Adding a Filled Region to a Sheet
With simply a bit of back and forth into and out of a Detail Group, you can get a Filled Region onto a Sheet… You can watch Paolo demonstrate it here: Open embedded content: chronicle.autodesk.comhttp…
Detail Group
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How to list the views that a particular Detail Group exists in
Select all instances of the Detail Group (either through Project Browser or right-click menu). You will see in the Properties Palette ‘how many’ you have selected. Trigger the Group command Revit will…
Using the Load as Group command to update Edited Groups without saving them
Have you noticed this little gem? If you use the Edit command from the Project Browser for a Detail or Model Group, like this: … then you can use the Load as Group into Open Projects to update the gro…
One Mask for many Faces
Masking can be a real pain in Revit. Sometimes you just want to hide some bits of geometry on multiple views, but it is difficult to actually model what you want in 3D. So you may resort to Masking Re…
Using Attached Detail Groups for quick annotation – video example
Using groups for quick annotation – video example: via twiceroadsfool atGroupDemo1.wmv – YouTube…
Saving a Detail Group from Detail Component family actual saves RFA file
When you have a Detail Component family open, and you choose to right-click on a Detail Group (in the Browser) and ‘Save’ it, Revit actually saves this Group as a Family (rfa). The resultant RFA file …
Placing a Spot Dimension in a Detail Group
When in Edit Mode for a given Detail Group, the Spot Dimension tools are grayed out. However, if you place the Spot Dimension OUTSIDE the Detail Group, and then ‘Add’ it to the Group – Revit is quite …