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Aaron Maller, aka twiceroadsfool, has been sharing his Revit door family package on RevitForum for the past few years. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can check out his post in the thread here:http://…
If you are having problems, try manually loading families like this: “Hi Russ.I believe the issue is that you first need to load the Site Designer families (from C:ProgramDataAutodeskSite Designer for…
Have you ever tried getting thumbnail images to show up for Entourage families? After reading a few tweets on this recently… I’ll admit, using a Journal “script” to open family, switch to Elevation Vi…
A great way to test if you know What Revit Wants is to try and run a complicated high rise or health facility using model groups. The principle and general functionality of groups is fine, but they ca…
Screencast by Aaron Maller: Viewing this content requires Silverlight. You can download Silverlight from http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight. Open embedded content: external media via Twiceroadsfo…
“You can’t do that in Revit” is a common catch-phrase for those who do not know the program well. Happily, there are people out there who do know how to do those things in Revit – you just have to fin…
DisableMPPAutoApply is the revit.ini setting which essentially stops Revit from automatically applying changes from Properties Palette based on cursor movement. Interesting, Aaron’s tweet below shows …
Aaron Maller has been travelling a lot lately, but he still found the time to upload some of the recent presentations that he has delivered: Glasgow Revit Users Group- PDF. Glasgow Revit Users Group- …
Many of us were quite disturbed by the 2013 Revit Materials Editor. Aside from its usability (or lack thereof), it seems to be much slower than the 2012 Materials dialog. Until Revit 2014 comes around…
Steve Stafford and Aaron Maller are both awesome Revit guys. Both of them have a Screencast library of videos that you can freely view. Here are the links: RevitOpEd’s library aaronmaller’s library Yo…