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In Revit 2013, with Component Railings, you can unpin certain elements and modify them. For example, you can unpin a selected component Railing (Top Rail Type or Hand Rail Type) and swap it out for a …
Yeah, Revit topo tools aren’t that great. Why don’t we try exporting to a sculpting tool like meshmixer, and see if we can make it work? Let’s start with a simple Revit toposurface. Export to Max by u…
Select all instances of the Detail Group (either through Project Browser or right-click menu). You will see in the Properties Palette ‘how many’ you have selected. Trigger the Group command Revit will…
Check out the list of companies in the following quote: Trimble Buildings and the Trimble DBO platform will initially combine technology from Trimble’s former Building Construction Division with Sketc…
EDIT: My post was up before the app I think! Here is some more info:Itunes App Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autodesk-formit/id575282599?ls=1&mt=8 Autodesk page:http://autodeskformit.com…
Basically, if you have one site toposurface, and you cut it with pads in different phases, then an ‘outline’ around every single pad appears in the creation phase of the toposurface (they affect the t…
This poem has done the email forward rounds for years, and has been incorrectly attributed to various authors. It is in the style of Dr Seuss, but was authored by Gene Ziegler. Here is the full versio…
In Revit, certain view properties are not schedulable. Additionally, you cannot change Visibility / Graphics through a schedule. However, let’s say you have a schedulable view property that allows you…
I previously posted about vyonyx. They are now hosting their free image content at this site:http://www.gobotree.com/ There is also some content over at Accustudio:Backdrops – Backdrops…
In the Parameter Properties dialog, click Export. Note: The Export option is not enabled if the selected parameter is already in the current shared parameter file. A message displays informing you tha…