Jay Zallan Author: These are Jay B. Zallan’s professional passions: An intense and experienced Virtual Design and Construction, BIM Leader, Designer, Artist, and AEC technologist. Currently heading up VDC at Harley Ellis Devereaux, Jay brings unique and qualified insights into the business and creative processes of architecture, focusing on communication and collaboration. He brings proven strategies of leveraging technologies and building teamwork toward efficient project delivery. Jay has more than 20 years of architectural experience and enjoys a varied and diverse portfolio of Architecture and Art. Jay is an Autodesk Expert Elite member, President @ Los Angeles Revit Users Group, AUGIWorld magazine Revit Editor, and Graphic Standards’ BIM Advisory Board. He is a speaker at Autodesk University, Revit Technology Conference(s) and lecturer on Creativity & Architecture at the University of Southern California, Cal Poly, LACMA, as well as various AIA & CSI events. Get more information about Jay at or contact him at [email protected]. September 8th, 2016 What Is the Best Computer for Revit? What a moving target that question is! LOL What is today? Did Intel release a new chip? With this in mind, let’s look at the computer needs for three types of computer users: The Management, The Superstar, and The User. ![]() Adding to those few typologies let’s overlay the following general, but driving tactic: Get the most your budget allows! For Autodesk® Revit®, the search should include, if not begin, by doing the research into Autodesk’s “Systems requirements for Autodesk® Revit® products.” Consider that those specs are far below any actual acceptable workstation spec for The User, let alone The Superstar. Both CPU hardware as well as GPUs have useful tools on Autodesk’s site to start your research. Sep 10, 2018 - Some iMac Pro owners recommend installing a modified AMD driver from the following website to resolve the problem but we are unable to. Well, that doesn’t just allow you to pick the skills and put Revit to use. You must also be well acquainted to the tool. The tool is a design, modelling and development tool that is primaril. The GPU requirements as well as their drivers are a most important item to become aligned with the Autodesk recommended spec, which can be found on their “Certified Hardware” page by tapping into the Graphics Hardware portion. There’s a link to this tool on the SysReq page listed above also. Use the tool for ideas and then get shopping and benchmarking (or researching benchmarks). I suggest you steer clear of the ADSK “certified” cards if you can help it and only go with the “Recommended” choices. While I am at it, stick to the NVIDIA Quadro’s M or the more budget-conscious, though lesser, K series. Figure 1 The ADSK SysReqs can be found for 2008 through 2017 (at the time of this article, August 2016). Macintosh is spoken to there as well, though the Windows-based specs are quite strikingly more thorough, if not ultra conservative (IMHO a bit too weak, but we’ll get there). And since I will mostly be sidestepping the whole “Mac thing” herein, let’s look at the terse requirements for Mac usage: “Running Revit® products on a Mac Refer to the attached document about using Autodesk® Revit® software with Boot Camp®, part of Mac OS® X that enables you to install and run Microsoft Windows (and Windows-based applications) on a Mac® computer or with Parallels Desktop, a system utility available from Parallels, Inc. That allows you to run applications in each operating system without restarting your computer.” OK, back to Windows PCs and my general suggestions. Processor Xeon multicore processors. Get as many and as robust cores as your $ allows. Did someone say 44 cores and 512GB RAM? Yes, I just did. You can and someone should check processor ratings and speeds at CPUbenchmark.net. RAM 64GB is my bare minimum recommendation; 32GB if your firm is absolutely broke and doesn’t really care as much about lost $$$ and productivity. GPU NVIDIA Quadro M or K series (and the bigger numbers of these series, too;) Storage SSD. This is mandatory imo. OK, now onto recommending specifics and my preferences for the three typologies: The Management, The Superstar, and The User. The Management This typology encompasses project managers, BIM or VDC managers, and if you ask me today, most all executives. ![]() This group will not do heavy production, but will still need to push models around a screen from a multitude of places and for a multitude of purposes. For this group the best thing I found in the mainstream is the Surface Book. Figure 2 The Surface Book with 1TB SSD, Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM to be exact. Ikr, a bit light on the RAM for my taste, but outside of that it is close to perfect in its purposefulness, form-factor, and flexibility and there is no competition that I have found (yet). The Superstar These are the heavy-lifters. The advanced modelers, big project designers and producers, renderers, and the like.
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