So. It's almost 9pm here, working day started at 6am. Installing Revit on the laptop, started 2hrs ago. Almost there, but now hovering between 10b/s (yes b/s) and 1Mb/s, i.e 365 days (home in time for Christmas) to 1 hour, to complete. Laptop other apps locked up, posting from PC. It does this at the same stage "Library ..." Installing and getting operational any such product I'd say takes at least 6hrs. Field work starts at 6am tomorrow ... I've bought a boat and a chariot, so no need to send the free gifts of the same.
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Seems to be total lack of respect for the customer.
So. It's almost 9pm here, working day started at 6am. Installing Revit on the laptop, started 2hrs ago. Almost there, but now hovering between 10b/s (yes b/s) and 1Mb/s, i.e 365 days (home in time for Christmas) to 1 hour, to complete. Laptop other apps locked up, posting from PC. It does this at the same stage "Library ..." Installing and getting operational any such product I'd say takes at least 6hrs. Field work starts at 6am tomorrow ... I've bought a boat and a chariot, so no need to send the free gifts of the same
On one hand I'm no Autodesk fanboy, on the other hand, I'm not sure you can entirely blame the time on them with a 1Mbps connection 😉
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It was just in that "Library" part of the 6.4Gb download that the Mbps dropped so low - was half expecting to hear the old faithful dial-up-tone - otherwise it flared up to 15Mbps at times. So, I'm saying the throttle wasn't at my end.
Fairly certain it wouldn't have been autodesk, either, I think their entire backbone is Amazon Web Services (as is 1/3rd of the internet, give or take). I think corporate firewall can detect downloading from an FTP (or even a large file) and you're being throttled by your own IT infrastructure.?ÿ Happens to me all the time - especially during March madness.
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Edit, it NEVER happens at home.
BTW, FWIW, IMHO, Revit (house design) and Recap (photogrammetry processing) are quite good products from Autodesk. Add that to the great Civil 3D.?ÿ
BTW, FWIW, IMHO, Revit (house design) and Recap (photogrammetry processing) are quite good products from Autodesk. Add that to the great Civil 3D.?ÿ
LOL, consider yourself absolved by Autodesk.?ÿ Say three hail viewcubes and go and sin no more.?ÿ :)?ÿ I never could get the hang of Revit, should really spend some time on it.?ÿ Civil 3D handles surfaces better than just about anything I've ever seen - but it still stinks for day-to-day surveying.?ÿ Also, I think the program itself must be terribly bloated.?ÿ Carlson with IntelliCAD will run circles around it on a cheap laptop compared to C3D on an upgraded point cloud/UAV machine (128GB Ram, SSD, etc).?ÿ Except when Carlson/ICAD still once in a while blows up (not happening as much these days) - or when working with large complicated surfaces.
I got to grips with Revit in about 8 hours, entirely by following a privateer's Youtube video. It's thinking is nothing like AutoCAD / Civil 3D, so you have to learn new skills, but worth it. So after 8 hours I had a two storey house modelled up.
I've been told that Revit is the architect and building design version of cadd.
My only experience has been having a couple of architects sending me their design to fit on properties and some would and some would not because they could not plot the boundaries correctly from my drawings or property description.
I have had to twist their building locations to make them fit or chop off a few feet of some open space between house and detached garage/office settings.
They also told me that they could not export any sort of file that I could load in my Carlson software, that I took as they will not do that or that they do not know how to do that because they only sent me a paper copy of their design, which BTW, did not close when I attempted to use their drawing dimensions and compute a perimeter of their design.
I've laid out shopping malls, International Paper Mills sites and other really demanding construction sites that were easier than working from any architect drawing.
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Yes, I think that is correct about it being the architect and building version of CAD, but as said, it's not AutoCAD environment. You can draw pretty much exactly the same things in AutoCAD, but Revit is "dynamic" so for example you can move walls, windows and doors around and they just fit back into the model. Apparently you can export/import (possibly dynamic) to AutoCAD and Civil 3D, but that requires subscription to another Autodesk BIM product, which for us I would have thought should have been included in the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) Collection that we subscribe to - which includes Civil 3D, Revit, Recap, ... - seems strange they didn't include the addon that enables these to talk to each other.
