Revit 2011 Secret #4 – Save View to Project as Image
When you right-click on a view in the Project Browser, you can now save that view to the project as an image:…
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Revit 2011 Secret #3 – Tag Through Revit Links
Tags can now be placed on items inside Revit links. I’m sure that this will prove very useful for many of you.…
Revit 2011 Secret #2 – Right Click Recent Commands
As with AutoCAD, Revit 2011 now provides a Recent Commands submenu on right-click: You can also see here that the Persistent Properties can be turned on and off using the right click menu.…
Revit 2011 Secret #1 – Persistent Properties Palette
Over the next few weeks, you are going to be flooded with information about the new versions of Revit. Rather than posting extremely detailed and exhaust-ive (-ing) blog posts, I thought I would give …
Ribbon Tab Tearoff = Crash? Fix here…
I recently stumbled across the fix for an issue that has annoyed me for ages. The problem we had was that Revit would always crash when tearing off any ribbon panel. This issue affected two of our hig…
Autodesk Software Download – FAQs
You can now download a ‘Customer Questions and Answers’ document from Autodesk, relating to the Autodesk Software Download process. It is available at this link, but you will need to login to Subscrip…
Autodesk Product Upgrade Download Page
If you are a Autodesk Subscription customer, you should login to the subscription site and check out the new product download page. You can now download the current release as well as the previous rel…
Part 2 – How to Print a large set of drawings to individual PDFs with automatic naming (renaming resulting PDFs)
I hope that you found my previous post on batch printing with automatic naming helpful. But what if you want to add a prefix or a suffix to all PDFs in a set? Some firms like to add the current revisi…
Plan Regions and Wall Hatching
After reading The Revit Clinic post about Plan Regions Wall Cleanups, I was reminded of a similar problem I had with Plan Regions and Wall Hatching. I had a problem where the hatching would disappear …
Copy text from any dialog in Windows (including Revit!)
Have you ever wanted to copy the text from a Windows Dialog, for use in training, blogging or other support related tasks? Then you should check out the free SysExporter. It is available in installabl…