Vault can be used to search Revit families
Do you know much about Autodesk Vault? Watch this quick video to see how powerful it can be in searching through your Revit family library: Video via Autodesk Revit and Autodesk Vault Collaboration A…
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Save an In-Place Family as an RFA for use in another project
Do you have some awesome in-place families that you would like to convert to normal Component families, so that you can load them into other projects? Here’s how: Open the Project containing the In-Pl…
Two frames for the price of one – cut walkthrough rendering time in half
Are you sick of waiting ages for a Revit walkthrough to render? Using this technique, you can cut your walkthrough rendering time in half! Essentially, we make half the frames we need in Revit, and th…
Finding the fastest USB flash drive
Thinking of buying a new USB Flash drive? Head over to this site:UsbFlashSpeed.com You can also download a utility to benchmark any flash drives that you own:download link…
How to temporarily fix Revit 2012 stall on startup at secsplashwnd
If you try to open Revit 2012 and it stalls at the splash screen, you can try ending the process WSCommCntr3.exe by accessing it in the Task Manager and clicking ‘End Process’. The video below shows t…
How to match a Revit 3D view to a real life Camera Photo
Awesome post from Klaus over at:Revit and Camera Match / FOV and Focal Length He provides a family file and a step-by-step process for how to match a Revit 3D perspective view with a real life camera …
Trimble Acquires Tekla
Trimble Finland Oy, a subsidiary of Trimble Navigation Limited, has acquired Tekla. This could result in some interesting products, as Trimble has a real focus on mobile technologies. Watch this space…
New Way to access Edit Boundary sketch of Ceiling in Revit 2012
Just select the grid line of a ceiling, rather than the edge. Quote below: …in Revit 2012! If you select just a grid line of a ceiling, you now get the option to Edit Boundary… viaRevit ArchCenter: Ne…
Resetting Shared Coordinates (via Revit OpEd)
Great veteran’s tip from Steve. He explains how to reset shared coordinates to an out-of-the-box setting by Acquiring Coordinates from a default Revit template: Once two files are sharing coordinates …
Revit MEP in Parallels, MEP cable trays, MEP access doors videos
A few new videos have been uploaded to the Revit User Community on Vimeo. Some of the more recent ones deal specifically with Revit MEP: Cable Trays in Revit MEP 2011 access doors in revit mep 2011 Ru…