Cut Geometry works with Reference Planes
Draw something with a cuttable category, like a Structural Column Draw a Reference Plan that intersects the element (even at an angle) Use Cut Geometry and click the element and then click the Plane v…
2012
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Various methods to upgrade your office RFT files to 2013
In the past, a workflow was available in which you could rename older RFT files to RFA, then upgrade them to the most recent version of Revit (perhaps using a batch upgrade tool), then rename back to …
How to extract MSI files properly (with full file names and target directories)
Use: lessmsi – A tool to view and extract the contents of an Windows Installer (.msi) file. – Google Project Hosting Extract the download, run lessmsi.exe, open the MSI file, click Extract, pick a fol…
Bring your Minecraft model into Blender
Have you made something cool and architectural in Minecraft and you want to make it real? How about sending it out to Blender? Direct CG has made a tutorial to show you how … This tutorial covers: dow…
Revit eStorage – time to add some external file data to your model!
What does Revit eStorage do?Stores and Restores the data of an external file into Revit extensible storage on a selected element. Download Revit e-Storage link How to install (from the readme):Copy th…
Use a Scope Box to quickly re-orient and align Plan Views
Plan View 1 has a rotated crop, and you want to quickly make Plan View 2 ‘match’ it: In Plan View 1, draw a Scope Box to just within the crop region Optional – apply the Scope Box to Plan View 1 Switc…
Revit for Project Management
Link to the presentation: 2012-04-10 – HARUG – Top 10 Revit Tools for Project Management and Panel Discussion – Presentation (pdf) When was it: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 via April 10th 2012 Meeting � …
Go Marcello! Three different Rotation Rig methods …
Most of us use the old Reference Line with angular dimension method to control rotation in our vanilla Revit families. However, Marcello Sgambelluri has posted three alternative methods to control rot…
Project Set-Up Sheet
Here is a nice idea from the Revit Templateer – make an invisible project setup sheet so that you can see and edit ALL of the important project data in one place! Read more at: Revit Templateer: Proje…
UseGraphicsHardware=0 if running Revit 2013 on Macbook with Parallels
As per the Revit Architecture 2013 Known Issues: Hardware acceleration is not available in the Parallels 7 environment, and Revit will revert to a DirectX 9 based software graphics mode, which will no…