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2010

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Multiple Selection using Schedule Grouping

Did you know that you can select multiple objects with similar properties using a Schedule? You may say “well, I can just use ‘Select All Instances’…” However, what if you want to select objects that …

2010-09-14 · Luke Johnson
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Custom Railing Connections in 10 steps (free sample download)

Stairs and railings in Revit can be extremely frustrating. In fact, I’m often annoyed that I can’t even model a Railing in-place, as the Railing category isn’t available for in-place families! So, how…

2010-09-13 · Luke Johnson
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Automatically renaming PDFs based on Revit schedule data

Let’s say you have printed a bunch of PDFs to a folder, hopefully using one of the techniques described in my previous two posts (links below), and now you want to rename them to match the data export…

2010-09-08 · Luke Johnson
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Download Mastering Revit Architecture 2011 sample materials

I posted recently about the excellent book, Mastering Revit Architecture 2011. If you wish to access and download the sample files, head over to the Sybex resource page for this book. http://www.sybex…

2010-09-06 · Luke Johnson
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Select Section Box of 3D View from Project Browser

I knew that you could select the ‘camera’ element of a 3D View by right-clicking the 3D View name in the Project Browser and clicking ‘Show Camera’. However, I did not realise that you can also select…

2010-08-31 · Luke Johnson
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Encoding 64 bit Walkthrough – Codec and Solution!

Update: check out this page for the 64-bit Xvid codec I previously described the difficulty of encoding walkthroughs on 64-bit Revit with any sort of compression codec. I did provide a workaround in t…

2010-08-26 · Luke Johnson
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Comprehensive List of Revit Videos for a Project

Came across an excellent series of posts over at Revit Detail. If you go to this post, you can download quite a number of these videos for offline use.…

2010-08-25 · Luke Johnson
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DirectX Runtimes – download

As you know, support for DirectX is now an intrinsic part of Revit 3D hardware acceleration mode. If you wish to install updated DirectX runtimes, go to this link (February 2010 version). This may or …

2010-08-24 · Luke Johnson