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There are now 9 apps for Revit 2014 uploaded to Autodesk Exchange that are classed as “Subscriber Benefit Apps”. These are basically standalone install packages for things that are bundled up in the R…
As most of you know, I love keyboard shortcuts. Harry shows you how you can map an external tool to a keyboard shortcut to make this happen: Open embedded content: www.youtube.com viaSetting a view’s …
Just in case you haven’t seen it yet – you should check out this great thread on RFO:…….Index to Tips and Tricks…….…
… by using a very wild script from dp Stuff! Comes with a disclaimer:Warning! Make sure you don’t run this script on your central model – detach it from central first. Because once the views are gone …
Have you created a heap of wall based families that you would like convert to face based? Jarod Schultz provides a nice workaround for this. Essentially, you Link and then Copy/Monitor the elements, t…
Two great tips via The Building Coder today. Firstly, the updated Revit SDK is available for download from here. Here are some links: Revit 2014 SDK (Update April 24, 2013) (exe – 217899Kb) Revit 2013…
In the image below, I show the basic process used to drive a Floor Area parameter into a manually added shared parameter. Obviously, this scenario is not ideal – the data link isn’t dynamic, so we hav…
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This is a great post / video from pedroeron on RFO. It essentially shows you how to hide the edges of imported geometry (such as from Sketchup), so that when it imports into Revit, you only see the sh…
Here is the fix: If you unload the material library from the template, save it, close Revit, reopen, create a project from your template and add the Material Library there: not a problem. It’s all the…