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A long while back, I posted about an OBJ Exporter for Revit by Jeremy Tammik. Looks like there is another way of doing this now, and it has been released for Revit 2014 and 2015. The purpose behind th…
Let’s say you have 15 RVT links in FileA, and you want to copy them into FileB. Revit doesn’t usually want you to have two instances of the same linked file loaded into two different open files in a s…
IFC Exporter for Revit 2014 (v3.11):http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aifcexporterforrevit2014%3aen IFC Export Alternate UI for Revit 2014 (v2.11…
Read the whole post:RevitCat: Revit Repeater Instance Parameters…
There are two additional recommendations I would make to the Autodesk solution below: use a Generic Model inplace family, and the import can be placed on an additional Subcategory to allow for easier …
Read Marcello’s whole post at: Simply Complex: Applying IK in the Revit Classical Family Editor (one application… Folding Doors) or watch his video:Open embedded content: www.youtube.com…
Konrad has posted a video along with Dynamo nodes to demonstrate the management of tags based on their host type. Fire rated walls receive a certain tag, while non-fire rated receive a different one. …
Al Gore has posted 2.5 hours of free Revit tutorials for beginners over at: Learn REVIT – REVIT FAMILIES AND COMPONENTS He provides these starter files: Revit Cabin Starter File Revit Cabin PDF file a…
My idea from 4 months ago: So, maybe its not Glue… with the benefit of current knowledge, maybe its Project Skyscraper, or some combination of these. But the External Reference possibility starts to m…
This can be done with AutoCAD MEP 2015, or Architecture, or similar verticals that have the IFCEXPORT command. Open AutoCAD MEP New DWG file IMPORT -> select SAT file IFCEXPORT Open IFC in Revit The a…