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When it comes to Revit visualization during early design phases, in the past you had to pick from one of these options to add Entourage to your presentation: Use some placeholder geometric family, Use…
We have all used various autoSectionBox addins to adjust 3D View section boxes quickly. But if you want to quickly match a Section Box to a Scope Box without using an addin, try this: In a 3D view, se…
dp Stuff have updated their very cool Revit addins to work with Revit 2015, and happily I have three prizes to giveaway: Free Revit Utils 2015 and Randomizer 2015 pack Half-price Revit Utils 2015 and …
BIM One have released a new automatic color filter addin for Revit. It is very simple to use, and its free: Install the addin using the install tool (refer here for steps on using the addin manager) O…
Synopsis:This short paper sets out Andy Black‘s personal observations based upon four decades of working in the hospital world. Link Download the full white paper ‘Notes on the design of hospitals and…
From joan.allen on the Ideastation:..I’m happy to announce that you can view gridlines on the iPad app – and control the visibility settings of grids in both 2D and 3D view – with the BIM 360 Glue iPa…
This tip comes from Troy. He has provided a simple Dynamo definition to set the element Mark to Element ID. It is very fast, and I have tested it on a fairly large data set. As usual though, ‘use at y…
I’ve spent the past year working in a coordination role on the new Royal Adelaide Hospital project. The sheer number and complexity of the Revit models involved is immense. But here is something inter…
For some projects, Revit Warnings become a metric in model audit processes (this may be regardless of how much impact those warnings may have in real terms). For example, perhaps your model has become…
When building Revit addins, you may want to implement some specific selection filter. Here is some more good stuff via Alexander Buschmann and The Building Coder: The zip file SelFilters.zip contains …