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Update… v2 has been published in Bakery package as:Create Floors From Rooms v2.dyf All kinds of weirdness with Package Manager at the moment, so I am sharing my entire ‘packages’ folder including Bake…
Paolo has posted an interesting bit of code that basically allows you to pick a floor element, and it will add points to a topography so that the topo follows the “points” on the Floor. A very interes…
You can’t simply use a Floor Tag to tag the thickness of a Floor in Revit… However, you can:Convert the Floor to a Part, and use a Parts Tag Parts tags can natively report thickness of the Part. EDIT …
I have posted about this before (with downloads), but if you want to put a Slope Arrow on a Ramp, make one on an adjacent floor then drag it to the ramp. For a simple step-by-step of this process, che…
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In the image below, I show the basic process used to drive a Floor Area parameter into a manually added shared parameter. Obviously, this scenario is not ideal – the data link isn’t dynamic, so we hav…
As you may have realised, you cannot add the Area parameter to a Floor Tag annotation. Here is a workaround: Make a Floor Schedule with Area and Comments fields added. Filter By – Comments = the Comme…
Revit does not want you to place a slab edge on part of a slab that is sloping (because it has been shape-edited). However, you can ‘trick’ Revit into letting this happen by: Setting the edge you want…