Revit Shortcuts and the Revit Warnings Project
A couple of interesting new endeavors have appeared online recently that I wanted to share. The first is from Autodesk, and they are encouraging you to learn and use keyboard shortcuts. I have posted …
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Free Isolate Warnings addin for Revit by Archisoft
Could be very useful for quickly checking and fixing warnings and errors in 3D… Download version for Revit 2015 at: Isolate Warnings | Autodesk Revit | Autodesk Exchange Apps Heads-up from Revit Add-O…
Parse Element ID for quick deletion of "identical instances in the same place" errors
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 …
Deleting a Schedule View results in deletion of View Template
Nasty little bug picked up by Jason Kunkel. Basically, you make View Template based on a Schedule View. Then, when you go to delete that original Schedule View, Revit will prompt you with a “View:View…
Funny Revit Error Messages
Go Team Leo: Helpful… Revit time travel? Ever felt this way? (via (@apertedesign) Even Revit knows that new features will be added in the future: This post used to be titled Another dimension beyond X…
Use a Section Box to quickly find Warning Elements
You have a project with heaps of Warnings / Errors, but you are struggling to find the associated elements. Here is a quick way: The first problem is that not all of us can remember 6 random digits ea…
List the dimensions and tags that a delete event is going to remove
You are about to delete a number of model elements, but you are concerned about how many tags and dimensions are going to be affected by this deletion event. Here is a quick way to check: Select the e…
Quickly review Error Report by parsing Element ID in spreadsheet
I find the Error Report – Warning – Select by ID process to be a little unwieldy in Revit (at the moment). Here is a little process that may speed things up for you when reviewing a Error Report in Re…
Find all instances of a detail object and report them to a file
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…
Amusing Error Report #1
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