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Free Standards Guide – Energy Efficiency This guide provides information on Standards and Certification schemes relating to energy efficiency and climate change and covers topics such as solar panel s…
After selecting an Import instance, you can choose to Full Explode or Partial Explode. Most users realise that exploding is a bad idea, and it can get very messy. In fact, a number of experienced Revi…
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 …
EDIT In Revit 2012 and newer, the quickest way to identify paint is to use the Remove Paint tool. This does not load the Material selection panel, and will thus be faster. Also, switch 3D view to wire…
Let’s say you have hundreds of views in a Project, with some customised view sorting. How do you delete a view that you have open, without having to find it in the Project Browser? Simply right-click …
Here is a brief how-to on creating a large, high resolution rendered Revit walkthrough (or sun study) and then subsequently compressing and uploading it to Youtube. Setup your walkthrough view. In Rev…
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…