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It wouldn’t be a BIM blog post without inventing some obscure, never-to-be-used again abbreviation would it? In this case, actGSACuse stands for ‘active Graphisoft ArchiCAD users‘. I tweeted this imag…
There is plenty of information available about Component Stairs in Revit 2013. I thought I would collect some of the better resources and post them here. This first link is a little bit outside-the-sq…
The family that is created matches the Category of the host or original family. Evidently, it is this functionality that allows this to occur:Save an In-Place Family as an RFA for use in another proje…
Julien Benoit has put together a nicely paced introduction to Adaptive Components. Some quotable quotes: “The future of Revit family creation – adaptive components.” (at time 1:13:52)“all our knowledg…
Here is what we want – you select an in-place family and click ‘Convert to Component Family‘ on the Ribbon. Through API Wizardry, the following happens without any further user interaction: The family…
Rethinking BIM is a kinda awesome new BIM site – you should definitely check it out. There are lots of videos and downloads available. Some of this stuff looks like it has been collected or derived fr…
Nice ‘checklist’ style post over at RevitKing. Most things just come back to sensible modelling:Revit.King’s BIM coordinator/ Revit Blog: Optimal performance for Revit!!! One of the tips:Create a fami…
Have you ever wanted to make a Component Family with the Category set to Walls? Or Roofs? Or some other system Category? There are no templates for this, and it doesn’t show up in the Family Category …
Do you have some awesome in-place families that you would like to convert to normal Component families, so that you can load them into other projects? Here’s how: Open the Project containing the In-Pl…
I was playing around with the RSS search engine today, and I came across the RevitComponents site. SERVICE | RevitComponents.com It has an interesting mode of operation: Our aim is to showcase profess…