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I once built an auto-sizing Fire Pipe Fitting using a Formulaic method (where the various fitting sizes were driven by the Revit intersection variable), so I was interested to read about a similar str…
Have you ever wondered if there are API commands for addressing or automating Type Catalog information in Revit? A recent post from Jeremy Tammik covered some of this. In it, he discusses the differen…
So, you have received a RTE or RVT file (along with related CSV lookup tables) and want to upgrade it without getting the “One or more families in this project are missing .csv files” error… For examp…
The BIM Data is a new blog by Mohammed Mahboob. In a recent post, he describes using a Pipe Fittings family template and switching it to Generic Model to enable (retain) the Lookup Table CSV support. …
via Twitter: Tip: Pipe fittings in #Revit #MEP need CSV’s to operate. Centralize your Lookup Tables on your server to help standardize! @autodeskrevit— Jeremy Schmidt (@BIMSchmidt) May 15, 2013…
I have previously described how you can Link Excel spreadsheet data into Revit (through AutoCAD). But what if you want to semi-automate the process of editing Lookup Tables using Excel? The blog http:…