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You may have seen the “extents greater than 20 miles (33km)” warning in Revit before: Extents greater than 20 miles (33km) I have previously posted about ways to clean up DWG files, best and worst pra…
Ever had that annoying problem of your entire dwg showing up in Section Views, regardless of where it is cut? If so, check out this tip from Chad at Revit KB:…if you link the DWG into an In-Place Mass…
There are two additional recommendations I would make to the Autodesk solution below: use a Generic Model inplace family, and the import can be placed on an additional Subcategory to allow for easier …
(using Paolo’s addin:) Download and copy dll and addin and copy to C:ProgramDataAutodeskRevitAddins2014 Unblock the DLL (right click Properties in Explorer) Addin should automatically be available in …
We have come across a slightly annoying issue: someone modifies a Linked DWG file in AutoCAD, and upon reloading in Revit, the Import Scale will have been somehow automatically and incorrectly set to …
If you want your entire geographically separated team to have access to the same linked files, you need to upload them to Revit Server. This also goes for CAD / DWG files, which will need to be import…
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Jeremy shows how you can review a DWG file to determine if the source entities were Text or Labels in Revit. This principle extends further, as he describes: The differing TypedValue 11 is consistentl…
This is a great post / video from pedroeron on RFO. It essentially shows you how to hide the edges of imported geometry (such as from Sketchup), so that when it imports into Revit, you only see the sh…
Sometimes you will have some junk imported DWG definitions residing in your project. These may be present due to the long history of the project, perhaps using Transfer Project Standards – View Templa…