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In the past, a workflow was available in which you could rename older RFT files to RFA, then upgrade them to the most recent version of Revit (perhaps using a batch upgrade tool), then rename back to …
Use: lessmsi – A tool to view and extract the contents of an Windows Installer (.msi) file. – Google Project Hosting Extract the download, run lessmsi.exe, open the MSI file, click Extract, pick a fol…
Have you made something cool and architectural in Minecraft and you want to make it real? How about sending it out to Blender? Direct CG has made a tutorial to show you how … This tutorial covers: dow…
What does Revit eStorage do?Stores and Restores the data of an external file into Revit extensible storage on a selected element. Download Revit e-Storage link How to install (from the readme):Copy th…
Plan View 1 has a rotated crop, and you want to quickly make Plan View 2 ‘match’ it: In Plan View 1, draw a Scope Box to just within the crop region Optional – apply the Scope Box to Plan View 1 Switc…
Link to the presentation: 2012-04-10 – HARUG – Top 10 Revit Tools for Project Management and Panel Discussion – Presentation (pdf) When was it: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 via April 10th 2012 Meeting � …
Most of us use the old Reference Line with angular dimension method to control rotation in our vanilla Revit families. However, Marcello Sgambelluri has posted three alternative methods to control rot…
Here is a nice idea from the Revit Templateer – make an invisible project setup sheet so that you can see and edit ALL of the important project data in one place! Read more at: Revit Templateer: Proje…
As per the Revit Architecture 2013 Known Issues: Hardware acceleration is not available in the Parallels 7 environment, and Revit will revert to a DirectX 9 based software graphics mode, which will no…
Let’s say you have installed Revit 2013 but you want to use Revit 2012 as your default Revit for the time being (and I don’t blame you). Here are the steps from RevitForum (thanks Menschmal). Instruct…