have an old 80GB drive in my work machine, as well as a VM on the Mac at home. Much prefer the VM approach, but yeah, ya gotta have one beast of a machine to run two copies of Windows 7 x64 with enough RAM in the VM for production simulation. That said, for testing the basics a VM with 32 bit Windows 7 Home and 2GB of RAM will do the trick. It won't let you test full models, but you can test specific functionality.
Better than nothing. Indeed, better than some of the old junkers people are still running Revit 2011 on as production machines. ;)

Gordon

[twiceroadsfool]

I have trouble with it, with the 8GB i have in this machine, to be honest. I have to keep several clones of the Virtual Machine made. Because if i *forget* and keep ANY application running on the main machine while the VB Machine is crunching hard in a piece of beta software, itll peg the machine right out of memory. And- for some reason, on this particular machine, it causes a hard restart. No shut down, no anything. Just power off, then power on. Trouble is, it completely corrupts the VB Machine when it does it.

My collegue with the exact same machine and exact same setup isnt experiencing that, so its a bit hairy. If i had to do it again, given that knowledge, id probably go dual boot, LOL. But, its just because its frustrating to have to keep redoing stuff when it tanks.

[iru69]

You might give VMWare Player a try. I believe it's free to use.
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/


I have trouble with it, with the 8GB i have in this machine, to be honest...