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Well, there are at least three: 1) Wall by Face tool, from a slanted Mass face 2) My Wall Component family, with adjustable angle and corner voids – download here(warning – unsupported workflow) 3) Th…
Sometimes you just need to hear an idea and you innately know “this is going to be useful…” Quick Select command for Autodesk® Revit® to select by element type and its properties. Expand the element o…
Did you miss the recent update to Whitefeet Tools? These are probably the oldest and most robust database editing tools for Revit. The highly experienced developer, Mario Guttman, is also actively wor…
Can you change built-in parameters from Type to Instance based, and vice versa? This post shows you can. The essence of the workflow is to start a family with the desired template, add a value to the …
I previously posted about Up and Running with Autodesk Navisworks 2014 by Deepak Maini a while back, but I think it definitely deserves another mention. Here is a selection of usability and productivi…
Let’s say you want to quickly schedule a particular Model Group’s instances in your project, and also be able to quickly “find” them in the project: Make a new Generic Model that can have everything “…
Have you ever wanted to rationalise your Topography as a Massing form, perhaps so you could use Divided Surface and panelization tools on the topo? Here is one method: Make a Site family with a vertic…
… all of the ASP/IIS pre-requisites can be satisfied in the 2012 server Add Roles environment…The key is getting ASP 4.5 registered in IIS 8. To do this there is an extra feature that needs adding in …
Did you know that any array in Revit can be switched between the Next and Last object methods? Just select an existing array – and have a look in the Options Bar… It will look like this in German: Rea…
In the past, whenever you built a parametric array in a family, you needed to handle the “break” condition – that is, if the array value drops to 1, you need an IF formula to actually keep it as 2, hi…