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Productivity tip for loading families: Open a new Explorer window and browse to the location of your Families (or the Metric Library) Use Vista ‘Search’ to quickly find the family you want to load. Mu…
Assertive BIM
I learnt something interesting yesterday. I learned the difference between being Aggressive, Passive and Assertive. An Aggressive person will totally disregard your opinion and basically ‘bite your he…
Revit 2011 Secret #12 – Ambient Occlusion Tip
One of the Most Viewed Knowledge Base Issues relates to the inability to print using the ‘Ambient Occlusion’ option. There is a very simply way to get around this. Just use ‘Print Screen’ on your keyb…
buildz: Wall Trimming Method
Awesome post from Zach at this link. This is kinda what I alluded to back in my post about Adaptive Components (when I said there would be some ‘neat workarounds and tricks’ coming out). This certainl…
Properties Palette craziness – solution
After a few emails back and forth to a very helpful person at Autodesk, I finally tried putting both the Properties Palette and the Project Browser onto the ONE MONITOR – and the problem disappeared! …
Unpredictable Properties Box Behaviour
If you select multiple views in the Project Browser in Revit 2011, how would you modify their common properties? If you attempt to directly modify them in the open Properties palette, they are not mod…
Make a wish…
If you haven’t already heard, AUGI Wish List voting is now open. Have a vote for Revit features here or AutoCAD features here.…
Inconsistency of Dialogue
Its great that we can now resize some of the dialog boxes in 2011. But the flaming Tag All Not Tagged box still doesn’t resize!…
Revit 2011 Secret #11 – Customize QAT
Wow, Revit is starting to finally allow some actual customization of the User Interface! If you intend to use the Quick Access Toolbar a lot, have a look at the new things you can do – such as sorting…