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I once built an auto-sizing Fire Pipe Fitting using a Formulaic method (where the various fitting sizes were driven by the Revit intersection variable), so I was interested to read about a similar str…
Have you ever exploded a SAT or DWG in the Family Environment, and then gone looking for the Visibility Settings ribbon button for one of the resulting freeform elements? Its not there: But, as you ca…
Revit doesn’t like to deal with an array that has 1 instanced element or component (although there is one exception). The array will break. So, the way to handle it is to have a separate single instan…
In the Revit 2015 Project Environment, you can access the tools to Manage Selections from the Manage Ribbon: However, this Ribbon Panel is not available on the default Manage Ribbon in the Family Envi…
Typically when editing Revit families, if you want to deal with arrays and stop them breaking when the count is 1, you set up some IF() formulas in Revit. However, a recent comment by David over on Re…
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…
There are at least two distinct ways to move an item via dimension edit in the Family Editor, but they can have very different results. See video:Open embedded content: www.youtube.com My video is dir…
In Revit 2013, the Properties Palette does not expose the Graphic Display Options button in the Family Environment: However, you can still get to the Graphic Display Options by using the View Control …
This is kinda weird. I opened this 2012 family in 2013 – and now when I turn things on and off in the Family Editor, they completely disappear (they don’t just gray out as you would expect). It is a s…
Isn’t it strange that Scope Box is a property of datums (like Reference Planes and Levels), AND its also a Property of Views (Floor Plans, Elevations, Sections etc) in the FAMILY environment, yet ther…