Feel The Space – The Lumion 7 Review
Design is a funny thing. The word itself carries a certain weight, it is somehow deliberate and exciting at the same time. Yet, so often design is let down by the poor translation or communication of …
Luke Johnson
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Using the Selection Box Tool Anywhere in Revit
Selection Box is a new tool in Revit 2016 that allows you to quickly crop a 3D section box around selected elements (without installing any addins). However, it doesn’t always show up on the contextua…
Just Getting Started with Revit? Check this out…
This site usually focuses on intermediate to advanced workflows and topics, but here I just wanted to mention a couple of getting started resources that you may find useful. There is a new and compreh…
How To Allow Duplicate Detail Numbers on a Revit Sheet (and yes it is #BadRevit)
Revit Wants you to have a unique Detail Number for each Viewport placed on a Sheet. This makes total sense, and allows you to trace from a Referencing View, through a View Tag (telling you which Sheet…
Workarounds for Sharing Colour Overrides From Navisworks to BIM 360 Glue
Recently I had an issue sharing colour overrides from Navisworks to BIM 360 Glue. This has been ok for a while, but something broke. After some investigation, it turns out that one of the sub-Models i…
Revit 2017.1.1 Update Download Links
Direct download link for Revit 2017: http://up.autodesk.com/2017/RVT/Autodesk_Revit_2017_1_1.exe Readme: Autodesk Revit 2017.1.1 Fixes Readme Release Notes: Autodesk Only Available Online…
How To Display Multiple Instances of a Single Linked Revit Model In Different Ways
In Revit, each Link is bound to both a Type and an Instance. So you can have one Link ‘Type’ – relating to a single RVT file that is linked into the project. But it can be placed multiple times in the…
One Way To Work Quickly With Large Federated Revit Models
A federated Revit model is a model containing many Revit links, and they can be quite slow to work with. There are a few steps you can take to speed things up, and one of them is creating a set of fas…
Reset Navisworks to Default Settings
If you have a Navisworks crashing or Navisworks not starting up problem, you might try resetting Navisworks settings. Here’s how: Open Windows Explorer Type %appdata% in the address bar Rename the rel…
Upgrading Corrupt or Problem Models in Revit, and How to Fix Spot Elevation Not Detecting Linked Element
Ok, two unrelated issues here, but both are along the lines of “weird stuff that happens in Revit that can be fixed but doesn’t always make sense”. If you use Revit long enough, you will certainly com…