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Have you noticed this little gem? If you use the Edit command from the Project Browser for a Detail or Model Group, like this: … then you can use the Load as Group into Open Projects to update the gro…
Basically this enables rich client access to Windows Server 2012 … you can install it via Windows Update or:Download Update for Windows 7 (KB2592687) from Official Microsoft Download Center Quote: To …
Beware of this one – someone setting the Custom dimension rounding to something strange like ‘3’: It can make a tidy Dimension Plan look terrible! More at: What Revit Wants: Revit Pranks…
You receive a DWG file from a surveyor, and you need to get it into Revit. You go through all the usual cleanup steps. You have purged, scaled, done a write-block, audited. You link the DWG into Revit…
You may want to do a very aggressive cleanup of your Revit file, getting rid of all Views while retaining all 3D elements as proper Revit elements. You can use the ‘Save to New File’ function to do th…
The Q3 Update includes enhancements to bridge modeling, integration with Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis Professional 2013, and improvements to the reinforcement extensions. Refer to the “Feature…
RFO Co-founder iru69 recently (14 October) updated his very detailed post on video cards and Revit at: Revit Hardware : Video Graphic Cards I recommend that you read this prior to investing in a new g…
EDIT: Updated Links Note – the Enhancements List shows a lot of improvements to stability, so this Update comes highly recommended. Revit OneBox / RVT (for Suites) Update 2 Revit 2013 UR2 (32-bit) (ex…
Do you want to join the Revit User Experience team and you have very specific experience in construction modeling? Autodesk asked me to post the message below the bar:You are an expert in modeling for…
I previously posted a way to generate PAT files from an exported DWG file. One of the comments to that post gives a great alternative method – so unique it actually made me smile. You may have noticed…