Why should you use the Workplane Viewer?
Have you ever used the Workplane Viewer? It looks like this: When you open it, a new window opens and orients itself to the current workplane. This window is the Workplane Viewer. Revit Wants you to b…
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Woodhead – from Hotels to Hospitals to Airport Terminals (and yep, they use Revit :-)
Many of you will know that I made a significant move about 3 months ago – I moved my young family over 2000 kms and took a new position working for Woodhead in Adelaide. It has been an exciting and ey…
New crowdsourced and open source project – a complete Revit Category Guide
Having repeatedly asked and searched for a detailed, up-to-date and accurate Category Guide for Revit to no avail, I have decided to start one as a simple shared Google spreadsheet. The purpose of thi…
Recap for Windows XP – get it while it lasts
The current version of Recap Pro runs on Windows 7 and 8 (download link). However, for the time being you can still download Recap version 1.0 from this link:http://labs-download.autodesk.com/us/labs/…
Adaptive Components and Profiles
You can host profiles onto the nodes of a divided path (line), however they can’t be conventional Revit profiles, they must be adaptive components – they can be quite simple drawn in 2d (XY axis) with…
Seven More Tips from Twitter
#Revit productivity – Set your Room Name in Properties *before* placing the Room, then drop Tag + Room in correct location in one click.— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) August 19, 2013 Ctrl+C a Schedule…
Navisworks and PCG Point Clouds
Navisworks may have issues importing PCG point cloud files. For example, if you try to append a PCG directly to Navisworks Manage 2013, it will say “No plugin exists that will open pointfile.pcg”. If …
Free SuperFilter add-in for Revit 2014
Download it at:SuperFilter | Autodesk Revit | Autodesk Exchange Apps It has a dockable interface, shows number of objects and can list ID of elements, as per the translation from this Russian site: No…
Changing "Show only if Instance is cut" for a Generic Model Family
Generic Model families can be a bit overbearing when it comes to visibility. Unfortunately, you can’t usually change the Show only if Instance is cut property for Generic Models… unless you switch the…
Making a COBie Enabled Project in Revit
You can request the templates from Autodesk using this form. COBie Toolkit for Autodesk Revit 2011Download Now COBie Toolkit for Autodesk Revit 2012Download Now COBie Toolkit for Autodesk Revit 2013Do…