What Revit WantsA Black Grid publication
The Black Grid knowledge library

2020

Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.

Deep Space

Parsing a CSV with Line Breaks in the Data Fields

I was recently working on a multi-vector dataset comparison in Deep Space. We had received Revit, Navisworks and tabular data, and I was comparing 3 different data drops of that information, particula…

2020-12-26 · Luke Johnson
Revit Extensions

Missing Third Party Updaters in Revit And How to Fix

You might receive a message like this when opening a model in Revit: Missing Third Party Updaters An Updater is a piece of code that basically works to continuously sync a Revit model with some extern…

2020-06-07 · Luke Johnson
Deep Space

Deep Space Sync for Revit Updated

Over the past few years we have been building and refining a data platform for AEC and Infrastructure projects – we call it Deep Space. It has allowed us to manage huge projects, develop powerful anal…

2020-05-22 · Luke Johnson
Revit Updates

Revit 2020.2.2 Hotfix Direct Download

You can get the Revit 2020.2.2 Hotfix direct download here. Here are the Release Notes Release notes (reproduced below): The Revit 2020 updates and hotfixes are cumulative and include all changes from…

2020-05-15 · Luke Johnson
Autodesk Design Review

Download Autodesk Design Review 2018 and Latest Hotfix

Today I was trying to open a particularly stubborn DWFx file. In Autodesk Design Review 2013 it would stall completely. ADR 2018 would throw an error, crash or stall as well. I ended up using Autodesk…

2020-05-06 · Luke Johnson
Navisworks Updates

Navisworks Manage 2019 Update 5 Direct Download Link

Get Navisworks Manage 2019 Update 5 download link here. Fixes FBX Security Vulnerability • Fixes critical customer reported issues. There is no major file format or API change. Revit Files • Fixes pro…

2020-05-04 · Luke Johnson