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A very quick way to export a very clean RVT file

You may want to do a very aggressive cleanup of your Revit file, getting rid of all Views while retaining all 3D elements as proper Revit elements. You can use the ‘Save to New File’ function to do th…

2012-10-19 · Luke Johnson
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The Best of AutoCAD 2010: Meshes (AutoCAD Exchange)

Interesting video on AutoCAD Exchange over at this link. The main point of the video is – if you want to work with Solids in AutoCAD effectively, you should correctly set the DELOBJ system variable. W…

2010-07-20 · Luke Johnson
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Copy from Annotation to Model Families

Revit doesn’t want you to copy lines between Annotation and Model Families (see below) However, it can be done. This is the workflow to copy lines from Annotation to Model families: Copy lines from th…

2010-03-04 · Luke Johnson
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Modeling a Stealth Aircraft in Revit

Erik Egbertson over at Inside the Factory made a comment about modeling a Stealth Aircraft in a recent post, and it got me thinking. How would you go about it? Now, I’m sure it would be possible to do…

2010-03-02 · Luke Johnson