My Reactor Treetop
After reviewing Andy’s and Tim’s recent posts surrounding trees and reaction, I would like to contribute this little idea. Its a very simple setup – just a 2pt Adaptive with an “extension” (created by…
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Creating a Generic Schedule for Custom Data in Revit 2014
In previous versions of Revit, Key Schedules were often used for generic data, general notes and the like. However, Key Schedules have limitations – one of which is that you cannot insert an image in …
Schedule with Date Checking Mechanism against a global constant
You can do a logical test between a Project Parameter (in essence, a global constant for this Revit file) and an element parameter in most schedules. If we leverage this for Rooms, we can check if the…
Dynamo Revit Test Framework (by Ian Keough)
From the github page:uses a python script to automatically generate Revit journal files. When run, these journal files handle opening a specified model, instigating the testing plugin, and running the…
Presentation on Asite cBIM
Is anyone using this? Seems to be a competitor to BIM360 / Glue / Revizto? These “collaboration” tools are starting to pile up quickly… This can be downloaded if you login to SlideShare: Open embedded…
Copying Point Clouds between Local Drives
Typically, large point clouds are stored on local hard drives. Revit allows for this with the Options – “Root path for point clouds” setting. Here is an easy way to copy them: Use Robocopy. (Should be…
Utility to always paste Clipboard text as Plain text without formatting
When working with Revit, Excel and even coding, sometimes we want to paste text without formatting. There are various ways to do this, but I think this is the easiest… Download and unzip the appropria…
KiwiCodes Bonus Tools – a powerful timesaving toolset for increasing Revit productivity
In some ways, vanilla Revit is like the base model option package of a new vehicle – no shiny wheels, 20 speaker sound system, or sports handling package. But some add-ins can make you feel like you a…
Using Keyboard Shortcuts in a Schedule View
Revit Keyboard Shortcuts don’t work too well in Schedules, because Revit thinks you are trying to input data. However, you can use the alternative key entry method – basically, it starts by pressing A…
Using a Saved Selection Set as a Filter to make Demolished items transparent
It can be difficult to stop Demolished items from occluding New items in Revit. There is no easy way to say “make everything Demolished wireframe, but leave other elements as-is” in a Hidden Line view…