Rotating Section text with the Section Line
Have you ever wanted to control the text on your Sections, even forcing the text to be rotated / aligned with the Section Line itself? If so, check out the information and links below. From Oliver Lan…
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Calculating the U-value of walls in Revit
What is the U-Value? It is:Also known as the U-factor or coefficient of heat transmission, a measure of the rate of non-solar heat loss or gain through a material or assembly. U-values gauge how well …
SOLVED: Area Calculation Totals – Rounding and Precision
Thanks to one of our readers, we have a solution for the schedule precision problem described here. The comment below the lines gives the formula to convert an Area into a rounded number in a schedule…
Create New Local checkbox not available? Why it happens, and how to fix it …
Daryl Gregoire posted about this recently and I found his post very helpful. In the past, if the checkbox was grayed out to ‘Create New Local’, I would just manually copy the file to my C: drive, appe…
Revit gaining popularity as FM tool?
FM, or Facility Management, is sometimes thought of as the sixth dimension of BIM, or 6D BIM. Mario Guttman, creator of Whitefeet tools, reposted an interesting video / case study by David Mettler sho…
Reinforcement add-in for Revit – Preview Version available for download
The goal of this Preview Version of “SOFiSTiK Reinforcement for Autodesk® Revit®” is to enable the productive design of 3D reinforcement with Autodesk® Revit®. This particularly includes the creation …
The ViewCube – more than just a screen decoration?
If you want to learn some more about the View Cube, check out:Scott Chatterton: Revit View Cube Tips One thing that Scott doesn’t mention in this particular post is How to change the ‘Front View’ on t…
Free Email to RSS Forwarding
The problem – you want to subscribe to an online newsletter, but they don’t offer an RSS or Atom feed. You don’t want to disclose your personal email address. You can use the following service to set …
Polyline to Spline and Back Again – AutoCADisReallyGoodForSomethings
There are a few freely available applications for AutoCAD that allow it to do some powerful spline editing – tools we don’t have in vanilla Revit just yet. You can use the tools below to do some line …
ArchiCAD and Revit Interoperability – Free Downloads
Free Add-In developed for use by Autodesk Revit programs in the Structure and MEP disciplines. This application is recommended for use with IFC-based model exchange between GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD and Rev…