Ribbon Tab Tearoff = Crash? Fix here…
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…
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Autodesk Software Download – FAQs
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…
Autodesk Product Upgrade Download Page
If you are a Autodesk Subscription customer, you should login to the subscription site and check out the new product download page. You can now download the current release as well as the previous rel…
Part 2 – How to Print a large set of drawings to individual PDFs with automatic naming (renaming resulting PDFs)
I hope that you found my previous post on batch printing with automatic naming helpful. But what if you want to add a prefix or a suffix to all PDFs in a set? Some firms like to add the current revisi…
Plan Regions and Wall Hatching
After reading The Revit Clinic post about Plan Regions Wall Cleanups, I was reminded of a similar problem I had with Plan Regions and Wall Hatching. I had a problem where the hatching would disappear …
Copy text from any dialog in Windows (including Revit!)
Have you ever wanted to copy the text from a Windows Dialog, for use in training, blogging or other support related tasks? Then you should check out the free SysExporter. It is available in installabl…
The Parametric Life (repost)
Interesting post over at BIM + Integrated Design. It includes 14 Rules for Living In, Out and Around BIM.My blog has dealt with ‘What Revit Wants’ in more than a few posts over the last few years. So …
System Spectrum Analyser (analyse your computer specifications)
If you would like a free tool that gives you a very quick, concise summary of your system specifications, you can download one from here:System Spectrum Analyser Please see the related posts below if …
Free PDF Convert Merge Split Modify etc Tool
I traditionally use Free PDF Tools from PDFill for this kind of task, but there is a download available today at giveawayoftheday.com for Foxonic Professional 4.0.. There is still 8 hours remaining to…
How to Print a large set of drawings to individual PDFs with automatic naming
Sometimes you will want to produce a large set of PDFs where each drawing sheet is in its own PDF file. You also want the PDFs to be automatically named and created. There are a number of ways to acco…