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The family that is created matches the Category of the host or original family. Evidently, it is this functionality that allows this to occur:Save an In-Place Family as an RFA for use in another proje…
A couple of formula tricks from the CAD Shack: Pick One and Only One Here the condition number will allow only one paramter to be true in a list. Associated with a type, you could control a ton of th…
When making a standard perspective Camera View, Revit 2013 allows you to effectively preset View properties, so that all new Camera views look nice. These settings are from the BIM Technologist: Then,…
Windows 7 does not easily allow you to format a USB drive using the FAT32 filesystem. Some media devices do not understand NTFS, and they need drives to be formatted as FAT32 (such as PlayStation 3 / …
Civil 3D is really good at some things. I use it to perform graphic slope analysis on the site surface, which I then export and import into Revit as an image. There are various ways to clean up and br…
Something just dawned on me. Given that View Templates are my favourite feature of Revit 2013, wouldn’t it be cool to sort the Project Browser using the View Template field? Then we can quickly review…
Julien Benoit has put together a nicely paced introduction to Adaptive Components. Some quotable quotes: “The future of Revit family creation – adaptive components.” (at time 1:13:52)“all our knowledg…
I previously re-posted about some of challenges of adopting Revit in the foodservice industry at Revit: Problem Or Solution? A recent ‘tips’ post provides a couple of good guidelines, namely: When wor…
There is a nasty little bug that sometimes causes Backups (and any attempted Restore) to fail on a workshared project. The way to avoid this problem is so simple that it should probably be implemented…
CATIA (Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application) is a multi-platform CAD/CAM/CAE commercial software suite developed by the French company Dassault Systemes. Commonly referred to as a …