How to Set Altitude in Google Earth
Navigate to where you want to be and get as close as you can. Start to create a placemark by clicking the pushpin icon. In the placemark’s dialog box, click the “View” tab. Change the number in the “R…
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Tag Floor Area in Revit workaround
As you may have realised, you cannot add the Area parameter to a Floor Tag annotation. Here is a workaround: Make a Floor Schedule with Area and Comments fields added. Filter By – Comments = the Comme…
Database and Excel Linking tools for Revit 2012
Check out the following link:WhiteFeet public downloads Among other things, you will find documentation that covers the following tools:Revit Element ToolsRevit Family ToolsRevit Parameter ToolsRevit …
Who was Vasari anyway?
Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, writer, historian and architect, who is today famous for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation …
Ever tried 3D modelling in AutoCAD?
David Light recommends it in this Tweet: Freedom capabilities of #autocad 2012 are so cool, forms work very nicely with #revit & #vasari; & no i haven’t gone all soft on you 😉 via @davewlight David Li…
Cuttable vs Non-cuttable Family Category Properties
One easy way to determine if a family Category is Cuttable is by looking in the Object Styles dialog box. If there is a gray box in the ‘Cut’ column, that Category is not cuttable. See image below (fr…
Building Windows 8 blog talks about user feedback and the Ribbon
Some of the principles employed by the Windows development team are no doubt similar to those faced by Autodesk, as they develop Revit. Check out some of the quotes I found most interesting (and my th…
BatteryInfoView shows detailed battery information for laptops and netbooks
Displayed battery information includes the battery name, manufacture name, serial number, manufacture date, power state (charging/discharging), current battery capacity, full charged capacity, voltage…
Unacceptable list separator when loading Family Types FIX
I received the ‘Unacceptable list separator’ error while trying to: load a family from file into a project, and load types into the family from a Type Catalog. I assumed the problem was to do with Typ…
Defrag from the Command-Line for More Complete Control
/XPerform free-space consolidation. Free-space consolidation is useful if you need to shrink a volume, and it can reduce fragmentation of future files. /TTrack an operation already in progress on the …