Fix the model before it breaks the deadline
When your Revit model gets sluggish — slow syncs, crashes, ballooning file size — this recipe runs a standardized health checklist, captures symptoms, and produces a prioritized cleanup sprint plan with owners and timeboxes.
Create a skill called "BIM Model Health Sprint". When my team reports slow syncs, crashes, or file bloat — or 7 days before a major submission — I want to run a structured model cleanup. You should: 1. Collect symptoms: who is affected, what behavior they're seeing, model type, linked files, and any recent major changes or imports 2. Run through a model health checklist: worksharing hygiene, link status, view inventory, family bloat, and warnings count (flag if >500) 3. Generate a sprint board: prioritized cleanup tasks, each with an owner and timebox, for a 3-day sprint 4. After the sprint, create a short postmortem template: what broke, root cause, and what to standardize to prevent recurrence Flag the sprint if sync times exceed 120 seconds or warning counts exceed 500.
Every BIM team eventually hits the wall: central sync takes five minutes,
someone's worksharing request hangs, or the model crashes before a deadline.
This recipe gives you a structured response instead of panic. It collects
symptoms, runs through a health checklist, and generates a short cleanup
sprint with assigned tasks — so you fix the real problems, not just the
symptoms.
Coordination meetings that actually close issues
A disciplined coordination workflow: pre-meeting agenda, a single-source issue register, action-item minutes, and closeout reminders. Keeps multi-discipline coordination from devolving into recurring conversations that never resolve anything.
Make the transition survivable for small teams
Guides a small practice or project team through a structured CAD→BIM transition: readiness assessment, training plan, pilot project selection, and weekly retrospectives. Designed to make the move stick without overwhelming the people doing the work.
Auto-generate proxies the moment footage lands
Choppy playback, laggy scrubbing, and unusable timelines — even on strong machines — often comes down to editing long-GOP or heavy codecs at high resolution without proxies. This recipe generates proxies automatically whenever new camera originals appear, so every project starts edit-ready instead of debug-ready.
Keep media caches from eating your SSD and slowing your apps
Media cache and disk caches balloon over time, causing storage emergencies and performance regressions. This recipe turns cache cleanup from a panic action into a controlled, scheduled maintenance job — for Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and similar tools.