3 Ways to Add Multi-Line text to Revit labels
Many people know that you can add a carriage return (and thus create multi-line labels) in Revit by accessing a Properties entry box and hitting Ctrl+Enter: Over at Revitez, another method was mention…
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RTC 2011 Reciprocal Resource free downloads
If you attended either RTC AUS or RTC USA this year, you can download content from BOTH conferences. Awesome! “We are pleased to offer the downloading of materials for both the Australasian and North …
Free Revit Details
Over at ARCxl, you can download a bunch of Revit details for free. According to the website, these details were all created natively in Revit. The Terms of Use describes the proper way that these deta…
Find all instances of a detail object and report them to a file
Here is how to do it: Select the detail item. Right-click > Select All Instances > In Entire Project Attempt ‘Group’ command It will fail with an error like this: However the resulting Error Report co…
Maximise your Investment in BIM webinar postponed
After logging in for the Maximise your Investment in BIM Across the Project Lifecycle with Autodesk® Building Design Suite Premium webinar today, I was presented with this message: Dear Customer It is…
Revit 2012 and Rounding Formulas
In Revit, you can sometimes get some weird results from a schedule that directly uses Totals for Areas. For example, the individual Areas of a number of elements may add up to a certain number, but th…
Options Bar bullies the Properties Palette into submission
Do this: Place a new Room While placing, adjust the Limit Offset in the Properties Palette. Everything is ok. Now, still while placing, adjust the Offset in the Options Bar. The Properties Palette is …
Revit 2012 Silently Install Extensions
Extract REX setup from exe to C:Autodesk Go to C:AutodeskREX_RST_2012x64REX_RST (for x64) Run the command as an Administrator: REX_RST.msi /q viaRevit 2012: Silently Install Extensions – Up and Ready …
Open Revit Standard – Abbreviation files
Jay Zallan has posted links to some files containing lists of standard abbreviations. Here are the links in context: @JayZallan#OpenRevStds Here are some Standard abbreviation files to incorporate!!!?…
Converting a raster image to a DWG file
I wanted to convert a PDF file into content I could use in a Planting family in Revit. Part of that process involved converting the image into DWG hatches that Revit could understand, either as an imp…