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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…
I experienced this error after installing Navisworks Manage 2015: Basically, a right-click shell extension for ZIP files was looking for Inventor and not finding it. I logged it with Autodesk and was …
Here is the fix: If you unload the material library from the template, save it, close Revit, reopen, create a project from your template and add the Material Library there: not a problem. It’s all the…
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…
I copied some Planting / RPC from one project (in a Design Option) to another project (in the Main Model). This is what I got: Somehow the Planting instances appeared as a Type of an existing Profile …
I recently tried to open an RVT project in Revit, and Revit 2013 with web Update 2 would just hard crash (no error report or anything). What to do? I copied the RVT to C:TEMP – still no go. So perhaps…
This poem has done the email forward rounds for years, and has been incorrectly attributed to various authors. It is in the style of Dr Seuss, but was authored by Gene Ziegler. Here is the full versio…
Basically, when all the balusters are removed from a Railing definition in Revit 2013, I have observed that the ‘flip control’ moves far away from the Railing itself, leading to view clipping errors. …
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…
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…