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To lock to the current selection Right-click the ViewCube and click Lock to Selection. If Lock to Selection is checked when a view orientation change occurs, the ViewCube uses the selected objects to …
A great post over at Revitdialog has unlocked this mystery for us. Just a little addition to that post – I think it is important to tile your windows first, then do the ordering process. In other word…
In the right-click menu, select Orient to a View, Floor Plans, and then select the desired floor plan to orient to. Image from Applied Software Blog The view will automatically crop the view using the…
To change which orientation that the Revit ViewCube thinks is the ‘Front’ for a specific view, check out the video below, or scroll down for the quick step-by-step. Orient the view to the orientation …
I knew that you could select the ‘camera’ element of a 3D View by right-clicking the 3D View name in the Project Browser and clicking ‘Show Camera’. However, I did not realise that you can also select…
Interesting video on AutoCAD Exchange over at this link. The main point of the video is – if you want to work with Solids in AutoCAD effectively, you should correctly set the DELOBJ system variable. W…
As we all know, Revit really wants you to be able to properly visualize your building. You may have experimented with Section Boxes in normal 3D views, but you can also use them in Perspective/Camera …
There are many ways to present a building in context (with trees, vehicles and other entourage) in Revit 2010, but they fall into two main categories – using a Shaded view or using a Rendered view. At…