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Navisworks is pretty amazing at handling a huge set of properties across a large amount of elements. However, sometimes it can be hard to diagnose why a particular parameter, such as a Shared Paramete…
Here’s how: You would like to assign OmniClass numbers using the 2012 standards but are not able to because the default file shipped with Revit provides numbers from the previous standard. Symptom: Wh…
Direct link to Revit 2016 Update 1 for R2: http://up.autodesk.com/2016/RVT/Autodesk_Revit_2016_R2-x64_UPD1.exe Readme: http://up.autodesk.com/2016/RVT/Autodesk_Revit_2016_R2_UPD1_Readme.htm Release no…
Links below: IFC for Revit 2015 (v15.6): http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aifc2015_windows32and64%3aen IFC for Revit 2016 (v16.3): http://apps.e…
When setting up View Filters in Revit, you can only select Filter parameters that are ‘common‘ among the Categories that you have ticked… If I haven’t lost you yet, here is a quick way to build a View…
subtitle: Most Revit hacks ever in one blog post?? Have you ever faced flex duct modelling problems in Revit? Revit fails to generate these in some cases, usually when the spline becomes too tight for…
To try V-Ray for Revit public beta: 1) Create an account or login at chaosgroup.com, then 2) register here 3) wait Heads-up from Brent Heber… more details at http://www.v-ray.com/revit/…
I have posted about CADtoEarth before, but here is a quick 5 minute video using the latest version: Open embedded content: screencast.autodesk.com You can also import building models to Revit from Goo…
BIM360 Docs site is now live at: http://bim360.com/docs/ Previously known as Project Alexandria, the official media release can be read here. And the ‘announcement’ video can be viewed here: https://b…
I saw a question like this on the forum so I had a quick go at it (see image below). Basically it checks what Family Types are placed against those loaded into the project, and then deletes unplaced c…