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families in your project to a folder. After you purge unused families, you can always return to
the folder in which you saved the families and reload them as necessary.

Cutting down on the number of Views
The ability to quickly create views within a model is one of the benefits of using Revit;
however, this ability can be a detriment if it is not managed. Beyond the simple hassle of sorting
through many views to find the one you need, too many views can also negatively affect your
performance and file size.
Obviously, a number of views are needed within the model to create the construction
documentation. Beyond those views, you will find yourself creating views to study the design,
deal with model creation, or simply view the building or project from a new angle. These
types of working views will never make it to the sheet set, and some will be used for only brief
periods.
Before you go through the effort of counting all your unused views, remember that a Revit
model is a database. You can use this feature to let the software perform the counting for you,
using schedules. To create a schedule that will track unused views, open the AppB-Foundation
.rvt file found on the book’s companion website. Next, select the Schedules fly-out from the
View tab and choose View List.

How Many Working Views Are Too Many?

how many working views are too many to have in your model? The obvious answer is that when
performance begins to suffer, you need to start looking at ways to make the model leaner and speed
up response times. We had a project team new to revit software, and they were complaining about
the file being slow to open and manipulate. When reviewing their model, we saw their file size was
over 800 mb! We were surprised they were able to do any work at all.
one of the first things we did to get the file size down to something more reasonable was look at
all the views that were not on sheets. We found they had more than 1,200 views not being used.
deleting those views and running a file ➢ save (with the compress box checked) brought the file
size down to 500 mb. although the size was still high, this example demonstrates the impact that
too many views can have on your file size.

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