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This has been a ‘best practice’ rule for a while now, but it still applies, even in 2017. You should not mix Revit 2017.1 and 2017.2 on a single Central File. This was flagged by pepar in the BIM Expe…
Revit doesn’t like big numbers. There, I said it. So when dealing with ‘world’ coordinates in a point cloud, sometimes things just don’t work too well. I thought I had this all solved recently by usin…
Details: Interesting addition to DWG export: Adds the option to export to DWG/DXF and DGN in True Color (RGB Values), as specified in the view. I previously used some weird round trips via DGN to get …
Fellow Expert Elite Karam Baki has posted an interesting workaround for ‘converting’ between differently hosted Revit families. The term converting isn’t quite accurate, really we are just ‘nesting’ t…
Details: Download: http://up.autodesk.com/2017/NAVMAN/Autodesk_Navisworks_2017_Update_2_Multilingual_Manage_64bit.msp Readme pdf: Autodesk_Navisworks_2017_Update_2_Feature_readme.pdf…
Every now and then, you come across a software product that makes complete and absolute sense. As a Revit professional, I have spent a lot of time learning how to use Revit: how to play by the rules, …
I have posted about SysExporter a few times before, but here is a little reminder… You can use SysExporter to grab text from almost any dialog box in any program in Windows. Let’s say you have a list …
Want to try something completely different? Start the Magnifier tool in Windows, set scale to 100%, then go to settings and enable “Turn on color inversion”. If you have a CAD user who doesn’t like th…
Back in March 2015, I posted a script that I had created to disable all Revit addins. That was put together in Powershell and was a pretty severe and somewhat ugly method to use. Happily, earlier this…
Manufacturers are really starting to get on board with Revit and create some interesting tools, like this one from SALDA. Basically, it connects their AHU selection software with a Revit addin that bu…