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I hope that you found my previous post on batch printing with automatic naming helpful. But what if you want to add a prefix or a suffix to all PDFs in a set? Some firms like to add the current revisi…
After reading The Revit Clinic post about Plan Regions Wall Cleanups, I was reminded of a similar problem I had with Plan Regions and Wall Hatching. I had a problem where the hatching would disappear …
Have you ever wanted to copy the text from a Windows Dialog, for use in training, blogging or other support related tasks? Then you should check out the free SysExporter. It is available in installabl…
Interesting post over at BIM + Integrated Design. It includes 14 Rules for Living In, Out and Around BIM.My blog has dealt with ‘What Revit Wants’ in more than a few posts over the last few years. So …
If you would like a free tool that gives you a very quick, concise summary of your system specifications, you can download one from here:System Spectrum Analyser Please see the related posts below if …
I traditionally use Free PDF Tools from PDFill for this kind of task, but there is a download available today at giveawayoftheday.com for Foxonic Professional 4.0.. There is still 8 hours remaining to…
Sometimes you will want to produce a large set of PDFs where each drawing sheet is in its own PDF file. You also want the PDFs to be automatically named and created. There are a number of ways to acco…
This is one of the most exciting blog posts I have read for some time:http://revit.blogspot.com/2010/03/accessing-project-parameters-in.html from Jay Polding at revit in plain english. Essentially, in…
Have a look at this page from Revit Architecture Services and Support if “You want to know in what order cascading licensing checks for available licenses for Autodesk 2010 products.”…
Sometimes you will want a component family to ‘always’ show a certain label. In other words, you do not want to have to manually ‘tag’ the family after placing it in project. How can we do this?Basica…