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The October 2011 AUGIWorld magazine contains an article titled ‘Codeless Revit Customization’. You might think that it is about customizing the UI and Option settings. However, it is actually a how-to…
The review process for the NATSPEC National BIM Guide has been completed and it is now available for use.Learn more about the project or download the NATSPEC National BIM Guide document set v1.0. [390…
Revit does not allow rooms to become smaller than certain dimensions – it simply switches to Not Enclosed when one dimension goes below about 276 mm (when using room separation lines on a rectangular …
An interesting packaged arrived on my desk on the 5 September 2011. It contained a copy of the book Introducing Revit Architecture 2012. Right from the outset, it can be seen that this book is targete…
Pink linesPink linesWhatcha gunna doWhatcha gunna doWhen they won’t form a closed loop? Con-straintsCon-straintsWhatcha gunna doWhatcha gunna doWhen they ask to be removed? Pro-jectsPro-jectsWhatcha g…
A well known limitation of current Revit versions is that you cannot easily transfer a Legend View between projects. However, you can do the following with Legend Views: Save to Project as Image (just…
In Revit, we often have to input RGB values for various color properties, such as shaded view colors for a particular material, or if you want a specific Paint color for a rendered material. To do thi…
Here is a little trap for those who use the Block Editor in AutoCAD. From the Help documentation: Note Automatic save is disabled when the Block Editor is open. This is scary stuff. You could work for…
Locate32 is a free tool that allows you to create custom search database files for a nominated directory (including network resources and USB storage). You can then manually update these database file…
Do you have some large format black and white PDF drawings that are taking up excessive space? Perhaps they contain multi-layered vector information that is clogging them up. You can easily make them …