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Interestingly, this hotfix comes in the form of a macro to clean up your files. The issue as stated on the Autodesk Knowledge Network is:In Revit 2015 the performance of some file is very slow. This m…
Short version: Edit View Title Family Turn on the reference planes in the Visibility / Graphic Overrides, select all three items. Rotate these items opposite of what you think to offset the rotation o…
I’ll be the first to admit that this is a bit clunky, but it does work: Go to the Navisworks viewpoint you want, and isolate a single element (hide everything else) that approximates the view extent C…
From MRUG:You can download the back catalog of video Revit tips and tricks from both the Manchester and Midlands (now wound up) Revit user groups from prior to meeting 8. After meeting 8, tips and tri…
Have you ever tried getting thumbnail images to show up for Entourage families? After reading a few tweets on this recently… I’ll admit, using a Journal “script” to open family, switch to Elevation Vi…
A recent post on Ideate Solutions reminded me of a handy Revit Extension that you may not be aware of:Shared/Project Parameters Download Revit Extensions for Autodesk Revit 2015: Multiple Languages (e…
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }A:link { }It is my pleasure to announce the winners of the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse Pro Wireless competition that I launched a month back. After hundreds of entries, the foll…
Download at:http://www.autodesk.com/revitsundial Autodesk tweeted across their Twitter ecosystem that you can “See what we are working on…” with this Sundial Release. I don’t think it is a leap of log…
The focus of Autodesk Navisworks 2015 Service Pack 3 is the resolution of Revit interoperability issues. Service Pack 3 does resolve issues identified in other parts of the product, we recommend you r…
In one recent post, Paul Crickard describes how you can use a URL field in a Revit schedule to: open documents or images open a video open a map or facility plan to a specific geographical location re…