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Let’s say you have exported all families in a Revit project to a bunch of folders by Category, but you want to get them all into one folder so you can drag-drop and load them all into a new project al…
2013:IFC Exporter 2013 (v2.15.1):http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aifcexporterforrevit%3aen IFC Export Alternate UI for Revit 2013 (v1.13):http://a…
DisableMPPAutoApply is the revit.ini setting which essentially stops Revit from automatically applying changes from Properties Palette based on cursor movement. Interesting, Aaron’s tweet below shows …
From Revit Randoms – Download the files here: Upgrade_PurgeUnused.zip Extract to a folder of families you want to purge. Copy the first family in your category and paste and rename it in the same fold…
From Philip Chan’s blog:The concept is simple, I make a Generic family (it can be any category actually) as a solid (in this case, just a simple extrusion), let the family intercept the curtain wall, …
No surprises that this comes from Zach over at Buildz… Download link: http://buildz.info/downloads/20130810_glare.zip Video and more info at the original post:http://buildz.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/dyn…
Sometimes you can run into Revit installation errors. There is a good “checklist” of steps to take to try and get past these over at RevitDE. It includes things like disabling UAC and antivirus progra…
CEO and President of Autodesk Carl Bass stated: “Today we are taking an important step on our path toward delivering a better manufacturing experience. Together Autodesk and Delcam will help further t…
In a highly detailed and well-researched article, Daniel Davis tracks the use of the term “parametric” in mathematics and follows it into computer software, including Digital Project and Revit Technol…
ThreeSixtySharp is a C# library for working with Autodesk’s BIM 360 Rest API. “It is possible this could be expanded to work with Glue as well in the future.” Check it out at: https://github.com/frank…