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Basically, the issue goes something like this:Revit 2012 can’t find a linked dwg anymore. When I try to reload it, Revit says the file doesn’t exist. There is an other linked dwg in the same folder, w…
In AutoCAD, you can type %%c and it will get translated into a diameter symbol. Other control codes may be found here. However, I have found that this method does not import into Revit correctly. Inst…
This happened to me recently on a very big workshared project. Turning off the Crop of the view made the links reappear, but when I zoomed in, they disappeared again! The solution? Turn off the Far Cl…
Sometimes you may have trouble using a DWG that contains ‘points’ to create a Revit topography. There are two main ways around this. METHOD 1 Here is a LISP routine to export points in a DWG to CSV fi…
You have two views, and you want a DWG Import or Link to be displayed the same in both views. What is the quickest way to accomplish this? Copy DWG from first view. Paste Aligned into second view. On …
A big tip for new players: Never import a DWG file. And never, ever explode an Imported DWG file. Nothing good will come of it. Trust me. Instead, do this (in order of preference): Use Revit natively,…
Erik Egbertson over at Inside the Factory made a comment about modeling a Stealth Aircraft in a recent post, and it got me thinking. How would you go about it? Now, I’m sure it would be possible to do…