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At the risk of stating the obvious, learning is an important part of being a knowledge worker. But learning can be boring, right? There are a whole bunch of ways to learn and improve in our work skill…
Check out the links below to learn more and install. Model Checker for RevitOverview (Vimeo)Autodesk Model Checker for Revit 2018 shell install Quick Start Guide pdf Sample Files and other links Onlin…
Check it out at OpenRFA. There have been some similar attempts in the past. It is a bit of a challenge, because there will often be these ‘custom’ shared parameters that one company needs that are jus…
What’s New in Revit 2018 – Official blog:Google Cache Coordination Model Link:coordination model linking lets you use a Navisworks file as an underlay in Revit, making it easier to coordinate with out…
Massive free time saver for changing or swapping fonts in a Revit project! Unfortunately, its not quite ‘everywhere’ – Generic Annotations need to be manually fixed. You can copy a text type to a Gene…
We all know Revit is the best, right? But … there are a handful of people using other platforms 🙂 And I guess even the most dedicated Revit user has to use other content creation tools from time to ti…
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BIM is supposed to make things easier and more efficient, right? Then why do we often have to re-do work in different platforms, simply to get the result we want? Surely, we can do better… especially …
You ever face a problem and you just can’t stop until you solve it? I came across a model recently that was like that… it was an Revit 2015 MEP file that had a serious problem: Whenever you created a …
For years I have been an avid Firefox supporter, and to some extent I still am. However, Edge is getting much better (so fresh and so clean), and Chrome is really this ‘reference’ browser where most t…