Free Extension Downloads – RevitToday
The author of RevitToday posted a comment on one of my posts yesterday, so I went to the blog to have a look. He has provided a couple of extensions you can download: Export XYZ from Revit 2011 This e…
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Top Posts #1 – What Revit Wants
Here are some of my most popular posts from the last 2 years: How to use the new Keyboard Shortcuts Dialog and Tips Make a Good…Impression Workflow (simple guide from Revit) Unpredictable Properties B…
Heaps more videos from Autodesk Building
If you haven’t discovered the Autodesk Building Youtube channel yet, now is the time. Here is a link to the RSS: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/AutodeskBuilding/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=…
Create Similar tool persists while switching Open Views
Let’s say you want to take a door from one Level of the building, then use the Create Similar tool to make an instance of this door on a different Level. This is quite easy. Just open a view from each…
Using Nvidia nview with Windows 7 64-bit
Have you struggled to install nview on Windows 7 64-bit? Here are the steps: Step 1 – Download the latest Drivers from the nVidia website Step 2 – Download WinRAR (you could use 7-zip) Step 3 – Open t…
Subscription Advantage Pack – meh
I don’t know about you, but the two main ‘Advantage Pack’ features seem a little boring to me. I can certainly see that Revit Server will be useful for large multinational companies, and the environme…
Super Nudge
You learn something new every day (hopefully). Today, I learnt about the Super Nudge feature: f you are zoomed in yet want to move more quickly hold Shift + Arrow Key. This will increase the nudge dis…
How to edit 'My Places' names using the Registry
In RAC 2011, we can not directly modify the display name for a ‘My Places’ entry in the Open dialog. This needs to be done in the Registry, as described over at Do U Revit in 2009. I made a brief vide…
Dimond Architects – Theatre Slideshow Video
I recently composed a number of images (generated in Revit) into a video slideshow. See below: Here is a link to our website Contact us…
15 Videos – Getting Starting with Revit Architecture
The AutodeskEd YouTube channel recently uploaded 15 videos that should be very useful to you if you are getting started with Revit. 00 Video 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 If you are intere…