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Have you ever spent ages typing into a web form, only to press submit and be served a message like “Error=remote_computer_lost_your_hard_work” or even just a blank page? If this has just happened to y…
I hope you enjoyed my previous post about how to index networked content. If you wish to tweak some more settings or even move your Google index, you should install TweakGDS. This is a small plugin ut…
You want to know where the KeyboardShortcuts.xml file is stored for Revit® 2011 products after customizing keyboard shortcuts… The KeyboardShortcuts.xml file is stored in the following folder location…
There are many sources of content out there, the main ones being Seek and RevitCity. Sometimes, a content provider will attempt to obfuscate the links to the original files, so that you can’t just com…
A big tip for new players: Never import a DWG file. And never, ever explode an Imported DWG file. Nothing good will come of it. Trust me. Instead, do this (in order of preference): Use Revit natively,…
This is awesome. Let’s say you have a project with heaps of families in it, and you want to save them to individual files. There is an API add on that does exactly this. How do you get it and use it? …
So you have added a bunch of Shared Parameters to your Project, but you never bother to set the ‘Group Parameter under:’ property correctly…you are naughty, aren’t you? It can make using Revit a lot e…
I had a bit of a problem using Revit OOTB (out of the box) parameters to group sheets by Revision, so I did it super-quickly using a custom parameter. Here are the steps: Add a new custom parameter to…
Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Revit_Wants (blog)…
If you are searching for Revit files on your local hard drive, try using the search tool Everything – its super fast. If you want to index local network shares, and you are: using a 32-bit OS – you ca…