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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 …
You can use the “Require” option. Any item that is set to “Required” will show as red, while normal unrequired items will remain black. This allows you to quickly, visually review two sets of models f…
Did you ever notice this little button, available in the Manage Images dialog in Revit 2015? Although it is pretty self-evident, here you can replace an image by reloading from a different one. You ca…
To simulate a temporary search set in Glue, select an object and view its properties. Then, right-click on the desired “search” property and click Select Similar: To merge Clash Groups in Navisworks: …
Go to https://geoauth.google.com/gev0/free_trial.html Fill out the form and submit Download Google Earth Pro and start install Check your email for username and the free key When installation prompts …
EDIT Thanks to Cornel for this great link, it shows a page with various flavours of the updates for Revit 2015:http://revit.downloads.autodesk.com/download/2015RVT_RTM/UR6/AutodeskRevit2015UR6andA360C…
In the Revit 2015 Project Environment, you can access the tools to Manage Selections from the Manage Ribbon: However, this Ribbon Panel is not available on the default Manage Ribbon in the Family Envi…
The (Windows) build is located here: https://screencast.autodesk.com/Pilot/ScreencastSetup.exe via NOW AVAILABLE – Autodesk Screencast Pilot Program (Windows version) As you can see, the UI is more mo…
The next generation of successful designers will have one important thing in common – the ability to quickly build the tool they need to accomplish a given task. Revit macro coding is one way to do th…