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Have you ever experienced the “Missing Third Party Updater” message? It comes about when an Updater (addin or macro) is in use, and then does not exist on a PC that is new to the project. From sasha.v…
Nice work from Troy Gates over at:Revit Coaster: BIM Consortium Revit Add-in First Release Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B16E2YBKmeUtbmZsNDFIUmJHMm8/edit Instructions for installation are…
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Have you ever tried to access the Wall Joins tool where you have only two walls meeting? Such as in a T intersection scenario like this: On my Revit 2014 system, the Wall Join modifiers will not activ…
It is one of the few tags that can directly access the Level parameter – quite useful, even to the point where I created secondary Design Option called Level Tagger with a bit of Ceiling on it, and th…
HyunWoo Kim describes how to make a Curtain Wall that has actual curved glass panels (uncommon, but possible) by making a Curtain Wall type with a Basic Wall as the Curtain Panel masquerading as Curve…
This little family is surprisingly useful: Particularly good for situations where you want to dimension something but you can’t access the “host elements” – or you are worried the host witness lines m…
(using Paolo’s addin:) Download and copy dll and addin and copy to C:ProgramDataAutodeskRevitAddins2014 Unblock the DLL (right click Properties in Explorer) Addin should automatically be available in …
Something new. A small team,With big experience. What am I talking about? 7 days to go……
Daniel Gijsbers uses Notepad++ to do some quick editing and creation of similar Navisworks search sets: “Let’s create a couple of searchsets that will find the same parts but on different levels.” He …