Follow up on compacting

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Team,

I have recently published a write up on my blog about compacting of Revit models and the potential impact that it might have on file sizes and synch/open/regenerate durations for that model. Some of the feedback that I have been getting about that post was that it’s common knowledge and that we can assume that most companies would be doing it already. I wanted to see if that’s indeed the case, so I am asking anyone interested in the subject to import the attached visualization into their company’s Kibana, and post a snapshot of what the actual percentage of compacted models are. I know, I know, we are not trying to shame anyone. I am just interested if it’s indeed something that most companies already do across the board, and I was wrong in my initial assumptions. Help me out!

Here’s the visualization that showed a percentage of Synchs vs Synchs with Compacting checked on.

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If you want to import that into your Kibana environment just go to Stack Management > Saved Objects and click on the “Import” button. Here’s the file: Download

Feel free to share your screenshots of the results or just the % values. Let’s see if it’s a bigger problem or just local to the few companies that we did look at.

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We are currently at 14% of our files have been compacted. I am currently looking for a way to automate this.

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@Gilly when I wrote this article: https://archi-lab.net/the-case-for-compacting-revit-files/ I suggested that we could force users to compact every x days, or x-synchs. There is a mechanism in Revit called Extensible Storage for storing extra metadata in the file. What we could do is create a Revit plugin that reads that metadata every time you press the Synch button, and checks if this file was already synched x amount of times. If it was we could execute a Synch + Compact on behalf of user, then reset that counter to 0. Again, that would need to be a custom plugin, but it should be possible.

Ps. 14% is really high. :partying_face: I haven’t seen anyone be above 2-3% from the clients’ data that I had access to over the last few years.

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We are at 5.016% right now…we have margin for improvement :slight_smile:

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@fherbere 5% is not a bad place to start…lots of room for improvement too.