Remove Shortcut Arrows in Windows 7
From this: To this: By doing this: Shortcut Arrow – Change, Remove, or Restore – Windows 7 Forums…
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Beware of Windows Update – nVidia Graphics Adapter WDDM1.1, Graphics Adapter WDDM1.2
Windows Update is pushing an Nvidia driver update package as an Important update now (they are usually offered as ‘optional’). In my case, it was listed as:nVidia – Graphics Adapter WDDM1.1, Graphics …
How to reset the scale of an imported image to its original values
Once you have imported an image into Revit and then warped it (by unticking the Lock Proportions box and resizing it), then it is not immediately evident how you can reset it to 1:1 (its default X:Y s…
What is your favourite image editing program?
Some of you may be surprised to know that Windows Photo Viewer and Office Picture Manager are not the only ways to view and edit image files 🙂 Here are three of my favourites: 1) Irfanview has been up…
Free utility that will sort all of your families by Category!
From time to time, I export all of the families in a project and add it to our Library as a ‘snapshot’ of where our families were at during that project. However, Revit still does not export the famil…
The difference between an Active Dimension and a Selected Label in the Revit Family Editor
There are at least two distinct ways to move an item via dimension edit in the Family Editor, but they can have very different results. See video:Open embedded content: www.youtube.com My video is dir…
Extents of Revit 2013 Railings bug – when no balusters exist in definition
Basically, when all the balusters are removed from a Railing definition in Revit 2013, I have observed that the ‘flip control’ moves far away from the Railing itself, leading to view clipping errors. …
MeshMixer 08 released
meshmixer08 is available for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X…Windows(tested on Win7 x64) [meshmixer08 Win 32-bit] (Latest: October 26, 2012) [meshmixer08 Win 64-bit] (Latest: October 26, 2012) Ma…
Using Divide and Repeat for Site Masterplanning
You will find below a visual diary of some site master planning options – the Divide and Repeat tool was used to layout out the units. Here is a very concise how-to: Make a new Mass or Adaptive family…
Face Based, Wall Hosted Lighting fixture with nested Plan Annotation Symbol? Yes!
Very cool and advanced workaround by Jose Fandos over at Andekan:We will route around this limitation by first inserting the annotation family into another face-based family, and using this intermedia…