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I previously posted about how to duplicate Array Group types and swap them in and out here. Interestingly, I created a detail Array Group in Revit 2013 today and noticed that it did not immediately ap…
The family that is created matches the Category of the host or original family. Evidently, it is this functionality that allows this to occur:Save an In-Place Family as an RFA for use in another proje…
Aaron Maller is one of the top Revit guys in the world. In a recent blog post, he provides some handouts for download – this is basically stuff about Links and Groups for the Advanced user – very inte…
Sometimes you have a bunch of model objects of different categories and you want to quickly change the Phase Created of all of them at once. And sometimes, I find that the persistent Properties in Rev…
Sometimes you want to save some Revit elements for later – like throwing them in the cupboard until you need them. Here are five ways to do that: Group, then Link, then Unload the Link (you can copy /…
This video demonstrates a peculiar workflow, in which Revit allows you to change the Type of an Array member without breaking the array. This example uses a Polar array based on a copy-to-2nd method. …
Using groups for quick annotation – video example: via twiceroadsfool atGroupDemo1.wmv – YouTube…
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…
When in Edit Mode for a Model group, the Area Boundary Line tool is grayed out. However, to work around this limitation, you can: Select Area Boundary lines that exist ‘in the project’ and then trigge…
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 – …