I know that we live in the electronic (supposedly paperless) age, but occasionally it is helpful to have a hard copy of these electronic articles.  Is BIM Smart enough to make available a print version of all of these informative articles?
Thank you for your consideration.
JLH

With all your testing, have you also evaluated performance as well as file size?  Our internal testing verifies your information about size but this is only part of the issue.  When you use 3D content with shapes and extrusions that display in all views, the size is less important than the performance hit.  We have found that whenever Revit must calculate view depth and cut planes for modeled elements to insure correct display that the performance when going from view to view is compromised.  Also, we have found that very small but complex families, particularly with array formaulas, may not compromise model size but most definitely compromise performance.

Family size is only part of the issue.  In our larger projects, it is less important than performance and family function.

Nice article. Although not the intention of the article, it would seem that you would also need to factor in the time it takes to create 3D parametric objects vs. any of the others. Depending on the object and how you want to have it flex, one could easily get more time involved in fighting with the way Revit thinks than it might be worth (depending on the situation).