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Can you change built-in parameters from Type to Instance based, and vice versa? This post shows you can. The essence of the workflow is to start a family with the desired template, add a value to the …
Screencast by Aaron Maller: Viewing this content requires Silverlight. You can download Silverlight from http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight. Open embedded content: external media via Twiceroadsfo…
Jeremy Tammik recently posted a “complete illustrated Key Family Concepts slide deck” as part of a detailed post about the basics of Family Creation. Read more:http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog…
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…
EDIT Current category guide post: https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/2013/09/new-crowdsourced-and-open-source.html In Revit, some families have Cut Dominance, some are Cuttable, and some respect various Vie…
Most of us use the old Reference Line with angular dimension method to control rotation in our vanilla Revit families. However, Marcello Sgambelluri has posted three alternative methods to control rot…
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…
And so did @ncollective: The only thing is that I wish #Revit would call “Family” something else. I freak out whenever I hear “let’s make a new Family”. @Autodesk 12:04 PM – 28 Jan 12 via Seesmic · Em…
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…
There is huge post on content (family) creation over at this link. I have provided a few useful excerpts below: A handy list of relevant Agencies / Organizations: AIA – American Institute of Architect…