Revit 2018 New Features and Download Links
What’s New in Revit 2018 – Official blog:Google Cache Coordination Model Link:coordination model linking lets you use a Navisworks file as an underlay in Revit, making it easier to coordinate with out…
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Multi-format Support is Coming to UNIFI, and upcoming Webinar on Analytics and BIM Standards
We all know Revit is the best, right? But … there are a handful of people using other platforms 🙂 And I guess even the most dedicated Revit user has to use other content creation tools from time to ti…
How To Fix A Revit Model When Duct and Pipe Fittings are Always Created Undefined
You ever face a problem and you just can’t stop until you solve it? I came across a model recently that was like that… it was an Revit 2015 MEP file that had a serious problem: Whenever you created a …
How To Freely Switch Between Internet Browsers and Keep All Your Passwords in Sync
For years I have been an avid Firefox supporter, and to some extent I still am. However, Edge is getting much better (so fresh and so clean), and Chrome is really this ‘reference’ browser where most t…
How to Change The Size of Point Cloud Points in Navisworks
Navisworks works really well with Point Clouds, particularly in association with Recap. It will usually create ‘voxels’ – groups of points that you can hide or change colour or use in other Navisworks…
Automatically Split Up a Family Into Solid Parts
Parts allow some extremely powerful workflows in Revit. Did you know that you can take an in-place family, and when you Divide Parts, Revit will make an individual Part for each geometric element? For…
Revit 2018 New Advance Steel Features – Better Steel Connections
A few revealing hints from a recent BIM and Beam post: the forthcoming Advance Steel 2018 release next month will now offer seamless consumption of LOD 350* Revit models Autodesk’s Steel Connections f…
RevitLookup – March 2017 Update
Updated source code for RevitLookup available at:https://github.com/jeremytammik/RevitLookup/releases/tag/2017.0.0.19 Notes from The Building Coder:In the last few weeks, it was significantly restruct…
Autodesk Product Discontinuations for 2018
Bye, bye Showcase! Here are a few notes on Autodesk 2018 product discontinuations. I will add to these as more information becomes available.. Autodesk® Advance Concrete software has been discontinued…
Driving the Visibility of a Nested, Nested Shared Family where Hosted in a Curtain Wall Panel Door
Now that is a very Revit blog title, for sure 🙂 So I had a nice old Curtain Wall Panel Door family, which had a nested ‘container’ Generic Model family… … in which I arrayed a shared, nested Door Pane…