Free Access to Revit Knowledge Centre
Revit legend Chris Price (cofounder of Xrev) has released a full Revit knowledge base over at this link: https://xrev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KNOW/overview It includes a lot of awesome + detailed se…
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Removing Stubborn Shared Parameters with Deep Space
I came across an interesting issue today. We were automating Revit data parameters for a mandated IFC deliverable, but we came across some Shared Parameters that were added incorrectly (wrong Paramete…
Revit Upgrade Error and Solution – This computer does not have enough memory to save
As part of a very bad Cloud Model upgrade experience (a story I will tell some other time…) some models failed to upgrade. I was trying to upgrade a file from Revit 2018 to Revit 2022. After upgrading…
Revit Model Hierarchy Sketch
Back in 2016 I put this simple, messy sketch together to describe some basic terminology around Revit models and how they are structured: Revit Model: Category Family Type Instance (also known as “Ele…
Downloads from Revit Lab Session
These files are from a presentation I did in May 2017 called: Filters Always Win, and Other Ways to Be Better at Revit In the handout especially you will find a lot of Revit tips… check it out! Files:…
Hotfixes for Revit 2019, Revit 2021 and Revit 2021 Direct Download Links
Following on closely from the release of Revit 2022, you may have seen updates to the previous 3 releases of Revit have been recently released. Here are some links to get you started: Revit 2021 Revit…
Where to Get the Latest Versions of the IFC for Revit Addin
The IFC for Revit addins that improve IFC import and export functionality are maintained at this GitHub site for versions newer than Revit 2018. In the past 2 weeks, updates have been release for all …
Automatically Converting Big Revit Elements into Fabrication Ready Components
Revit lets you model things that you can’t necessarily build, which shouldn’t surprise us given that “Revit was intended to allow architects and other building professionals to design and document a b…
How to Gain Access to Old Revit Versions
Every now and then you come across a project that is still using a super-old version of Revit (remember Revit 2017? Yeah, it was released about 5 years ago…) You might have found that your old version…
Parsing a CSV with Line Breaks in the Data Fields
I was recently working on a multi-vector dataset comparison in Deep Space. We had received Revit, Navisworks and tabular data, and I was comparing 3 different data drops of that information, particula…