Remove all Views not on Sheets
… by using a very wild script from dp Stuff! Comes with a disclaimer:Warning! Make sure you don’t run this script on your central model – detach it from central first. Because once the views are gone …
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Convert Family from Wall to Face based
Have you created a heap of wall based families that you would like convert to face based? Jarod Schultz provides a nice workaround for this. Essentially, you Link and then Copy/Monitor the elements, t…
New Revit 2014 SDK, and the gbXML2dwfx tool
Two great tips via The Building Coder today. Firstly, the updated Revit SDK is available for download from here. Here are some links: Revit 2014 SDK (Update April 24, 2013) (exe – 217899Kb) Revit 2013…
Using Whitefeet Parameter Math tool to copy a untaggable System parameter into a Shared Parameter
In the image below, I show the basic process used to drive a Floor Area parameter into a manually added shared parameter. Obviously, this scenario is not ideal – the data link isn’t dynamic, so we hav…
Extensions for Revit 2014 available for download on Subscription portal
Check out your Subscription page:…
Use 3ds Max to prepare geometry for Smooth surface import into Revit
This is a great post / video from pedroeron on RFO. It essentially shows you how to hide the edges of imported geometry (such as from Sketchup), so that when it imports into Revit, you only see the sh…
Material Library bug? (library in Template File)
Here is the fix: If you unload the material library from the template, save it, close Revit, reopen, create a project from your template and add the Material Library there: not a problem. It’s all the…
Including Project Parameters or Area Schemes from Linked Models in a Schedule
It may not be immediately obvious how you can quickly transfer Project Parameters or Area Schemes between linked models (to allow scheduling of linked RVT data in a host project). Turns out the answer…
Super Tag
Some of you probably already realise that Case Apps have released a suite of Subscription tools (in other words, these are not free). One in particular caught my eye – Super Tag. It provides a “simple…
BIM Documents and Standards – big list for download
I can’t recall how many BIM document PDFs I have downloaded over the years. There are web indexes of the indexes of the lists of standards you can access… But here is a simple list by Ben Malone:https…