Door handout and families from Steve
Very useful information from Revit OpEd – no surprises there! Handout:https://app.box.com/shared/7cdczhip68g67jrfbo9i Families:Click to Download the completed files for each exercise.Thanks to Steve S…
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Model Performance Technical Note – updated for Revit 2014
Direct link here Info: The Revit platform’s performance can depend as much on the knowledge, skill, and practices of its users as on the hardware environment provided for the software. To address both…
New version of IFC Exporter for Revit (v2.13/v3.5) and IFC Export Alternate UI for Revit (v1.13/v2.5) available
2013: IFC Exporter for Revit 2013 (v2.13): http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aifcexporterforrevit%3aen IFC Export Alternate UI for Revit 2013 (v1.13…
Creating Revit Geometry from Point Clouds (Points to BIM workflows)
Update:I am enjoying using inverted background (black) when working with Revit and point clouds. Also, you MUST use this add-in by Harry:What Revit Wants: 3D Section Box crop add-in WITH automatic rot…
Copy Path and Filename in Windows XP 64-bit
In Windows 7, I constantly used Shift+right click to access the Copy as Path option. To enable this in Windows XP, you can use: Path Copy Copy This works on 64-bit (x64) Windows XP too. I tried some o…
Tekla and Revit – making them work with each other?
Are you interested in Tekla to Revit (and back) interoperability? Then check out:Tekla-Revit Interoperability Forum | LinkedIn Various plug-ins and workflows are available which may help you coordinat…
Switching a Built-in Type Parameter to an Instance Parameter
Another nice workaround by Philip Chan – if you want to change one of Revit’s built-in Type Parameters (derived from a Family Template, such as Door Fire Rating) to an Instance Parameter, you just hav…
Are you at this level of Dynamo yet? Dynamo Fractals… by Stephen Elliott
These fractals can both be drawn by emulating a pen: we keep track of the direction the pen is facing, and we can make the pen draw lines of a certain length in its current direction. We can turn the …
The LOD discussion (debate?) continues…
Following the release of BIMForum’s LOD spec, there has been a bit of a blog discussion happening, involving at least the following three posts: practical BIM: LOD, are we there yet…using BIM for the …
Viewing a Schedule of all Painted Surfaces in Revit (including Split Face etc)
Great tip from Philip Chan. Basically: Make a Material Take-off / Multi Category Add the Material: As Paint parameter Filter by this parameter = Yes (now the schedule is only showing painted surfaces)…