Never ever ever Rename Workset1
I just became aware of an issue that I wanted to pass on to you all right away. Workset1 is special. It should never be renamed, because it can lead to fairly serious problems down the track, includin…
2012
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Revit's Inconsistent Treatment of Strings in Formulas
It is currently not possible to evaluate a text string in a conditional statement. You can have a conditional statement report a text string, but not check text and base a condition on it.via RevitCit…
To download a podcast without using Itunes
You can use this link to convert the Itunes page into an XML link for use in a normal RSS reader: Podcast URL Extractor…
Materials in Revit 2013 – the saga continues
Good post over at Andekan on Revit Materials in 2013 – I have reposted three things I found particularly insightful below. First of all – a slight correction. The Andekan post states that:You can’t op…
Percentage of Item Count to Total Count in a Schedule
Let’s say you have a number of different Door families in your project, and you want to determine the percentage of the total number of Doors that are Family 1, Family 2 etc, and then you want to show…
Free full version old school 2D CAD program for download – CADVance
You may need to run this in VirtualBox or XP mode if you have a modern system? Link:CADVANCE 6.5 Form…
Free Cropped Photos for Architectural Renderings (Photoshop)
Link: Immediate Entourage | Free Cropped Photos for Architectural Renderings viahttp://revit-pt.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/edicao-e-manipulacao-de-imagens.html…
How to Order and Sort Revit Parameters when adding them
Many of you already know about the asterisk workaround for sorting new Revit parameters when you add them to a family. If you don’t know about it, please read on… First of all, the limitations of this…
Seam Carving GUI for Content Aware Image Resizer
‘Seam Carving‘ is a method of image resizing that is aware of the actual content of the image (also called re-targeting or liquid resizing). Download a GUI package from: http://code.google.com/p/seam-…
Autodesk DesignScript to do battle with Grasshopper and GenerativeComponents
Most of you know what computational, parametric and associative design IS and what it MEANS. Previously, Bentley had a strong product in Generative Components, and we all know about Grasshopper / Rhin…