Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.
If you have an analogue watch and a laser mouse, you can easily keep your computer “active” by setting the mouse on top of the watch, no software or computer tweaking necessary. Keep Your Computer Act…
After selecting an Import instance, you can choose to Full Explode or Partial Explode. Most users realise that exploding is a bad idea, and it can get very messy. In fact, a number of experienced Revi…
…
The author of RevitToday posted a comment on one of my posts yesterday, so I went to the blog to have a look. He has provided a couple of extensions you can download: Export XYZ from Revit 2011 This e…
Here are some of my most popular posts from the last 2 years: How to use the new Keyboard Shortcuts Dialog and Tips Make a Good…Impression Workflow (simple guide from Revit) Unpredictable Properties B…
If you haven’t discovered the Autodesk Building Youtube channel yet, now is the time. Here is a link to the RSS: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/AutodeskBuilding/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=…
Let’s say you want to take a door from one Level of the building, then use the Create Similar tool to make an instance of this door on a different Level. This is quite easy. Just open a view from each…
Have you struggled to install nview on Windows 7 64-bit? Here are the steps: Step 1 – Download the latest Drivers from the nVidia website Step 2 – Download WinRAR (you could use 7-zip) Step 3 – Open t…
I don’t know about you, but the two main ‘Advantage Pack’ features seem a little boring to me. I can certainly see that Revit Server will be useful for large multinational companies, and the environme…
You learn something new every day (hopefully). Today, I learnt about the Super Nudge feature: f you are zoomed in yet want to move more quickly hold Shift + Arrow Key. This will increase the nudge dis…