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As part of a very bad Cloud Model upgrade experience (a story I will tell some other time…) some models failed to upgrade. I was trying to upgrade a file from Revit 2018 to Revit 2022. After upgrading…
Back in 2016 I put this simple, messy sketch together to describe some basic terminology around Revit models and how they are structured: Revit Model: Category Family Type Instance (also known as “Ele…
These files are from a presentation I did in May 2017 called: Filters Always Win, and Other Ways to Be Better at Revit In the handout especially you will find a lot of Revit tips… check it out! Files:…
Problem: I was recently trying to link Revit models to a federated file on Revit 2021. The models were failing to link, but no error message or warning was provided. The federated host model and the l…
I have been receiving a few requests for access to files that were previously linked to What Revit Wants via Google Drive. Somewhere along the line, Google (in its wisdom) decided to change security r…
If we head over to IFC 2020 | Revit | Autodesk App Store we can see the latest listed version of the IFC Addin for Revit 2020, which is 20.3.2. However, if we head over to revit-ifc Releases page on G…