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To save time on Revit interior projects, prepare the parts your practice uses repeatedly. A family library provides adjustable objects, a reference project shows how to document them, and a project template supplies the view and schedule settings. Together, they reduce the setup work needed for each new project.

Start with the task that repeats before every issue. If a kitchen revision requires editing geometry inside several families, start with modules whose dimensions and configuration you can change through parameters. If several people produce different graphics for the same kind of plan, start with view templates.

For layout options and presentation images, SketchUp can be a practical choice, especially if your team already works in it. For recurring interior projects with plans, elevations, tags and schedules, Revit lets you organise those deliverables around one model. The choice depends on the complete drawing package and how you handle revisions.

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.