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Here are some ideas: Use a Filter with a Drafting Pattern and match the Hatch Scale to the View Scale. Link: Model pattern not visible on ramps in plan views? Use Floors with slope arrows instead (to …
A very interesting Case Study written by Doug Andresen (principal architect at Andresen Architecture, Inc) was posted to AUGI last week. He describes how his firm transitioned from AutoCAD to Revit. H…
Rather than get lost in the flood of Revit 2014 information, I thought I would wait until closer to the time that most people will actually start installing and using it. The post below is just a coll…
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In Revit 2013, you can’t tag the slope of ramps in Plan views using the Spot Slope tool. There are workarounds out there already, but here is an easy one: Make a new Generic Model Adaptive family with…
Remember Julien Benoit’s adaptive component tutorial from a year ago (link here)? Well, Julien has made something pretty cool and posted it on RFO. It is basically a 4 point adaptive component that ca…
Check out this list: Open Source Distribution You can download individual packages as ZIP files. Some of the more well known OSS used are 7zip, ffmpeg and SharpDevelop. Heads-up:Jeremy Tammik, The Bui…
Hundreds of furniture and workstation families at:http://revit.steelcase.com/ Revit | Design Center | Resources | Steelcase Heads-up:http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.bi…
Point clouds are getting a lot of “press” lately, and they can be very useful. But let’s say, hypothetically, that you have a 3D model of a building or a component and you want to deconstruct it back …
There are about 30 zip packages available at the: Register / download page here Open embedded content: www.youtube.com via Norix Furniture Revit� files lighten load on users designing facility models…