Project Planning and What Revit Wants
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 …
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Determining which Revision Clouds exist in a view
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…
Quickly review Error Report by parsing Element ID in spreadsheet
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…
Selection Master for Revit
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…
Mosaic Project – Fail?
Still have to iron out some of the bugs I guess……
Schedule Calculated Value struggling with missing parameters and values FIX
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…
Filled Region display order workaround for Title Block
The Revit Clinic has posted a nice little display order workaround for Filled Regions in Title Blocks. I have a feeling that this workaround may also be useful in other situations… 1. Start a new Revi…
Replace one font with another very quickly in Revit Structure (filter based replacement)
Ever wanted to replace a font with a different one in a Revit project, including adjusting all text, dimensions, and labels? I came across a very handy add-in through the RevitDE blog. Its called BIMT…
Graphic Aberration when rotating view containing linked DWG
I printed a PDF from Revit today, and was presented with this output: The text was not printed from a linked DWG. This problem resulted because: I linked a DWG into a Detail (Section) View I then rota…
Autodesk Subscription Glossary of Terminology
Ever wondered what the terms Personal Access URL, Software Coordinator (SC) or Consolidating Contracts mean? Wonder no more…check out the following link: Autodesk – Autodesk Revit Architecture Service…