Properties Palette craziness – solution
After a few emails back and forth to a very helpful person at Autodesk, I finally tried putting both the Properties Palette and the Project Browser onto the ONE MONITOR – and the problem disappeared! …
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Unpredictable Properties Box Behaviour
If you select multiple views in the Project Browser in Revit 2011, how would you modify their common properties? If you attempt to directly modify them in the open Properties palette, they are not mod…
Make a wish…
If you haven’t already heard, AUGI Wish List voting is now open. Have a vote for Revit features here or AutoCAD features here.…
Inconsistency of Dialogue
Its great that we can now resize some of the dialog boxes in 2011. But the flaming Tag All Not Tagged box still doesn’t resize!…
Revit 2011 Secret #11 – Customize QAT
Wow, Revit is starting to finally allow some actual customization of the User Interface! If you intend to use the Quick Access Toolbar a lot, have a look at the new things you can do – such as sorting…
2011 Media vs Download – Box of Goodies
I received our DVD media for Revit 2011 today – and man, what a box of goodies! Here is a list of the discs in the box: Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 AutoCAD 2011 32-bit (Disc 1 of 2) AutoCAD 2011 …
SuperTip #3 – Keyboard Shortcuts
The best way to become faster at using Revit is to trigger more commands with the keyboard. This is a trick that anyone using AutoCAD learned years ago. You can just hit a few keys much faster than yo…
Revit 2011 Secret #10 – Orient View to a Plane
When in 3D, you can now right-click the ViewCube and Orient the View to a Plane… I think we had this feature a couple of years ago, but it wasn’t in 2010, but now it’s back! Very handy when working wi…
Dimond Architects – Affordable Accommodation Proposal
At Dimond Architects, we recently responded to an interesting client brief. The Client was seeking a scheme that retained existing trees, provided affordable housing and was highly rated in terms of e…
2009 UI Still Lives!!!
I personally am quite happy with the Ribbon, particularly with the new enhancements. But out of curiousity, I just thought I would see if the Classic UI is still alive in 2011 – and it is! So if you w…