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a Revit plug-in that you can assign 5 of your most often used views.It is super simple in operation. When you run it for a very first time none of the views are set and you have to set those that you …
EDIT: The free content at vyonyx has been moved to http://www.gobotree.com/ Are you getting tired of using the same RPC people and trees in all your Revit renders? Maybe you should try adding some of …
I spotted this cool graphic a while ago on Revitez, but it was in French. Ben Malone has gone to the trouble of translating it into English for us – thanks mate! via BIMopedia Online Original post (Fr…
Sometimes you may have to deal with a very long list of Line Styles in Revit. Unfortunately, there is no ‘Recently Used’ list in Line Styles! The keyboard can be used to scroll in the Line Style selec…
Is the future of BIM to become IBM? BIM is not just about creating more detailed and accurate models; it can bring about a lot more intelligence into the design process, where it is not necessary to p…
Doug Bowers posted a very informative how-to recently about Autodesk Material Libraries. He shows you how to create a material library, add materials to it, and then share it with other users. A coupl…
Download RevitAddinWizard/RevitAddinCoder/RevitAddinWidget More API wizards at http://spiderinnet.typepad.com/blog/2011/05/revit-addin-wizardscoders-and-revit-api-widgets.html via RevitAddinWizard Bui…
EDIT via MLD in the comments:In a 3D view;1 Ensure Section box covers all elements by,Unchecking then rechecking ‘Section Box’2 Select some objects and the section box3 Temporary isolate elements4 Unc…
I have spent hours trying to figure out how to take actual camera locations from 123D (Photofly) and get them into Revit as ‘real’ cameras (3D views). I thought it would be cool to be able to use a re…
Interesting message when linking a Group to a new RVT file… basically, if you have a Model Group in your project that has Excluded Elements (either deliberately or due to some unavoidable issue) and y…