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2013-05

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Dutch Revit Standards for download

Dutch Revit standard (template) for download: Download – RevitGG.nlTranslated version There is a link to download version 0.8 from Dropbox at this page. The download includes content like: project tem…

2013-05-08 · Luke Johnson
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Permanently Remove Areas and Remove Empty Tags addins

Dima has moved his blog to http://dp-stuff.org/ Here are the most recent two addins: PermRemovAreasRooms Revit Addin PermRemoveAreasRooms Revit API addin allows you to delete rooms or areas permanentl…

2013-05-08 · Luke Johnson
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Do Worksets have a place in modern Revit?

Non-recent comment from Kyle (Autodesk staffer): Recognizing that Worksets alone were not flexible enough to facilitate productive collaboration in many cases, we implemented Element Borrowing. This e…

2013-05-08 · Luke Johnson
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Migrating from AutoCAD to Revit?

Some wisdoms from Paul Aubin:BIM isn’t a particular product, but rather a description of the process and intent of the deliverables used to describe, construct, and even maintain a facility. It’s ther…

2013-05-07 · Luke Johnson
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Void Visibility Tricks

Ever wanted to “hide” a void, or stop it from cutting? There are at least two ways: 1) parametrically moving the void outside of the solid form when you dont want it to cut (this is the “old way”) or …

2013-05-07 · Luke Johnson
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IFC updates (including Revit 2014)

via email (note that the Sourceforge link for the 2014 UI is recommended over the App Store version): You are getting this message because you downloaded a version of IFC Exporter for Revit 2013/2014 …

2013-05-07 · Luke Johnson
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Downloading Subscriber Benefit Apps from Autodesk Exchange

There are now 9 apps for Revit 2014 uploaded to Autodesk Exchange that are classed as “Subscriber Benefit Apps”. These are basically standalone install packages for things that are bundled up in the R…

2013-05-03 · Luke Johnson
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Setting Workplane of a view with keyboard shortcuts

As most of you know, I love keyboard shortcuts. Harry shows you how you can map an external tool to a keyboard shortcut to make this happen: Open embedded content: www.youtube.com viaSetting a view’s …

2013-05-02 · Luke Johnson
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Index to Tips and Tricks (RFO)

Just in case you haven’t seen it yet – you should check out this great thread on RFO:…….Index to Tips and Tricks…….…

2013-05-02 · Luke Johnson