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Parts allow some extremely powerful workflows in Revit. Did you know that you can take an in-place family, and when you Divide Parts, Revit will make an individual Part for each geometric element? For…
Ever had that annoying problem of your entire dwg showing up in Section Views, regardless of where it is cut? If so, check out this tip from Chad at Revit KB:…if you link the DWG into an In-Place Mass…
I’ve added this checking node to the Bakery package. Much of the credit goes to Andreas Dieckmann for the Family.IsInPlace node in the Clockwork package: You may also be interested in copying a non-sc…
There are two additional recommendations I would make to the Autodesk solution below: use a Generic Model inplace family, and the import can be placed on an additional Subcategory to allow for easier …
Part of knowing What Revit Wants, is also knowing what it Does Not want. Sometimes, you can push the hack (or workaround) that step or two too far… and the result is unpredictable, buggy and kinda use…
Here is an easy way: Install Case Add-in Manager Using the Add-in Manager, install Batch Export Family RFA’s tool (I am running v2012.11.13.0) Open a Revit project and run the tool After families have…
There is plenty of information available about Component Stairs in Revit 2013. I thought I would collect some of the better resources and post them here. This first link is a little bit outside-the-sq…
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…
Here is a little gift to all my readers. The link below allows you to download a 2012 version RVT project that contains In-place and Component versions of families that are of the Category ‘Stairs’ an…
Here is what we want – you select an in-place family and click ‘Convert to Component Family‘ on the Ribbon. Through API Wizardry, the following happens without any further user interaction: The family…