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Luke Johnson

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Don't Clean Join where only two Walls are involved?

Have you ever tried to access the Wall Joins tool where you have only two walls meeting? Such as in a T intersection scenario like this: On my Revit 2014 system, the Wall Join modifiers will not activ…

2014-01-30 · Luke Johnson
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What good is a Ceiling Tag?

It is one of the few tags that can directly access the Level parameter – quite useful, even to the point where I created secondary Design Option called Level Tagger with a bit of Ceiling on it, and th…

2014-01-29 · Luke Johnson
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Making a Truly Curved Curtain Wall Type in Revit

HyunWoo Kim describes how to make a Curtain Wall that has actual curved glass panels (uncommon, but possible) by making a Curtain Wall type with a Basic Wall as the Curtain Panel masquerading as Curve…

2014-01-29 · Luke Johnson
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Detail Item Family with Adjustable Text – Dimensioning Tool

This little family is surprisingly useful: Particularly good for situations where you want to dimension something but you can’t access the “host elements” – or you are worried the host witness lines m…

2014-01-29 · Luke Johnson
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A Change is Coming…

Something new. A small team,With big experience. What am I talking about? 7 days to go……

2014-01-27 · Luke Johnson
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Direct XML Editing for Navisworks Search Sets

Daniel Gijsbers uses Notepad++ to do some quick editing and creation of similar Navisworks search sets: “Let’s create a couple of searchsets that will find the same parts but on different levels.” He …

2014-01-27 · Luke Johnson
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Material Batch Deleter for Revit

helps users search materials from project document and delete them with a single click. The search condition supports logic “and” (& or &&) and “or” (| or ||) to make the search more efficient.Downloa…

2014-01-27 · Luke Johnson
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3D DWG to RFA addin for download

Paolo is on fire this month! Check it out (code download link): Original post: http://puntorevit.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/3d-dwg-to-rfa-quick-update.html…

2014-01-23 · Luke Johnson