Autodesk Revit 2017.2 Update Download Link
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 …
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Convert Between Hosted Wall, Face, Ceiling, Floor, and Non-Hosted Families in Revit
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…
Export List of Missing Material Images from Your Revit Model
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 …
How To Get Inverted User Interface Colours in Revit
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…
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…
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…
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…