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A lot of you may have heard about it already, but if you haven’t: Chameleon is a plugin for both Grasshopper and Revit with a focus on interoperability, simulation, and efficient practice workflows. C…
Quote: To follow up the discussion of my quick and dirty Revit model OBJ exporter, I want to point out that Adam Nagy completed his series of posts on the AEC DevBlog on a Revit model exporter and vie…
You have a project with heaps of Warnings / Errors, but you are struggling to find the associated elements. Here is a quick way: The first problem is that not all of us can remember 6 random digits ea…
I have run into an issue when using a Key Schedule, Area Plan and View Template. My Area Plan uses a Color Fill Scheme which uses a Key Schedule as its basis for the different colors of shading. If I …
Borissofff strikes again – many of you may already be aware of this, but you can get an interesting exterior rendering effect in Revit if you set the time to somewhere near or during the night, and th…
I love to see Revit tools used in somewhat unintended ways. In this case, Jay Holland divides an In-Place Mass Face and applies a Pattern Based Roof Tile to the divided surface – cool! His sample file…
While editing an In-place family (Sweep) inside a Design Option, I tried to unpin a sketch line using the Pin icon on the screen. I received this error:Element must be in Main Model To get around it, …
I am. Ostensibly, they start along the lines of “my firm is implementing new systems, what software should we choose…” Then, very quickly they become a mud-flinging game of mirrors, misdirected passio…
Blogger: For example, I wanted a feed for AIA East Bay that only included posts with the label ‘Revit’. Here is what the split feed looks like:http://www.aiaeastbay.blogspot.com.au/feeds/posts/default…
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