FormIt to Revit via 360
Starting today, each new FormIt file you create (or old one you edit) will be converted to a RVT file – in addition to the SAT file you currently get. Of course, this all requires that you use your fr…
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Top Tips and Tricks PDF for Revit 2013 from AU2012
Top-11-Tips-Tricks-Revit-2013.pdf (application/pdf Object) Here’s a taste:3. Need a slope annotation on your ramp in a plan view? It can’t be done without this trick!Why won’t it work? Okay, I’ll chec…
Some simple yet very cool API and Macro tips
You may have already heard about Boost Your BIM – a new and quite prolific programming (API and macro) blog for Revit by Harry Mattison. If his recent posts are anything to go by, this blog should be …
Beware the P2P service orbitnet.exe (P2P service of Orbit Downloader)
Orbit Downloader recently brought our LAN to a halt. Where we should have been getting 2.2 mbps, we were getting 0.15 mbps. I eventually performed an isolation test along with some bandwidth tests. As…
Rattling the Act-gsac-use nest over linked libraries
It wouldn’t be a BIM blog post without inventing some obscure, never-to-be-used again abbreviation would it? In this case, actGSACuse stands for ‘active Graphisoft ArchiCAD users‘. I tweeted this imag…
AU2012 – the year AU became a twitterfest
Here it is – my little collection of AU2012 goodies. Images, videos, cool quotes (and don’t forget the tweets!) – everything from the last couple of weeks that I thought was worth posting is here. Enj…
How to determine if a Family is In-Place or not
Here is an easy way: Install Case Add-in Manager Using the Add-in Manager, install Batch Export Family RFA’s tool (I am running v2012.11.13.0) Open a Revit project and run the tool After families have…
Free Revit PDFs ( 36 PDF Books so far )
At this link: Revit PDF ( 36 PDF Books ) http://ebooks6.com/ looks to be some sort of metasearch / indexer for various types of documents. Heads-up:Revit Türkiye (CAD2BIM): BIM’in farklı alanlarda kul…
First steps in auditing a Revit model
A couple of concise tweets from some Revit legends: @jrostar Warnings, DWG links, Unused Groups, extraneous views, workset structure, phasing, design options, copy monitor, links, orphan tags— Steve S…
New Case App – access to any parameter from any category & pass it to a target parameter
I think this was previously called DataSlider. To get it, just close Revit and Vasari and open your Case Add-in Manager (it may want to update itself). Then tick the Migrate Parameter to Parameter box…