Low Space/Slow Performance User Guide
This document will describe how to improve the performance of the below areas when they're struggling in performance.
Laptop
Splashtop
Revit
Rhino
how to clear up space on your C drive within your laptop or splashtop machine when you're running low on space or having application performance issues.
Temp Folder for laptop and splashtop
If you're doing this on your Splashtop machine, it'd be best to do this with Revit and Rhino applications closed.
The temp folder contains temporary files and folders that applications on your machine require briefly.
You can access the temp folder simply by inputting %temp% on the address bar on file explorer.
Everything in here can be deleted. Do the following to do so:
1. Select all files within the temp folder with CTRL + A
2. Hold SHIFT and delete everything.
3. You will see a number of files that are still in use, if so, tick the 'Do this for all current items' and click on 'Skip'.
Downloads Folder for laptop and splashtop
Clearing everything in your downloads can help in clearing up space on your laptop.
Pick out any files and folders that you may need, move them to your documents folder and then delete everything in downloads folder.
If you find that this hasn't cleared up enough space or there's still slow performance, please raise a helpdesk ticket through https://help.grimshaw.global/
May be worth restarting your Splastop machine after clearing the Temp folder and Downloads folder.
Revit Troubleshooting
FREE UP SPACE
To free up space on machine, Delete the files in these locations:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp\Autodesk\Revit\Autodesk Revit [version]\Journals
REVIT PERFORMING SLOW
If you find your Revit application is running slow or crashing, have a look at the below points to improve the performance of Revit.
1. CAD Imports.
Check that you're not importing a CAD file into the BIM Models/Project files.
Rather than importing a CAD file for your project, you should be linking instead.
2. Delete all views that are not required in the project file that you're working on.
3. Purge the groups that are no longer in the model.
4. Review and fix warnings - try and keep the number of warnings to a minimum, and to solve them when they occur, instead of ignoring them.
5. Accept design options.
For a deeper explanation of the above points, kindly refer to a member of the BIM team who can explain further.
Rhino Troubleshooting
If you find your Rhino application is running slow or crashing, have a look at the best practice guide available on Atlas. See link below.
Rhino | 04 | Best Practice Guide - ATLAS (grimshaw.global)
If you're still having trouble with Rhino, kindly refer to a member of the CD team who can take a deeper look at the issue you're having.