Project Chronicle up for download on Labs
I saw some information on this Project a while back – it looked very cool indeed. Essentially it allows you to record and replay a tutorial or workflow in extreme detail. For Autodesk products, it may…
2012-10
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You can use the Insert 2D Elements to bring in Annotation …
from the currently opened file! So if you want to copy annotation and detail elements from one Plan View to another (without having to fiddle around with filtering of selections etc), just go to: Then…
Revit 2013 railings – almost 7 months old, but have you used them?
To be quite honest, I haven’t really used the new 2013 features for Railings, perhaps because my recent work has been more on a master planning level rather than construction documentation. In any cas…
O n e m i l l i o n
Somewhat of a milestone for What Revit Wants – 1,000,000 pageviews were reached over the weekend. If you want to show your continued support for this website, please Like What Revit Wants and Dimond A…
Using the Load as Group command to update Edited Groups without saving them
Have you noticed this little gem? If you use the Edit command from the Project Browser for a Detail or Model Group, like this: … then you can use the Load as Group into Open Projects to update the gro…
Install Remote Desktop Protocol 8.0 update on Windows 7 SP1
Basically this enables rich client access to Windows Server 2012 … you can install it via Windows Update or:Download Update for Windows 7 (KB2592687) from Official Microsoft Download Center Quote: To …
Revit Prank 2 – custom dimension rounding
Beware of this one – someone setting the Custom dimension rounding to something strange like ‘3’: It can make a tidy Dimension Plan look terrible! More at: What Revit Wants: Revit Pranks…
Using Civil3D to increase your Topography resolution in Revit
You receive a DWG file from a surveyor, and you need to get it into Revit. You go through all the usual cleanup steps. You have purged, scaled, done a write-block, audited. You link the DWG into Revit…
A very quick way to export a very clean RVT file
You may want to do a very aggressive cleanup of your Revit file, getting rid of all Views while retaining all 3D elements as proper Revit elements. You can use the ‘Save to New File’ function to do th…
Revit Extensions – updated October for Revit 2013
The Q3 Update includes enhancements to bridge modeling, integration with Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis Professional 2013, and improvements to the reinforcement extensions. Refer to the “Feature…