How to Mask Sheet, Model AND Annotation Elements (Revit Clinic)
You learn something new every day – and today I was schooled by this Revit Clinic post – 3 Levels of Masking.…
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Transferring custom colors using the Revit.ini file
If you have just installed a fresh version of Revit, you may have noticed that you have lost your Custom Colors. There are 16 ‘slots’ available for Custom Colors in the Revit Color Palette. To transfe…
Accessing AUGI via the Google Cache
It seems the AUGI forum data situation is still up in the air – will all that user generated content ever become available again? In the meantime *some* of the AUGI data can be accessed using the Goog…
Recover typed form data (or, OH NO What Have I Done!)
Have you ever spent ages typing into a web form, only to press submit and be served a message like “Error=remote_computer_lost_your_hard_work” or even just a blank page? If this has just happened to y…
Google Desktop Search – additional tweaks
I hope you enjoyed my previous post about how to index networked content. If you wish to tweak some more settings or even move your Google index, you should install TweakGDS. This is a small plugin ut…
Location for Revit 2011 KeyboardShortcuts.xml file
You want to know where the KeyboardShortcuts.xml file is stored for Revit® 2011 products after customizing keyboard shortcuts… The KeyboardShortcuts.xml file is stored in the following folder location…
Automatically Download Content for Free
There are many sources of content out there, the main ones being Seek and RevitCity. Sometimes, a content provider will attempt to obfuscate the links to the original files, so that you can’t just com…
DWG Import and Link Methods
A big tip for new players: Never import a DWG file. And never, ever explode an Imported DWG file. Nothing good will come of it. Trust me. Instead, do this (in order of preference): Use Revit natively,…
Save All Families in a Project to RFAs and Folders AUTOMATICALLY
This is awesome. Let’s say you have a project with heaps of families in it, and you want to save them to individual files. There is an API add on that does exactly this. How do you get it and use it? …
Re-ordering and re-grouping parameters for userfriendliness
So you have added a bunch of Shared Parameters to your Project, but you never bother to set the ‘Group Parameter under:’ property correctly…you are naughty, aren’t you? It can make using Revit a lot e…