Mitsubishi Electric Revit Files
You have to register before you can download… included are families for Heat Pumps, Condensing Units, Controllers and more. Mitsubishi Electric Living Environmental Systems (UK) Building Information M…
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Revit 2014 is coming
Today is the 21 March 2014. Last year, the NDA was lifted on Revit 2013 around 27 March. There have been whispers of Revit 2014 features getting released on the LARUG blog, over at Revit OpEd and a fe…
Want a Tree View of the Model Elements in all your Worksets?
A new Revit addin from Dima over at dp stuff can do that – it looks like this: The tool is pretty straightforward, so I will try to describe just in a few words how it works (the demo video in the beg…
Add the RevitHelp Twitter Feed to your Revit Communications Center
Click on the little satellite dish, then InfoCenter settings: Go to RSS Feeds and click Add, then copy and paste the following string: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=RevitHelp Done! While you…
Something I've always felt more comfortable doing in AutoCAD – Property Lines
Coming from an AutoCAD background, it comes as second nature to me to draft bounds (boundaries) in AutoCAD. Set your Units to Deg/Min/Sec, set north to 0 degrees and use Clockwise, then start typing a…
Start AutoCAD without any drawing open
At command prompt, type STARTUP and hit Enter. Type 2 and hit Enter. When you close AutoCAD and then re-open it, you will be greeted with a nice, clean screen with no drawing opened.…
Autodesk Automatic Uninstall Tool
I would love to be able to press one button and see all of the current Autodesk products that I have installed disappear. No, I’m not souring on Autodesk 🙂 It’s just that often the different suites an…
Concept Design for Large Scale Projects
Alfred Huang has just uploaded the most recent NYC-RUG presentation to Vimeo: How to Do it All in Revit -Concept Design for Large Scale Projects – New York City Revit User Group (New York, NY) – Meetu…
Now this is what I call a descriptive Error Message
It even gives me a step-by-step on how to do it properly. Revit is truly telling me What it Wants … and it doesn’t want to deal with Areas and Design Options! “Areas and Area Boundaries are not allowe…
Can't see Repeat Button when using Divide and Repeat?
Try this: Make sure that you are using the Face option for placing the component.Turn off the Original Path by selecting the Divided Path and using: Start the place Component command.Make sure that yo…