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I have recently developed a few Material and Object Procurement and Tracking solutions, primarily using Deep Space and Revizto together. These workflows also involved IFCs converted into Revit, so we …
Ok, Parts are pretty cool, particularly when working with Linked Files. But there is a strange behaviour in Revit that exists between the Parts Visibility setting of a View, and the Parts category Vis…
When setting up View Filters in Revit, you can only select Filter parameters that are ‘common‘ among the Categories that you have ticked… If I haven’t lost you yet, here is a quick way to build a View…
Let’s say you have some linked RVT files and you are using ‘By Linked View’ for visibility. What if you just want to hide off a single type of Filled Region from that Linked View? Is it possible? Yep,…
Great little post by Gareth Spencer, showing that you can graphically filter unconnected nodes to allow for easier Structural Model validation: Download PDF at: http://www.cadlinecommunity.co.uk/Downl…
It can be difficult to stop Demolished items from occluding New items in Revit. There is no easy way to say “make everything Demolished wireframe, but leave other elements as-is” in a Hidden Line view…
Download it at:SuperFilter | Autodesk Revit | Autodesk Exchange Apps It has a dockable interface, shows number of objects and can list ID of elements, as per the translation from this Russian site: No…
Nice idea from bim42: Each trade model contain a limited amount of worksets, each draftsman working on his own linked model, so I was able to create the same worksets in my compiled model.These workse…
You want to know if a DWG file was created in Revit. 1. Open the DWG file in AutoCAD. 2. Enter Filter on the command line. 3. Select XDATA ID from the Filter drop-down list. 4. Click Select. 5. In XDA…
A great list showing the Visibility/Graphics priority, thanks to Revit Fix. From most powerful to least powerful: Line Work Tool Override graphics in view by elements Filters View Depth -Beyond system…