To speed up Revit: insert DWG files as links instead of imports, close inactive views, keep plans at Coarse detail with shadows off, avoid families over 2 MB, and unload the links you are not using. A slow file almost always comes from a combination of causes rather than one. Here are eight fixes, starting with the ones that work best.
Most of your time in Revit goes into finding families and reworking them. Next come setting up a new project from scratch and configuring the graphics of every view again. Below are ten ways to speed up your work in Revit.
Free Revit families in 2026 come from three kinds of sources: broad catalogs (BIMobject, ARCAT, BIMsmith Market, NBS Source, Archiproducts, ArchDaily), community libraries like RevitCity and Modlar, and brands that publish their own files, from BIMCORE samples to Herman Miller, Knoll, ERCO and Kohler. All thirty sources below were checked and alive in July 2026. Each has a different sweet spot, and this guide shows where to go for furniture, lighting, bathroom or kitchen, so the search takes minutes.
Modeling furniture from scratch eats into your deadline. These five Revit family sets from the BIMCORE shop cover the rooms interior designers draw most often, and each one drops straight into a project.
This blog collects what we learn about Revit while designing interiors and running real projects.