The Mystery of Family Categories
EDIT Current category guide post: https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/2013/09/new-crowdsourced-and-open-source.html In Revit, some families have Cut Dominance, some are Cuttable, and some respect various Vie…
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Revit Pranks
In ye olde AutoCAD days, there were a plethora of ways to mess with your fellow users. The sheer amount of obscure yet powerful system variables gave endless opportunities for frivolity. In Revit, not…
Free Revit furniture families from HighTower Group
Just head over to this link: 3D: Revit – HighTower…
Over 26 Revit related videos from the Architect's Digital Design Guide
These videos are from the Youtube channel of David Beach, author of the Architect’s Digital Design Guide. There is almost 3 hours worth of video in the following embedded playlist: Open embedded conte…
Three becomes Four – Ways to go from Grasshopper to Revit
I previously posted about Three Ways to go from Grasshopper to Revit. However, Vasari Talk 18 (uploaded by AutodeskBuilding) shows that there are at least 4. Learn more by viewing the playlist embedde…
Parasolid, Siemens NX and Catia V6 interoperability by Spatial Interop (3DXML)
A few words on 3D engines and InterOp from WorldCAD Access: “For instance, InterOp now directly translates from competitor Parasolid, non-competitor SolidWorks (which uses Parasolid — it’s a complicat…
Thoughts on Models vs Drawings
From Rob Snyder’s blog: “Models are different from drawings in an essential way. A model represents an environmental totality. No locations are discarded and none can be discarded. Therefore authorshi…
Revit training videos for free download
From the KarelCAD Resource Centre: Architecture / Revit Revit Solar Analysis Chicago Project Sketchbook Mobile Alias Sketch ACAD Ecotect Analysis Revit conceptual energy – custom form rationalization …
Detailed post on Working with Grids and Levels from a Structure perspective
Nice post over at revitstructureblog. A couple of highlights:When working with Radial grids you will typically find a couple of problems. The first issue you will find is that the grids will not show …
Component-based Stairs training resources
There is plenty of information available about Component Stairs in Revit 2013. I thought I would collect some of the better resources and post them here. This first link is a little bit outside-the-sq…