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Massive free time saver for changing or swapping fonts in a Revit project! Unfortunately, its not quite ‘everywhere’ – Generic Annotations need to be manually fixed. You can copy a text type to a Gene…
When working in 3D in Revit, you *can* use the normal dimension tool *if* you first set the Workplane. However, this can get annoying. Why not make a 2 point adaptive family, with a reporting paramete…
This little family is surprisingly useful: Particularly good for situations where you want to dimension something but you can’t access the “host elements” – or you are worried the host witness lines m…
Revit deals in realities. The reality is, many Rooms are not rectangular. So we can forgive vanilla Revit for not having a built in tool or method that could only really ‘guess’ at X and Y room dimens…
There are at least two distinct ways to move an item via dimension edit in the Family Editor, but they can have very different results. See video:Open embedded content: www.youtube.com My video is dir…
Beware of this one – someone setting the Custom dimension rounding to something strange like ‘3’: It can make a tidy Dimension Plan look terrible! More at: What Revit Wants: Revit Pranks…
In a multi-segmented, equality constrained dimension, you can use the anchor symbol to designate the anchored element. The element that is anchored remains stationary while you move other elements in …
Listening dimensions is the technical term for the little blue dimensions that appear as you start drawing a line in Revit. The bold entry is the one that Revit is ‘listening’ to the keyboard for. Whe…
Revit au Quotidien has picked up a few mildly scary issues when exporting to DWG from Revit 2013, one seems to be related to dimensions with Text Below, the other to EQ display of actual dimensions. H…
Check out this post from Revitez: Google Translate And this videoLink to video…