Section Box with Perspective 3D Views
As we all know, Revit really wants you to be able to properly visualize your building. You may have experimented with Section Boxes in normal 3D views, but you can also use them in Perspective/Camera …
Luke Johnson
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Worksharing Monitor – Free System Performance Utility
First off, if you are working with Central/Local Files and Worksharing, then I encourage you to head over to Autodesk Subscription, login and get the Worksharing Monitor. Then, open Revit. Go to the ‘…
Calling all Revit Bloggers…
Please feel free to join my new group on LinkedIn. It’s aptly named ‘Revit Bloggers’. To join, simply log in to your LinkedIn account, and in the Search box select ‘Search Groups’ and type ‘Revit Blog…
Resizing and correcting 'warped' images in Revit
Let’s say you have imported an image of an existing floor plan into a Revit view, but it doesn’t quite look right. When you scale the image, it appears to be warped in either the ‘X’ or ‘Y’ direction.…
Find Elements Associated with a Particular Level
Have you ever had to pick up someone else’s project and try to figure out how it all goes together? Or maybe you were trying to delete a level, and Revit just went ahead and deleted all associated ele…
Revit wants you to smile occasionally…
If you are struggling to get through the day, check this video out. It made me smile.…
Subscription Webcast: Solutions to Common Problems Experienced by Autodesk® Revit® Architecture Users
“In this webcast, we explore the most common problems experienced by Autodesk® Revit® Architecture users. Autodesk experts will teach you techniques for overcoming the most common issues, including: V…
Locking computer during printing or exporting causes Revit to become unresponsive – REPOST
I find it quite funny that one of the ‘solutions’ to this problem is…don’t lock your computer (“you can prevent this behavior by not locking the computer when printing or exporting”). Thanks a lot! Re…
ArchiCAD to Revit and IFC Optimizer
You may be unfortunate enough to have to translate a BIM model from ArchiCAD into Revit. I have done this in the past (with limited success) using IFC. However, I was browsing the AUGI Forums today an…
"These are a few of my favourite things…"
No doubt there are a few utilities that you just can’t do without. Here are a few of my absolute favourites: CutePDF Writer – just brilliant, and its free! 7-Zip – best archive utility (in my books), …