Upgrading cloud-shared Revit models via Autodesk Construction Cloud’s Cloud Model Upgrade tool can initially feel daunting. It often surfaces a flurry of errors and warnings, but the key insight is that most issues indicate pre-existing model “technical debt”, not bugs in Autodesk’s tool. Understanding Technical Debt Technical debt is a concept originally coined by software developer Ward Cunningham in 1992….
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I was asked about a problematic Revit model with 57,000 purgeable material assets. “Just purge them”, you say, but the problem is that even using a shift+click to select the assets locked up the user’s Revit for around 30 minutes while Revit thought about its life choices. I had experience previously purging elements using the performance advisor, but that doesn’t…