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Insulation in Revit can be incredibly difficult to work with. It can be difficult to select the insulation individually, but you can select them by using a specific schedule (ie. Pipe Insulation Sched…
As part of meeting his RTCNA requests, Harry posted this idea for saving all groups to file: API can be used to generate a text file listing all model groups. this text file can be used as input to a …
A great way to test if you know What Revit Wants is to try and run a complicated high rise or health facility using model groups. The principle and general functionality of groups is fine, but they ca…
Let’s say you want to quickly schedule a particular Model Group’s instances in your project, and also be able to quickly “find” them in the project: Make a new Generic Model that can have everything “…
I have been searching for a quick and easy way to compare exclusions between Group instances – and nothing really exists at this point. So, I have developed a method to do this by using Revit and some…
Let’s say you have inherited a multi-storey project that has been set up with Model Groups for Typical Levels – not necessarily a bad thing (see this post). There are a couple of things that do scare …
Have you noticed this little gem? If you use the Edit command from the Project Browser for a Detail or Model Group, like this: … then you can use the Load as Group into Open Projects to update the gro…
Interesting message when linking a Group to a new RVT file… basically, if you have a Model Group in your project that has Excluded Elements (either deliberately or due to some unavoidable issue) and y…
Aaron Maller is one of the top Revit guys in the world. In a recent blog post, he provides some handouts for download – this is basically stuff about Links and Groups for the Advanced user – very inte…
Using groups for quick annotation – video example: via twiceroadsfool atGroupDemo1.wmv – YouTube…