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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…
Awesome post to Wikihelp by Ping Jiang, Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Autodesk. The short version: basically when the old stairs upgrade to Revit 2013 and mix with new stairs in the project, we…
In Revit, you can’t use the linework tool on the physical edge of a Toposurface. Worse still, the edge has no distinct category of its own. The only viable workaround that lets you consistently hide t…
Simply: Make the necessary subcategories of Topography in Object Styles Apply them in the ‘Site Settings’ dialog (little arrow next to ‘Model Site’ on the Massing & Site panel) Video example below:…
One easy way to determine if a family Category is Cuttable is by looking in the Object Styles dialog box. If there is a gray box in the ‘Cut’ column, that Category is not cuttable. See image below (fr…
Revit wants you to understand it. It wants to be logical. Sometimes you need to give Revit a bit of a hand. You may need to take a few simple steps to make Revit more understandable. David Light has s…