Free Revit family browser and tutorial
Nice post by Ben Malone over at BIMopedia. He shows you how to install, activate, and use the free Tools4Revit family browser. I like the fact that I can add my single local network-located Families f…
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A curtain family that (kinda) opens and closes …
This is an example of an family with an array that kinda mimics a curtain that opens and closes. http://revitlog.nl/images/stories/families/82_meubels/82_gordijn.rfa However – it is also a good exampl…
Various methods to upgrade your office RFT files to 2013
In the past, a workflow was available in which you could rename older RFT files to RFA, then upgrade them to the most recent version of Revit (perhaps using a batch upgrade tool), then rename back to …
More Free Revit Applications – Family Loader and Materials deleter
It must be hard to make money as a Revit application developer – because there are some cool free add-ins getting around. From revit-app.com, check out these three free utilities: Easy Family LoaderIt…
Polantis – another BIM Content Portal
In the top right corner of the window, you can choose In–rfa to show only the Revit content. Polantis – 3D Catalog technology – Free CAD objects for architects Heads-up from Village BIM…
Revit API Challenge: convert In-place Families to Component Families automatically
Here is what we want – you select an in-place family and click ‘Convert to Component Family‘ on the Ribbon. Through API Wizardry, the following happens without any further user interaction: The family…
Crowd Sourcing a list of BIM Content for Revit
James Van posted a list of Revit content the other day that has been re-blogged and re-Tweeted many many times in the past week! In the interests of creating an Open and Editable list of Links to Revi…
Divider tools for an Array anytime
While editing a Group, you can’t create an Array. There are two workarounds: Make the array ‘outside the group’ and then Add it to the Group. This requires you to Finish Group, make Array, Edit Group,…
How to assign a parameter to a painted surface in a family
Here is how you can assign a material parameter to a painted surface in a family: Go to Family Types dialog box Add – Material Parameter Paint Choose the material that you made – it will have the suff…
Show only if Instance is cut – categories and workaround
Have you struggled with the Show only if Instance is cut option in the family element visibility settings. Was it grayed out? The following highlighted categories (wall hosted) have ‘Show only if Inst…