Legacy Mass Forms – follow up
With regard to my recent posts about using legacy mass forms, I would like to let you know how Autodesk responded to some feedback I gave them.Basically, I used the Feedback Form at this link to make …
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Design Options and Elevation Crop – Head Scratcher
Here is the problem: An elevation crop region is not visible. It cannot be turned on using any of Visibility/Graphics settings. The problem is not anything to do with the ‘Show Crop Region’ switch. Th…
Using legacy mass forms in 2010 and 2011
By ‘legacy mass forms’, I mean the nice, simple kind – sweeps with editable profiles, extrusions with sketches and the like. The problem with 2010 and 2011 massing is that you cannot create these nice…
Bending the Rules with Adaptive Points (2011 Secret #16)
You should all know something about adaptive points by now. I will here describe how I recently used them to solve a modeling problem. Basically, I need to create a surface that was quite irregular – …
Revit 2011 Secret #15 – Subscribe
I am quite sure that I was the first to post about the Web Update for RAC 2011 (please feel free to correct me if I am wrong). So I thought this might be a good time to encourage you to subscribe to t…
Maintenance Update 1 Available for Revit 2011
There is a Maintenance Update available for Revit 2011 x64. Please use the link below to download the update for 64-bit:http://updatesdl.autodesk.com/updates/files/rac_x64_ur10.exe For 32-bit:http://u…
New Website Page Launch
Dimond Architects have launched an exciting new landing page for their website. Check it out: Please email us if you would like to know more about us.…
Content – Links and RevitProfessionals updated
There has been a few posts about Revit content recently, one being at http://chrismounts.com/content/places-find-revit-content and another at http://excel2bim.com/revitbim/?p=2238. These are related t…
Make your computer read to you
So you have some electronic information that you really want to read, but you just can’t find the time? You are madly Revit-ing away, and you have some PDF training files that might really help you, b…
Lost your Centerline Symbol text?
Let’s say you have isolated a few categories, and you have included Dimensions so that they are still visible. However, your dimensions are no longer showing the Centerline symbol text – do you know w…