A really small piece of Revit pi
This post was prompted by this from Darren Snook. Firstly, let’s see actual pi to a decent level of precision:3.1415926535897932384626433 Can Revit handle high precision pi calculations? As a test, le…
Luke Johnson
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Turn Revit drawings into hand sketches
Sometimes, you may want to make your Revit drawings look more like hand sketches – either to make your design look somewhat less concrete than it may already be, or simply for presentation purposes. I…
Vico BIM Webinars for free viewing
The Fridays with Vico webinars are a free, educational series geared towards general contractors and owners… topics range from BIM trends, to case studies and best practices, to new concepts for the i…
BIM Videos – via Autodesk BIM Curriculum
Product Tutorials Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2011 Video TutorialsBIM Curriculum for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Management tutorials Autodesk and Yale University BIM Symposium As BIM…
Revit is too smart for your dense hatch patterns
If you have problems with your Revit Filled Region hatch patterns displaying grayscale when they should be black, its probably because Revit thinks that the lines are too close together for the scale …
Speeding up the Revit 2013 Materials Editor
Many of us were quite disturbed by the 2013 Revit Materials Editor. Aside from its usability (or lack thereof), it seems to be much slower than the 2012 Materials dialog. Until Revit 2014 comes around…
18000 free families from familit – Revit Family Library
While familit do have a browser / content manager add-in, this is a paid product (if you are looking for free family browser, check out tools4revit). However, the family content itself at familit is f…
The Mystery of Family Categories
EDIT Current category guide post: https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/2013/09/new-crowdsourced-and-open-source.html In Revit, some families have Cut Dominance, some are Cuttable, and some respect various Vie…
Revit Pranks
In ye olde AutoCAD days, there were a plethora of ways to mess with your fellow users. The sheer amount of obscure yet powerful system variables gave endless opportunities for frivolity. In Revit, not…
Free Revit furniture families from HighTower Group
Just head over to this link: 3D: Revit – HighTower…