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Nice tip from Revit Rants on how to round values within a family – and it allows much greater flexibility as to the rounding increment. In the example below, Chris uses ROUNDUP to round to a 5mm degre…
I find it interesting that AutoCAD 2013 can directly link (XREF) DWG files directly from the Autodesk Cloud. Just Insert – DWG Reference… – then press the Autodesk 360 button in the dialog. Revit Serv…
From IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog:We can add a modifier to the export dialog box for the items we want to adjust, make sure that you also do this to the sub-categories of the element also, and s…
Have you ever wanted to control the text on your Sections, even forcing the text to be rotated / aligned with the Section Line itself? If so, check out the information and links below. From Oliver Lan…
What is the U-Value? It is:Also known as the U-factor or coefficient of heat transmission, a measure of the rate of non-solar heat loss or gain through a material or assembly. U-values gauge how well …
Thanks to one of our readers, we have a solution for the schedule precision problem described here. The comment below the lines gives the formula to convert an Area into a rounded number in a schedule…
Daryl Gregoire posted about this recently and I found his post very helpful. In the past, if the checkbox was grayed out to ‘Create New Local’, I would just manually copy the file to my C: drive, appe…
FM, or Facility Management, is sometimes thought of as the sixth dimension of BIM, or 6D BIM. Mario Guttman, creator of Whitefeet tools, reposted an interesting video / case study by David Mettler sho…
The goal of this Preview Version of “SOFiSTiK Reinforcement for Autodesk® Revit®” is to enable the productive design of 3D reinforcement with Autodesk® Revit®. This particularly includes the creation …
If you want to learn some more about the View Cube, check out:Scott Chatterton: Revit View Cube Tips One thing that Scott doesn’t mention in this particular post is How to change the ‘Front View’ on t…