My New PDF Markup Rig
One side-effect of moving home base closer to a city is the likelihood that one will have to commute, perhaps using public transport on a day-to-day basis. This means potentially having two hours a da…
2013-11
Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.
Use an Underscore at the Start of a View Name to put it at the top of the Find Referring Views list
It will look like this:…
Showing Structural Column Cut Pattern from a Linked Revit File through Walls in a Host
Painfully, Architectural Walls in a Host model often occlude the Cut Pattern settings for Structural Columns in a Linked Model. You may be able to see the edges of the Structural Columns, but any View…
Forcing the Leader to Always Attach to the Top Line of multi-line Label tag Element in Revit
Make your Label aligned to Top and Left. Add a long line of Invisible Lines type a little bit further Left than the label itself. Your leader will now attach at the midpoint of the Invisible Line, pro…
Analytical model edge cannot have a length of zero (0)
We are seeing this error on a received Structural model:Analytical model edge cannot have a length of zero (0) Revit does not offer a solution – you can’t Delete Checked, and you can’t press OK. It ju…
Free 1.5 hr lesson on Families – Boston Revit User Group
Open embedded content: player.vimeo.com Boston RUG Oct 2013: Families Pt 1 from James Vandezande on Vimeo. Recorded at the Oct 17, 2013 meeting of the Boston Revit Users Group, this video features an …
Using Revit Server with Linked Models
If you want your entire geographically separated team to have access to the same linked files, you need to upload them to Revit Server. This also goes for CAD / DWG files, which will need to be import…
Automatically make Floors from Rooms – free addin download
Download at:AutoFloorMaker.addinAutoFloorMaker.dll Copy to:C:ProgramDataAutodeskRevitAddins2014 It comes with a disclaimer, you can read more at:http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=…
Split Pane Views in Revit 2014
Most of you know that in Revit 2014, you can stack Project Browser, Properties Palette and other “panes” on top of each other, resulting in a tabbed dialog. But did you know you can also drop them bes…
RSS feed for AU2013 Twitter Search
If you are old-school and want to subscribe in a RSS reader, try this link:here I used this method to create it……