New Revit Families Guide for 2011
Wouldn’t it be nice if we got an update version of the Revit Families Guide?Well, sadly, we don’t have it yet. You can still access the 2010 version here and the 2009 version here. I don’t know about …
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Locking Parameters in the Family Editor
A new feature in Revit 2011 allows you to ‘lock’ or ‘unlock’ parameterised dimensions in the Family Editor. In practice, this allows you to instantly flex a family without having to open the Type Prop…
Copy from Annotation to Model Families
Revit doesn’t want you to copy lines between Annotation and Model Families (see below) However, it can be done. This is the workflow to copy lines from Annotation to Model families: Copy lines from th…
Modeling a Stealth Aircraft in Revit
Erik Egbertson over at Inside the Factory made a comment about modeling a Stealth Aircraft in a recent post, and it got me thinking. How would you go about it? Now, I’m sure it would be possible to do…
Revit Family Style Guide – Reposted from Revit OpEd
Steve Stafford has posted about a highly detailed guide related to family creation. “The purpose of the Revit Model Style Guide is to define Autodesk guidelines and standards for model creation in Rev…
Copy between Project and Family
Sometimes you really want to copy some model lines from a project RVT to a family RFA, but Revit says NO! This is the workaround: In the Project, create detail lines that describe the elements you wan…