To lock, or not to lock. That is the question?

[Les Therrien]

Hello again!

I have a project that I went a little lock happy on everything. I was told that it may have been the cause for a little bit of Revit's sluggishness with this project.

What items are you finding important to lock or not?

Also, does the detail level setting in the views affect performance?

I am obviously looking to maximize my speed here! Time is money.

Les

[sbrown]

Start off not locking anything, revit automatically aligns stacked walls and other types of alignement. Only add locks if you have to constrain something. I try not to align and lock much of anything anymore, I used too but its way to much processor power.

[Les Therrien]

Scott,

you've indirectly solved a different problem I was having. I did not know that stacked wall automatically aligned. That explains the psycho footings I was getting and why they would not go where I'd place them!

[aggockel50321]

What I find works best for myself is at the beginning of the project, to lock a building centerline ref plan or grid or wall. Then as I place objects dimension them in directions I don't want them to move & lock those dimensions. Seems to work well, at least when I'm three levels above & try to move a constrained wall, I get a "constraints not satisfied" reminder.