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This is one of the most exciting blog posts I have read for some time:http://revit.blogspot.com/2010/03/accessing-project-parameters-in.html from Jay Polding at revit in plain english. Essentially, in…
Have a look at this page from Revit Architecture Services and Support if “You want to know in what order cascading licensing checks for available licenses for Autodesk 2010 products.”…
Sometimes you will want a component family to ‘always’ show a certain label. In other words, you do not want to have to manually ‘tag’ the family after placing it in project. How can we do this?Basica…
As you know, Autodesk is now making software available as a ‘Download’ by default for Subscription customers – you won’t automatically receive a boxed version. However, if you still wish to receive a …
No doubt you issue many PDF files to consultants, Clients, Builders and the like. Why not add a URL link to your titleblock, so that anyone receiving your PDF files can jump directly to your webpage? …
I was interested in what I could find on Scribd to do with Revit – turns out there are some resources available. Have a look at some of the search results here:autodesk revit architecture essentials s…
Revit doesn’t want you to copy lines between Annotation and Model Families (see below) However, it can be done. This is the workflow to copy lines from Annotation to Model families: Copy lines from th…
Erik Egbertson over at Inside the Factory made a comment about modeling a Stealth Aircraft in a recent post, and it got me thinking. How would you go about it? Now, I’m sure it would be possible to do…
When you use the Join Geometry tool in Revit, you may notice that it sometimes just doesn’t seem to ‘work’. You do everything right, join the two adjacent surfaces – and there is still an ugly join li…
Occasionally you may find that the Finish Sketch and Cancel Sketch buttons disappear from the Ribbon. The easiest way to get out of this situation is to map a Keyboard Shortcut for these commands. You…