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Some of you have had problems installing Revit. Perhaps running the Program Install and Uninstall Troubleshooter via Microsoft Fix it portable will help? I recommend using the following link. After do…
Here is how you can assign a material parameter to a painted surface in a family: Go to Family Types dialog box Add – Material Parameter Paint Choose the material that you made – it will have the suff…
I received a comment on my previous post to a Revit Forum page that links to a nice PDF you can download and stick on your wall – it shows the Unicode values for most of the special characters that yo…
There has been a lot of talk recently about real time rendering, about using game engines as visualization tools on BIM platforms, and generally about making an awesome 3D development environment that…
Actually, there is only one main reason. Biased and overly optimistic blog posts and marketing dogma do not really benefit long-term Revit adoption. They often lead to inflated expectations. These bal…
Well, it can make you happy. A lot of it depends on your attitude. Nice feel-good comment on Autodesk BIM Blog quoted below: Revit also plays in your personal life a great role. Both agree, Matthias S…
There has been a lot of talk recently about BIM, VEO, M-SIX, Phil Read and Project Sauron. What does this all have to do with Revit? I guess time will tell… Want to keep up to date? Then follow the li…
Have you struggled with the Show only if Instance is cut option in the family element visibility settings. Was it grayed out? The following highlighted categories (wall hosted) have ‘Show only if Inst…
In AutoCAD, you can type %%c and it will get translated into a diameter symbol. Other control codes may be found here. However, I have found that this method does not import into Revit correctly. Inst…
CAD DesignDXF FormatPDF FormatSIM ModuleGPS System RAM Memory Get over it people 🙂…