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EDIT In Revit 2012 and newer, the quickest way to identify paint is to use the Remove Paint tool. This does not load the Material selection panel, and will thus be faster. Also, switch 3D view to wire…
Let’s say you have hundreds of views in a Project, with some customised view sorting. How do you delete a view that you have open, without having to find it in the Project Browser? Simply right-click …
The 2 mile limitation has been removed in Revit 2011. The limit is now something more like 10 miles (16 km) from the drawing origin. The ability of Revit to maintain accuracy while dealing with these …
One of the most annoying limitations of Keyboard Shortcuts in 2010 was that it was impossible to apply a shortcut for Temporary Hide/Isolate – Isolate Element. Thankfully, this irritating omission has…
When you right-click on a view in the Project Browser, you can now save that view to the project as an image:…
Tags can now be placed on items inside Revit links. I’m sure that this will prove very useful for many of you.…
As with AutoCAD, Revit 2011 now provides a Recent Commands submenu on right-click: You can also see here that the Persistent Properties can be turned on and off using the right click menu.…
Over the next few weeks, you are going to be flooded with information about the new versions of Revit. Rather than posting extremely detailed and exhaust-ive (-ing) blog posts, I thought I would give …
I recently stumbled across the fix for an issue that has annoyed me for ages. The problem we had was that Revit would always crash when tearing off any ribbon panel. This issue affected two of our hig…
You can now download a ‘Customer Questions and Answers’ document from Autodesk, relating to the Autodesk Software Download process. It is available at this link, but you will need to login to Subscrip…