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Revit Wants you to have a unique Detail Number for each Viewport placed on a Sheet. This makes total sense, and allows you to trace from a Referencing View, through a View Tag (telling you which Sheet…
Check your sample files for some cool resources, including a bunch of Repeating Details. On my Windows 7 64-bit system: C:ProgramDataAutodeskRAC 2012LibrariesAustraliaSample Files…
Over at ARCxl, you can download a bunch of Revit details for free. According to the website, these details were all created natively in Revit. The Terms of Use describes the proper way that these deta…
Here is how to do it: Select the detail item. Right-click > Select All Instances > In Entire Project Attempt ‘Group’ command It will fail with an error like this: However the resulting Error Report co…
Paul Aubin has posted his RTC files for download. In this package is a ‘Detailing Sandbox’ RVT file that includes a pretty comprehensive Wall Section that is annotated using Keynotes. There is also fo…
At this link:Nichiha USA, Inc. – Fiber Cement Building Products.…
Nice technique – copy revision clouds and then paste as detail lines… Revit Scratchpad: Fake Revision Clouds in Revit…
You learn something new every day – and today I was schooled by this Revit Clinic post – 3 Levels of Masking.…
Came across an excellent series of posts over at Revit Detail. If you go to this post, you can download quite a number of these videos for offline use.…
Sometimes you will want a component family to ‘always’ show a certain label. In other words, you do not want to have to manually ‘tag’ the family after placing it in project. How can we do this?Basica…