Revit Building Pads, Topography and phases
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…
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Why Computers Sometimes Crash
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…
View Selector hack
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…
More Free Entourage and Backgrounds for your Revit Renders
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…
To rebuild a Shared Parameter file, use the Export option from Family or Project
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…
The Trace Contour filter in Photoshop
Will turn this: Into this:…
Revit and VEO, finally together again …
Surely Revit integration with VEO will be a high priority, now that Autodesk are buying into VEO so heavily? Some of you may recall that VEO-LUX was once a Revit add-in application , and that Revit Ar…
More Revit Training Video Resources
A huge list of Revit videos here: Canal de ddufon – YouTube Embedded:Open embedded content: www.youtube.com Rapid Revit Report tips (playlist):Open embedded content: www.youtube.com (originally from R…
SHX font mapping for linked DWG files in Revit
“In Revit, the default font is Arial, for example, is therefore the DWG file represent fonts in Arial.The “shxfontmap.txt” is located at:C: Users AppData Roaming Autodesk Revit Autodesk Revit 2013Firs…
A very quick trademark post
There has been lots of verbiage flying around the interwebs lately regarding the use of Autodesk trademarks in domain names. I recently surrendered www.revitprofessionals.com (quite happily), in order…