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I am loving Navisworks more with every passing day. A job doesn’t have to be a fully collaborative / coordinated project in order to get benefit from Navis. Here is a collection of recent information …
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Revising large sets of drawings in Revit can be a little challenging. I previously posted about a method using Detail Groups, but these two tips are pretty great too: “One other thing I thought of tha…
Ah, the simple option is often best. Just close the Workset that has Levels and Grids on it in the Manage Links dialog. See image: Idea from this post on Revitize (it uses language related to older Re…
“You can’t do that in Revit” is a common catch-phrase for those who do not know the program well. Happily, there are people out there who do know how to do those things in Revit – you just have to fin…
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Have you noticed this in 2014? If I can borrow some imagery from Caddman13 on the Autodesk Forum, this is what it means:Unticked: Ticked:…
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Let’s say you have inherited a multi-storey project that has been set up with Model Groups for Typical Levels – not necessarily a bad thing (see this post). There are a couple of things that do scare …
You need to save as PNG – but not any old PNG will work. I have consistent success using Paint.NET, deleting the “background” so it is empty (checkerboard), then saving as a PNG. But here’s the main l…