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Sometimes you may have trouble using a DWG that contains ‘points’ to create a Revit topography. There are two main ways around this. METHOD 1 Here is a LISP routine to export points in a DWG to CSV fi…
I can’t believe I had not come across this change until today. In Revit 2012, the Room Computation Height is no longer a Type Property of the Level – it is now an Instance Property. Some of the impact…
I received this comment to one of my posts:…Being new to Revit (2011) is there a way to locate newly created views in the project browser? Or do a search? Or am i stuck using filters? Comment link Her…
According to Einstein, people who properly create #Revit Families, are genius. “Intelectuals solve problems, genius’ prevent them.” #fb via Twitter / @revittotd: According to Einstein, peo ……
A recent post over at Revit Scratchpad deals with the issues of ‘user expectations’ and the importance of setting up a Revit project correctly from the beginning. Check it out:Revit can be amazing at …
I was trying to delete a view today, and I got this Error:The Revision of this Revision Cloud has been issued. Deletion of this Revision Cloud is prohibited. So, obviously there are some Revision Clou…
I find the Error Report – Warning – Select by ID process to be a little unwieldy in Revit (at the moment). Here is a little process that may speed things up for you when reviewing a Error Report in Re…
Remember the GetLevel add-in? I previously posted about it at What Level is that on? and Find Elements Associated with a Particular Level. Well, the guy behind GetLevel, Steve Faust, has just released…
Still have to iron out some of the bugs I guess……
Martijn de Riet has pointed out something very useful when you are trying to use a Calculated Value to pull together a bunch of similar-but-different parameters. If you come across an error, don’t for…