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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…
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…
Nice ‘checklist’ style post over at RevitKing. Most things just come back to sensible modelling:Revit.King’s BIM coordinator/ Revit Blog: Optimal performance for Revit!!! One of the tips:Create a fami…
If you want to find out the actual file size of families that are living in your project, follow these steps: In Revit 2012, export all families to RFA files (File – Save As – Library – Family – ). In…
I received the ‘Unacceptable list separator’ error while trying to: load a family from file into a project, and load types into the family from a Type Catalog. I assumed the problem was to do with Typ…
Do you get annoyed by the warning: Can’t create duplicates in Edit Group mode. If you are editing a group, and want to make a Duplicate of something, simply scroll to the item in theProject Browser – …
Do you have some awesome in-place families that you would like to convert to normal Component families, so that you can load them into other projects? Here’s how: Open the Project containing the In-Pl…
Steve Stafford is a pillar of the Revit community. There are some great free downloads at his site, AEC Advantage. Check out the downloads page:http://www.aecadvantage.com/links2 There is a great docu…
Steve’s post about ‘Weak and Strong’ is very informative. However, if you want to ‘stretch’ a family with instance parameters AND a weak ref plane, simply ‘Tab’ until you get Revit to say ‘Shape handl…
You want to know which families are cuttable and which are not. Revit 2011 help gives the answer: Cuttable families (link):CaseworkCeilingsColumnsCurtain Wall PanelsDoorsFloorsGeneric ModelsRoofsSiteS…