BIM's band booms! (image)
from “Fox in Socks” by Dr. Seuss Seems like a few recent tweets agree: @bernstein_adsk 400% increase in the use of #bim in the US #adskbim— David Light (@davewlight) November 19, 2012 Bernstein says 7…
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Piping for Revit MEP Dummies (like Me)
Add two components with similar system connections (like Hydronic Supply) Select one of the components, and click the Piping button Ok to dialog, Edit System, use Add to add the other component. Finis…
Plan ahead when making a family
Sometimes, putting a bit of thought and planning into your family design well lead to far better results than simply ‘diving in there’. The following post shows a list of such requirements. Essentiall…
Remove Shortcut Arrows in Windows 7
From this: To this: By doing this: Shortcut Arrow – Change, Remove, or Restore – Windows 7 Forums…
Beware of Windows Update – nVidia Graphics Adapter WDDM1.1, Graphics Adapter WDDM1.2
Windows Update is pushing an Nvidia driver update package as an Important update now (they are usually offered as ‘optional’). In my case, it was listed as:nVidia – Graphics Adapter WDDM1.1, Graphics …
How to reset the scale of an imported image to its original values
Once you have imported an image into Revit and then warped it (by unticking the Lock Proportions box and resizing it), then it is not immediately evident how you can reset it to 1:1 (its default X:Y s…
What is your favourite image editing program?
Some of you may be surprised to know that Windows Photo Viewer and Office Picture Manager are not the only ways to view and edit image files 🙂 Here are three of my favourites: 1) Irfanview has been up…
Free utility that will sort all of your families by Category!
From time to time, I export all of the families in a project and add it to our Library as a ‘snapshot’ of where our families were at during that project. However, Revit still does not export the famil…
The difference between an Active Dimension and a Selected Label in the Revit Family Editor
There are at least two distinct ways to move an item via dimension edit in the Family Editor, but they can have very different results. See video:Open embedded content: www.youtube.com My video is dir…
Extents of Revit 2013 Railings bug – when no balusters exist in definition
Basically, when all the balusters are removed from a Railing definition in Revit 2013, I have observed that the ‘flip control’ moves far away from the Railing itself, leading to view clipping errors. …