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Let’s say you have a family that has shape handles for instance dimensions (Length Parameters). What if you want to use it for quick prototyping, and then switch that same family into a version that u…
Chris Price has been pushing the limits. Check it out:“What I found was Revit would crash at around 580 conditional statements in a single formula… Surely Autodesk should know someone would try and do…
Did you know Shaft Openings can have Symbolic Lines in them? pic.twitter.com/4VXBbWZUEb— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) November 1, 2013 To Copy/Monitor a Shaft Opening, C/M an intersecting Floor – copi…
Nice tip from Revit Rants on how to round values within a family – and it allows much greater flexibility as to the rounding increment. In the example below, Chris uses ROUNDUP to round to a 5mm degre…
A couple of formula tricks from the CAD Shack: Pick One and Only One Here the condition number will allow only one paramter to be true in a list. Associated with a type, you could control a ton of th…
This is an example of an family with an array that kinda mimics a curtain that opens and closes. http://revitlog.nl/images/stories/families/82_meubels/82_gordijn.rfa However – it is also a good exampl…
It is currently not possible to evaluate a text string in a conditional statement. You can have a conditional statement report a text string, but not check text and base a condition on it.via RevitCit…
Check it out at: Revit.King’s BIM coordinator/ Revit Blog: Formulas in Families: Setting Limits…
Revit Formulas for “everyday” usage Great forum post from Klaus Munkholm – also author of Revit Forum Blog.…