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When setting up View Filters in Revit, you can only select Filter parameters that are ‘common‘ among the Categories that you have ticked… If I haven’t lost you yet, here is a quick way to build a View…
Following this tweet from Sean: @djnelson75 @lukeyjohnson that’s mysterious, especially since there’s nothing for signage and roads STILL doesn’t have a use.— Sean David Burke (@seandburke) September …
Having repeatedly asked and searched for a detailed, up-to-date and accurate Category Guide for Revit to no avail, I have decided to start one as a simple shared Google spreadsheet. The purpose of thi…
A while back, RevitCat got me thinking about the rules associate with family swapping in Revit. Here are a couple: You can change the Category of a family (using Edit Family, Load into Project) with a…
From time to time, I export all of the families in a project and add it to our Library as a ‘snapshot’ of where our families were at during that project. However, Revit still does not export the famil…
EDIT Current category guide post: https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/2013/09/new-crowdsourced-and-open-source.html In Revit, some families have Cut Dominance, some are Cuttable, and some respect various Vie…
I spotted this cool graphic a while ago on Revitez, but it was in French. Ben Malone has gone to the trouble of translating it into English for us – thanks mate! via BIMopedia Online Original post (Fr…
Have a look at the comparison below: So the new Categories that support Adaptive Components are related to either Profiles or Railings.…
Awesome post to Wikihelp by Ping Jiang, Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Autodesk. The short version: basically when the old stairs upgrade to Revit 2013 and mix with new stairs in the project, we…
Here is a little gift to all my readers. The link below allows you to download a 2012 version RVT project that contains In-place and Component versions of families that are of the Category ‘Stairs’ an…