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2012-04

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Win a Free Ticket to Visday 2012 !

Please RT. Last year, I attended the Revit Technology Conference in Australia. It was an absolutely awesome experience. While the information was of a very high standard, I personally loved the opport…

2012-04-23 · Luke Johnson
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IFC Exporters and Importers and Tips

First off, a couple of links to Exporter add-ins for Revit 2013: IFC Exporter on SourceforgeAutodesk Exchange Apps – IFC Exporter for Revit There have also been a few quite a few posts on other blogs …

2012-04-23 · Luke Johnson
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What do you love about Revit 2013?

There is one thing about Revit 2013 that I love above all the others – View Templates. They are now truly powerful and useful, and they should improve our project management and documentation consiste…

2012-04-22 · Luke Johnson
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Never ever ever Rename Workset1

I just became aware of an issue that I wanted to pass on to you all right away. Workset1 is special. It should never be renamed, because it can lead to fairly serious problems down the track, includin…

2012-04-19 · Luke Johnson
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Revit's Inconsistent Treatment of Strings in Formulas

It is currently not possible to evaluate a text string in a conditional statement. You can have a conditional statement report a text string, but not check text and base a condition on it.via RevitCit…

2012-04-19 · Luke Johnson
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Materials in Revit 2013 – the saga continues

Good post over at Andekan on Revit Materials in 2013 – I have reposted three things I found particularly insightful below. First of all – a slight correction. The Andekan post states that:You can’t op…

2012-04-19 · Luke Johnson
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Percentage of Item Count to Total Count in a Schedule

Let’s say you have a number of different Door families in your project, and you want to determine the percentage of the total number of Doors that are Family 1, Family 2 etc, and then you want to show…

2012-04-18 · Luke Johnson