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As software and standards mature and even become archaic, they inevitably attract baggage along the way. Years of technical debt amassed by well-intentioned developers and product managers will be pai…
BIM One have released a new automatic color filter addin for Revit. It is very simple to use, and its free: Install the addin using the install tool (refer here for steps on using the addin manager) O…
This tip comes from Troy. He has provided a simple Dynamo definition to set the element Mark to Element ID. It is very fast, and I have tested it on a fairly large data set. As usual though, ‘use at y…
For some projects, Revit Warnings become a metric in model audit processes (this may be regardless of how much impact those warnings may have in real terms). For example, perhaps your model has become…
If you paste a heap of elements from one Revit model to another, you may come across this error:“There are identical instances in the same place. This will result in double counting in schedules.” If …
Konrad Sobon has put together a Dynamo definition that parses a Warning HTML from Revit, picks out those associated with a particular warning type, and then lists the associate element IDs so they can…