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Let’s say you have a set of Excel files and you want to feed that information into one Excel file, to allow you to do summaries or produce Charts. How would you go about it? Here is one way: Install P…
Did you know you can use a Revit Room schedule to quickly tell if a Room is Not Placed or Unenclosed. Here’s the clues: Unenclosed will still show Highlight in Model in ribbon: Not Placed will not sho…
I recently had the pleasure of presenting at the 1st Build SA event of the year. Overall, it was a very informative event that packed heaps of useful content into a half-day of presentations, labs and…
Did you know you can override the lineweights and colors of a Generic Annotation or Tag and its Leaders in Revit? You can use Visibility / Graphics annotation tab like this: But what if you have two T…
Cool! My Lumia 930 and Surface Pro 3 will be all happy now 🙂 The 123D family recently expanded to include 123D Catch and 123D Sculpt+ for the Windows Store. 123D Catch is also now available for Window…
2015 may be remembered as ‘the year the BIM podcast became a reality’ (among other things, I’m sure 🙂 Here is a list of recently established but active podcasts related to BIM and the Built Environmen…
Konrad Sobon has released a very cool and powerful new node package for Dynamo called Bumblebee. I did some very basic beta testing on some of his code a while back, and it looked promising then. It h…
Dante van Wettum has again updated and released his excellent free utility to cleanup all the bits and pieces Revit leaves behind. You can download Revit Journal Cleaner 2 here:http://gdurl.com/Wavm…
We have been told that Dynamo core code can eventually support network sharing of custom node definitions. In the meantime, how can you share custom nodes between a few different pcs and laptops, keep…
You can use HATCHGENERATEBOUNDARY in AutoCAD to recreate the boundary of a Filled Region that you exported to DWG. You may be asking “why!” Well, if you have a bunch of Filled Regions and their sketch…