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Let’s say you have 50 sheets with one viewport on each, and you want to nudge all those viewports around the sheet a little bit. Difficult? Use a couple of nodes from Bakery to grab the Viewport eleme…
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If you have done a clean install of Autodesk products, you may find that the older versions of Application Manager are a bit slow to get going. Just install version 5 straight up to get things updatin…
Press release: link here Main page:http://academy.autodesk.com/ Advanced Dynamo: http://academy.autodesk.com/curriculum/bim-advanced-computational-design Previous post: What Revit Wants: In case you m…
This Labs project was distributed a while back, but it timed out and the addin won’t usually run anymore. Its purpose was basically to import a .RIF file from cadMEP back into Revit with some intellig…
Paweł Romaniuk has shared his workflow to take various parameters from a model, run the necessary algorithms and then write the area back to a parameter for use in a Revit schedule. Link to pdf downlo…
There is no immediately easy way to override the colour of an entire Revit Link. Of course, you can set up a View Template and override all of the individual subcategories, but that can get time consu…
It is pretty difficult to change the Workset of Pipe Insulation. The Properties Palette allows you to change them one at a time (but not multiple), while the method I posted about previously can chang…
Check out Project Alexandria:http://www.projectalexandria.io/ Thanks to @michaelclothier for the heads-up on this one… You can enter your email and sign up to find out more. They will send you this su…
This uses the Media Creation Tool. I was running Tech Preview build 10041 on one of my devices and it wasn’t automatically getting the Windows 10 RTM upgrade, so I used this method instead of waiting …