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Let’s say you have a family that has shape handles for instance dimensions (Length Parameters). What if you want to use it for quick prototyping, and then switch that same family into a version that u…
Sometimes, What Revit Wants is a specific Annotation Tag family of a unique Family Category, like View Reference. When you go to create a new Family, you probably won’t find a Family Template for ‘Met…
If you have gone through a process of saving Central models, and you have forgotten to ‘Synchronize with Central’ before closing them for the first time, you may find that your user has all User Creat…
You may have experienced this error when upgrading a file to Revit 2018: One or more required internal settings are missing from the model. What do you want to do? Autodesk Support has stated that “In…
I once built an auto-sizing Fire Pipe Fitting using a Formulaic method (where the various fitting sizes were driven by the Revit intersection variable), so I was interested to read about a similar str…
Here is a list of the main Revizto Keyboard Shortcuts: (Shortcut) – Action (2) – 2D (3) – 3D (4) – Issue Tracker (ctrl+O) – Open project gallery (ctrl+shift+O) – Import project (ctrl+R) – Rooms (ctrl+…
Revit gets a new version every year, and every year we theoretically have to upgrade our Revit files. If you are a pro-active BIM Manager, you also have to upgrade a bunch of families and other files.…
Here’s how: The following command should successfully silent deploy Unifi 3.1.1 to your network. msiexec /I Unifi-admin.msi /qn Download the Unifi .msi at: http://installer.discoverunifi.com/Unifi-adm…
Autodesk recently announced the retirement of the Building Performance Analysis Certificate (BPAC). You have 3 days left if you want to complete, as per this note: Until December 15th 2017, you can en…
Firefox 58 Quantum resulted in our old extensions not working anymore. But if you want to enable extensions and keep using them, here’s what you need to do: Download and install Firefox Nightly from h…