Mimic Old Properties Dialog
Great tip from Troy Gates over at AUGI: Re: Revit 2011 Properties Box VS. Project Browser You could mimic the previous properties box by floating it over your working area and toggling it on and off w…
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SuperTip #3 – Keyboard Shortcuts
The best way to become faster at using Revit is to trigger more commands with the keyboard. This is a trick that anyone using AutoCAD learned years ago. You can just hit a few keys much faster than yo…
Disappearing 'Finish Sketch' or 'Finish Mass' Ribbon Elements
Occasionally you may find that the Finish Sketch and Cancel Sketch buttons disappear from the Ribbon. The easiest way to get out of this situation is to map a Keyboard Shortcut for these commands. You…
Using Extended Characters in a Keyboard Shortcut (Repost)
In the Revit 2010 Subscription advantage Pack there is a issue with using extended characters in a keyboard shortcut in the new UI.(Reposted from the Autodesk RSS Feed I subscribe to) To get access to…
To quickly see the Keyboard Shortcut associated with a command…
hover over the item on the Ribbon, and the tooltip will show you the assigned Keyboard Shortcut in brackets.…
How to use the new Keyboard Shortcuts Dialog and Tips
UPDATE: Check out my Supertip post at https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/2010/04/supertip-3-keyboard-shortcuts.html The Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 has generally been re…
Tab select for instance parameters!
So you are using the ‘grips’ to try and stretch instance parameters on a family, but it is a pain – sometimes they snap, sometimes they don’t, you can’t dial in a certain value to ‘move’ the instance …