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Coming from an AutoCAD background, it comes as second nature to me to draft bounds (boundaries) in AutoCAD. Set your Units to Deg/Min/Sec, set north to 0 degrees and use Clockwise, then start typing a…
At command prompt, type STARTUP and hit Enter. Type 2 and hit Enter. When you close AutoCAD and then re-open it, you will be greeted with a nice, clean screen with no drawing opened.…
I would love to be able to press one button and see all of the current Autodesk products that I have installed disappear. No, I’m not souring on Autodesk 🙂 It’s just that often the different suites an…
Alfred Huang has just uploaded the most recent NYC-RUG presentation to Vimeo: How to Do it All in Revit -Concept Design for Large Scale Projects – New York City Revit User Group (New York, NY) – Meetu…
It even gives me a step-by-step on how to do it properly. Revit is truly telling me What it Wants … and it doesn’t want to deal with Areas and Design Options! “Areas and Area Boundaries are not allowe…
Try this: Make sure that you are using the Face option for placing the component.Turn off the Original Path by selecting the Divided Path and using: Start the place Component command.Make sure that yo…
If you ever want to know when each Revit version came out, check out this page by David Conant: Revit Timeline (W.I.P.) So how many of you have used Revit 0.1 (November 1999)?…
Aaron Maller has been travelling a lot lately, but he still found the time to upload some of the recent presentations that he has delivered: Glasgow Revit Users Group- PDF. Glasgow Revit Users Group- …
I think Civil3D is a very powerful and useful tool. I have even found some ways to make it work nicely with Revit, by using it to do graphical slope analysis, or using it to increase Topography resolu…
You can use the Wall Opening tool to allow Revit Room elements to flow between spaces. Other methods are not very reliable or just will not work. So, don’t forget about this little button on the Ribbo…