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As you probably know, Forge is kind of like Autodesk’s way of opening up a model API for anything and anybody to connect to (over-simplified description, I know). If you do want to start playing with …
Revizto doesn’t strictly offer an API (yet) for connecting to its data. But you can use the command line to export an Excel file of all of the current issue tracker data. And you could schedule this e…
The first time you opened Revit, you likely found it pretty confusing. So many commands, so many ribbons, so many little buttons and drop down menus. Dialog box after dialog box… What’s a Family and h…
Let’s say you have a family that has shape handles for instance dimensions (Length Parameters). What if you want to use it for quick prototyping, and then switch that same family into a version that u…
Sometimes, What Revit Wants is a specific Annotation Tag family of a unique Family Category, like View Reference. When you go to create a new Family, you probably won’t find a Family Template for ‘Met…
If you have gone through a process of saving Central models, and you have forgotten to ‘Synchronize with Central’ before closing them for the first time, you may find that your user has all User Creat…
You may have experienced this error when upgrading a file to Revit 2018: One or more required internal settings are missing from the model. What do you want to do? Autodesk Support has stated that “In…
I once built an auto-sizing Fire Pipe Fitting using a Formulaic method (where the various fitting sizes were driven by the Revit intersection variable), so I was interested to read about a similar str…
Here is a list of the main Revizto Keyboard Shortcuts: (Shortcut) – Action (2) – 2D (3) – 3D (4) – Issue Tracker (ctrl+O) – Open project gallery (ctrl+shift+O) – Import project (ctrl+R) – Rooms (ctrl+…