Certified Revit Graphics driver list
The Autodesk Certified Hardware page allows filtering by the products you intend to use (ie. Revit). This page should be your ‘first stop’ when installing or updating your Graphics Card / Display driv…
Luke Johnson
Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.
Revit Journal Folder getting clogged up and very big?
Mine was at 3.2 gb today (see image): This is just a little reminder to periodically check your journal file folder and delete any old backups and journal files. You may be interested in this Autodesk…
Revit: Problem Or Solution?
An interesting little article that relates to the food service industry and the fact that Revit is something they may not want, but will have to deal with. Because Revit was not specifically developed…
Revit and points in DWG files when making topography
Sometimes you may have trouble using a DWG that contains ‘points’ to create a Revit topography. There are two main ways around this. METHOD 1 Here is a LISP routine to export points in a DWG to CSV fi…
Room computation height changed to instance parameter in Revit 2012
I can’t believe I had not come across this change until today. In Revit 2012, the Room Computation Height is no longer a Type Property of the Level – it is now an Instance Property. Some of the impact…
Finding views in the Project Browser
I received this comment to one of my posts:…Being new to Revit (2011) is there a way to locate newly created views in the project browser? Or do a search? Or am i stuck using filters? Comment link Her…
Are you an Einstein of Revit Families?
According to Einstein, people who properly create #Revit Families, are genius. “Intelectuals solve problems, genius’ prevent them.” #fb via Twitter / @revittotd: According to Einstein, peo ……
Project Planning and What Revit Wants
A recent post over at Revit Scratchpad deals with the issues of ‘user expectations’ and the importance of setting up a Revit project correctly from the beginning. Check it out:Revit can be amazing at …
Determining which Revision Clouds exist in a view
I was trying to delete a view today, and I got this Error:The Revision of this Revision Cloud has been issued. Deletion of this Revision Cloud is prohibited. So, obviously there are some Revision Clou…
Quickly review Error Report by parsing Element ID in spreadsheet
I find the Error Report – Warning – Select by ID process to be a little unwieldy in Revit (at the moment). Here is a little process that may speed things up for you when reviewing a Error Report in Re…