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Jose Guia has also responded to the challenge. Here is a direct link to the program he created:RevitUsageAnalyzer.zip EDIT: Jose’s blog seems to be down, here is a link that workshttps://docs.google.c…
Rod Howarth has done a great job in responding to the challenge I presented a fortnight ago. He has created a simple yet effective program that analyzes your journal files and tells you the Top 20 com…
Here is a challenge for you API and programming wizards out there: make a tool that monitors the performance and productivity of a Revit user. What am I talking about? Mainly, I want to know how I can…
If you have lots of materials in a project, it can become a chore to actually ‘choose’ them in the Material dialog box. Here is a quicker way: Scroll down for step by step version… In the Element or T…
I recently received a comment on one of my previous posts about the program Folder Menu. I had actually been meaning to post about it – it currently seems to be the best 64-bit replacement for Folder …
A sure-fire way to become more productive when using Revit is to utilise the Project Browser effectively. It can allow you to quickly find and navigate your project, instead of laboriously searching f…
Productivity tip for loading families: Open a new Explorer window and browse to the location of your Families (or the Metric Library) Use Vista ‘Search’ to quickly find the family you want to load. Mu…
It has been a while since I made an I.T. specific post, so here is a little gem for you. Do you find that your desktop gets cluttered and difficult to navigate, with heaps of icons, shortcuts and rubb…
Sometimes you will want to produce a large set of PDFs where each drawing sheet is in its own PDF file. You also want the PDFs to be automatically named and created. There are a number of ways to acco…
Have you ever wanted to ‘re-issue’ or revise a large group of sheets such that they all receive the same, updated revision in the Revision Schedule? Lets say you have 100 sheets and these form the ‘Ap…