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Revit Wants you to transmit ‘detached copies’ of Central files for linking into other models. If you ignore this and transmit your Local copy instead, Revit always remembers where that instance of the…
Matteo Cominetti’s BCFier is one of the most useful, free addins for Revit when it comes to working with BCF files. And it also includes a free standalone BCF viewer. You can download latest version h…
Direct download:http://revit.downloads.autodesk.com/download/2016RVT_RTM/Media/DLM/Autodesk_Revit_Server_2016_English_Win_64bit_dlm.sfx.exe Source: Autodesk Revit Server 2016 | Revit Products | Autode…
ArchVision has just released a new content subscription service, initially focused on Revit construction details, called Detail Warehouse. What is it and how does it work? Read on below… Quote:The DET…
A couple of interesting new endeavors have appeared online recently that I wanted to share. The first is from Autodesk, and they are encouraging you to learn and use keyboard shortcuts. I have posted …
Revizto is getting better and better with each release. However, you may find that your company firewall is blocking the exe download. In that case, you can use these alternative direct MSI download l…
There was an API addin available a while back, but in recent years I have used: the Case Batch Export Family RFA’s tool https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/2012/12/how-to-determine-if-family-is-in-place.html…
This is a pretty basic lesson, but just in case you aren’t doing it already… Adding a default value to your input nodes can make your custom nodes much more useful (and possibly easier for others to u…
I got a virtual tap on the shoulder from Brian Nickel over at The Revit Saver today. He said he had been “searching for an answer like this for a year or two, and the guy posted it two days ago overse…
Have you ever wondered if there are API commands for addressing or automating Type Catalog information in Revit? A recent post from Jeremy Tammik covered some of this. In it, he discusses the differen…