Keeping Views in Multiple RVT files consistent
Think of this scenario – you have 5 different Revit projects all linked together in various ways. You want to ensure that there is some consistency in the way the Plan views appear (possibly because y…
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Stair Path Annotations in Revit 2013
Pre-2013 sketch based stairs have the Stair Path bound to the actual Stair element. In Revit 2013 when using Component Stairs, the Stair Path becomes a separate element. Think of it as a special Tag f…
Australian Revit Keynotes and NATSPEC
You may or may not already know that the Australian Revit content includes keynote files for NATSPEC. I struggle to find keynoting settings every time. I have previously posted about the NATSPEC BIM P…
Saving a Group from the Family Environment creates a Family RFA
The family that is created matches the Category of the host or original family. Evidently, it is this functionality that allows this to occur:Save an In-Place Family as an RFA for use in another proje…
More Revit formula for us babies
A couple of formula tricks from the CAD Shack: Pick One and Only One Here the condition number will allow only one paramter to be true in a list. Associated with a type, you could control a ton of th…
Set up a NICE 3D View Template … for quick Cameras
When making a standard perspective Camera View, Revit 2013 allows you to effectively preset View properties, so that all new Camera views look nice. These settings are from the BIM Technologist: Then,…
Formatting large drives as FAT32 in Windows
Windows 7 does not easily allow you to format a USB drive using the FAT32 filesystem. Some media devices do not understand NTFS, and they need drives to be formatted as FAT32 (such as PlayStation 3 / …
Simple methods to help with Civil 3D and Revit interoperability
Civil 3D is really good at some things. I use it to perform graphic slope analysis on the site surface, which I then export and import into Revit as an image. There are various ways to clean up and br…
View Templates and Project Browser sorting
Something just dawned on me. Given that View Templates are my favourite feature of Revit 2013, wouldn’t it be cool to sort the Project Browser using the View Template field? Then we can quickly review…
Are you using Adaptive Components yet?
Julien Benoit has put together a nicely paced introduction to Adaptive Components. Some quotable quotes: “The future of Revit family creation – adaptive components.” (at time 1:13:52)“all our knowledg…