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The Revit Community

It can be really had to keep up with all of the Twitter and blog data that is generated every day on the topic of Revit. However, if you have the time to skim through the main Revit blogs and tweets, …

2012-01-19 · Luke Johnson
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Press and Drag = 0

A few years ago, Phil launched his anti Ribbon campaign with a T-shirt (anyone remember Use2009UI=1)? In response to this post and various recent tweets, I thought some of you might appreciate an anti…

2012-01-19 · Luke Johnson
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How to fix broken Russian Type Catalogs

There have been a few posts recently about how to fix Type Catalog errors. If you use Russian Revit (particularly Web Update 2), the following fix will be useful (the key part is changing the file enc…

2012-01-18 · Luke Johnson
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Some Photoshop Tips for enhancing Architectural Photographs

I’m sure many of you are very experienced Photoshop users, so I won’t bore you with too much detail. There are just two things I wanted to mention: If you have a photo that was taken in less-than-perf…

2012-01-17 · Luke Johnson
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Create a multiboot USB pen drive inside Windows with YUMI

YUMI-0.0.4.0.exeSource Code How to Create a MultiBoot USB Flash Drive Run* YUMI-0.0.4.0.exe following the onscreen instructions Run the tool again to Add More ISOs/Distributions to your Drive Restart …

2012-01-16 · Luke Johnson
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New Revit Forum – in German

Here is a link: http://forum.rug-dach.de/ Translated to English If you want to quickly search the major Revit forums, feel free to use my custom search tool.…

2012-01-13 · Luke Johnson
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Revit Accuracy and Precision

Do you ever struggle with lines jumping around at extreme zoom levels, or weird numbers appearing when you are using many decimal points in your dimensions (like 1000.0000034)? This may be why: Revit …

2012-01-13 · Luke Johnson