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Interesting question raised by Rene Pellicer Garcia on LinkedIn recently: I found that I just couldn’t make real Revit curved mullions (of the right category, schedulable, measurable, etc). Best I cou…
Big day yesterday in Revit updates, particularly with Revit 2017 Update 1 bringing some really cool enhancements, and the Dynamo Player! Here are some links and other information: Revit 2017 Update 1 …
When working in 3D in Revit, you *can* use the normal dimension tool *if* you first set the Workplane. However, this can get annoying. Why not make a 2 point adaptive family, with a reporting paramete…
If you have just scaled an object (such as a Raster Image) at a certain scale, did you know you can re-use that previous scaling method very quickly on other objects? Simply: Scale one element Select …
Ok, Parts are pretty cool, particularly when working with Linked Files. But there is a strange behaviour in Revit that exists between the Parts Visibility setting of a View, and the Parts category Vis…
in real life… via #RTCNA Revit 1.0! Check this out pic.twitter.com/K4k5HkYhbV — Paul F. Aubin (@paulfaubin) June 19, 2014…
Wow, Revit 2015 is setting some serious records for updates! Here is the direct link to the Update Release 14 for Revit 2015 R2: http://up.autodesk.com/2015/RVT/Autodesk_Revit_2015_R2-x64_Update14.exe…
Just a reminder on how this works, in the off-chance that you are confused… 2015 Products Use the Enhancements link from https://manage.autodesk.com/cep/#products-services/all 2016 Products Use the Au…
(insert obligatory Revit 2017 blog post here…) The annual Revit release schedule can become very tiring. Also challenging is the fact that you will probably not start running real, big, live Revit 201…
If you cut a sloping pipe in Revit, you can override the lineweight using Linework tool (or Visibility / Graphics) easily, because you are dealing with a model element. However, if you cut a ‘flat’ or…