Swapping your Families for different ones
A while back, RevitCat got me thinking about the rules associate with family swapping in Revit. Here are a couple: You can change the Category of a family (using Edit Family, Load into Project) with a…
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Revit Text Leader with Adjustable Arrowhead Line Weight
A recent post by Mark Cronin got me thinking… if you can control the arrowhead lineweight for Spot dimensions, can we hack one of these to make a piece of ‘text’ with adjustable arrowhead lineweights?…
BIM four years later – success? My three favourite quotes:
“a challenge having multiple projects being designed in different versions of Revit. Four years ago, the data transferred from these links was flawed or incomplete. Software lockups were common. With …
Andersen Window Studio is back (Revit content creator / plugin)
EDIT via Autodesk Forum Revit 2014 was just released and an updated version of Andersen’s Window Studio is being tested right now. Release date is expected in 7 – 10 days, but a pre-release version ha…
Using a Super Void Generic Model to Cut Anything
I had a Structural Framing member (a portal frame) and I wanted to demolish only the overhanging part of it. Using methods like Cut By Face would not have any proper respect for Phasing, so I thought …
New Generic Natspec Keynote file
Can be downloaded at this link:https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1dGdRkpk2beQjBNMDdxbXMxaTA/edit?usp=sharing Received via Mark Kelly, Cadgroup Australia Pty Ltd. It is dated October 2012. Thanks Mark! …
Revit – Impression – Photoshop – Revit
Doing an interesting roundtrip today: Export Revit floor plan to DWG – basic walls / doors / floors only Add floor finishes / landscape / people / vehicles in Impression Save PDF, open in Photoshop Ad…
Railing element is invisible when no Balusters are applied
Having some problems with a Railing that will not show up in a Detail View unless balusters are added to it! Video:Open embedded content: www.youtube.com I’m almost certain this is related to this pre…
The Art of Revit
An interesting post by Daniel Burrus on LinkedIn has been doing the social media rounds. Some quotes:Every profession has both a science and an art. The science can be taught, and people can be equall…
Moving docs between Google Drive and Skydrive and keeping them in Sync
Install the Google Drive desktop utility and the Skydrive desktop utility. After syncing both of these utilities / folders, you will have an offline version of both sets of documents in folders like: …