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James Hardie Revit 2013 content downloads

Direct links:James Hardie Revit curtain wall files 2013.zipJames Hardie Revit basic wall files 2013.zipJH_Product_Profiles_Archive.zip (CAD DWGs) (you *may* have to use Firefox with Downthemall to pro…

2013-02-18 · Luke Johnson
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Swapping your Families for different ones

A while back, RevitCat got me thinking about the rules associate with family swapping in Revit. Here are a couple: You can change the Category of a family (using Edit Family, Load into Project) with a…

2013-02-11 · Luke Johnson
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Free Family Manager Basic Add-in

This free add-in may be downloaded from the Autodesk Exchange | Apps website. viaRevit Add-Ons: Free Family Manager Basic Add-in…

2013-02-04 · Luke Johnson
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Rattling the Act-gsac-use nest over linked libraries

It wouldn’t be a BIM blog post without inventing some obscure, never-to-be-used again abbreviation would it? In this case, actGSACuse stands for ‘active Graphisoft ArchiCAD users‘. I tweeted this imag…

2012-12-09 · Luke Johnson
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Plan ahead when making a family

Sometimes, putting a bit of thought and planning into your family design well lead to far better results than simply ‘diving in there’. The following post shows a list of such requirements. Essentiall…

2012-11-19 · Luke Johnson
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Free utility that will sort all of your families by Category!

From time to time, I export all of the families in a project and add it to our Library as a ‘snapshot’ of where our families were at during that project. However, Revit still does not export the famil…

2012-11-13 · Luke Johnson
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Railing families – November 2012

I recently downloaded the Revit (railing) files from Moddex Systems. If you want to access them, go to the following page and follow the links to register: Moddex – CAD Support(you can also go direct …

2012-11-04 · Luke Johnson
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18000 free families from familit – Revit Family Library

While familit do have a browser / content manager add-in, this is a paid product (if you are looking for free family browser, check out tools4revit). However, the family content itself at familit is f…

2012-10-08 · Luke Johnson