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2015-06

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Select All Elements in Revit using List of Category Names

Cooking in the Bakery today: From here we could export a list of Element IDs to CSV, make a Selection Set by Elements using Clockwork, or use one of the Select in Revit nodes. As you can see, to make …

2015-06-15 · Luke Johnson
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Navisworks Manage 2016 Service Pack 2

Most of these are bug fixes, and some BIM360 Glue integration performance improvements. Details and direct links below:Autodesk Navisworks 2016 Service pack 2 delivers user experience and stability im…

2015-06-10 · Luke Johnson
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Double-click to go directly to linked cell in Excel

Something you might find very useful in BIM world, where Excel currently thrives and will continue to do so for the foreseeable(?) future. You need to adjust this option: And then if a cell references…

2015-06-09 · Luke Johnson
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Better Sketchup to Revit Conversion via FormIt

Check out this excellent forum post by Tobias Hathorn, in which he describes the best workflow for Sketchup to Revit conversion via FormIt 360. Interestingly, the major steps are: Install Revit addin …

2015-06-09 · Luke Johnson
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How to Check for Inplace Families, the Dynamo Way

I’ve added this checking node to the Bakery package. Much of the credit goes to Andreas Dieckmann for the Family.IsInPlace node in the Clockwork package: You may also be interested in copying a non-sc…

2015-06-03 · Luke Johnson