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There is a lot of practical wisdom presented in this recent article by Gensler’s Jared Krieger. He recommends against “BIM execution plans as long as 50 pages, with page after page of information and …
EDIT: This seems to be broken in 2014 at this point. Even if you have it working in 2013, when you open in 2014 it will “break”. I’m unsure if there is a good workaround yet… Absolutely awesome workar…
“As an alternative to controlling Revit tools and analysis features using the Options dialog > User Interface tab, you can define the DisciplineOption setting in the Revit.ini file.” Use this link to …
Key website for E57 data and resources:http://libe57.org/ Some basic info from the website: Is the E57 format XML? The E57 specification uses a subset of XML that has been extended to support efficien…
“quickly connect … Revit models to the GRAITEC Advance suite and then optimize the design of their structures in accordance with North American and Eurocode standards and produce effective and error-f…
Turn the Underlay on for the Level that shows the items you want to Tag Tag the Item/s Use Linework tool on the items that you have tagged. This is important – if you don’t do this, then the Tag will …
I wanted to grab a list of files so I could check if I had reviewed the contents of some MEP training videos. You can easily do this using a Windows Powershell script. Code example: get-childitem “T:M…
Its interesting to note that Revit LT can actually modify elements that it cannot create. What if you created a ‘library’ type Revit LT project, and then copied (or just moved / modified) these elemen…
My somewhat involved workaround for this in the past has been: 1 – Make a thick wall type (like 1m or more) 2 – Draw these walls very ‘tall’ (above and below building vertical extents) around your pro…
An announcement was made recently on the “Revit Deployment & Management for Medium Sized Offices” Udemy course (see here for more info): We seem to have just discovered an interesting “bug” in Deploym…