I've done quite a bit of internet searching to find some advice on how to get my 550+MB file under control but so far I haven't come up with anything that I can actually use.
I'm working on a LARGE (65K sq ft) private residence and we need to incorporate a lot of detail work which means lots of families (both external and in-place) and basically custom everything. We are working on a presentation with the client right now and just over the past few weeks the file size jumped about 200MB because of all the modeling we've been doing.
It is not realistic to split the house into multiple files (although we did build the topo in a separate file and link that in) and I need all the custom families & detailing.
We are having significant performance issues lately (5 min STC times, panning around even in plans is laggy, forget trying to work in a view with shadows turned on, having to restart Revit every hour or so because every views becomes wireframe, etc.).
I am concerned that as this project continues to move forward and we add even more detail to it (we haven't even started CDs yet) that the file is going to keep growing to a point where it's unusable. I can't afford to lose all this work!
FYI we have 6 people all working simultaneously on the file which is hosted on Revit Server.
Does anyone have any advice/best practices? Could it be a hardware issue (we all have 16GB of RAM and seem to fill all of the requirements for graphics cards, etc. that Autodesk recommends).
Thanks in advance, I'm really hoping AUGI can help me!
Jessica