Element must be in Main Model – workaround
While editing an In-place family (Sweep) inside a Design Option, I tried to unpin a sketch line using the Pin icon on the screen. I received this error:Element must be in Main Model To get around it, …
keyboard shortcuts
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Quickly select Invisible Line Style using the Keyboard
Sometimes you may have to deal with a very long list of Line Styles in Revit. Unfortunately, there is no ‘Recently Used’ list in Line Styles! The keyboard can be used to scroll in the Line Style selec…
Quick Keynote Reloading
In 5 keystrokes or less, can you reload your current Keynotes file? Yes, you can. Here’s how: Open Keyboard Shortcuts, and assign a Shortcut to Additional Settings:Keynoting Settings, such as KT. Now,…
Materials in Revit 2013 – the saga continues
Good post over at Andekan on Revit Materials in 2013 – I have reposted three things I found particularly insightful below. First of all – a slight correction. The Andekan post states that:You can’t op…
Stop smashing that Esc key in Revit
… and assign a keyboard shortcut to ‘Modify’ that is close to your keyboard hand –…
Revit 2012 Keyboard Shortcuts times 3
Revit 2012 now supports three character shortcut entries… Tip viaAutodesk Explorer: Updated Revit 2012 Keyboard Shortcut List: You may also be interested in some of my previous posts regarding keyboar…
Rotate 2012 and the keyboard
Type ‘RO’ for rotate, tap the spacebar and you are in 3-click rotate. … A shortcut for 3-point rotate was defined ‘R3’. Select an element and type R3 and you are in 3-click rotate. Tips viaInside the …
Assign a shortcut key to 'Pick Lines' in Revit
You can multi-assign a shortcut key to the ‘Pick Lines’ subcommand – see image below: I’m sure you can see the benefit in doing this?…
Multi-assign shortcut keys
Great idea!More Shortcut Key Magic…
Location for Revit 2011 KeyboardShortcuts.xml file
You want to know where the KeyboardShortcuts.xml file is stored for Revit® 2011 products after customizing keyboard shortcuts… The KeyboardShortcuts.xml file is stored in the following folder location…