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I came across an interesting issue today. We were automating Revit data parameters for a mandated IFC deliverable, but we came across some Shared Parameters that were added incorrectly (wrong Paramete…
Around 9 months ago I decided to step back from the majority of my consulting work and focus on Deep Space, a digital construction project intelligence platform built by myself and Michael Clothier. A…
Yes, I’m going to do this. I’m going to write another post about a widely used term and try to untangle reality from the fiction. Let’s talk about the term “AI”… Mr Gates wrote a compelling article re…
Is anyone still here? Yes!! And it isn’t an AI bot either! I know it has been a bit quiet around What Revit Wants lately, and you might have guessed that it has something to do with a little startup c…
I’m very excited to report that the Deep Space platform continues to rapidly evolve, bringing exciting updates that empower civil and infrastructure projects. In a recent release, Deep Space introduce…
As part of a very bad Cloud Model upgrade experience (a story I will tell some other time…) some models failed to upgrade. I was trying to upgrade a file from Revit 2018 to Revit 2022. After upgrading…
Back in 2016 I put this simple, messy sketch together to describe some basic terminology around Revit models and how they are structured: Revit Model: Category Family Type Instance (also known as “Ele…
These files are from a presentation I did in May 2017 called: Filters Always Win, and Other Ways to Be Better at Revit In the handout especially you will find a lot of Revit tips… check it out! Files:…
Problem: I was recently trying to link Revit models to a federated file on Revit 2021. The models were failing to link, but no error message or warning was provided. The federated host model and the l…
I have been receiving a few requests for access to files that were previously linked to What Revit Wants via Google Drive. Somewhere along the line, Google (in its wisdom) decided to change security r…