Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.
Did you ever notice this little button, available in the Manage Images dialog in Revit 2015? Although it is pretty self-evident, here you can replace an image by reloading from a different one. You ca…
Once you have imported an image into Revit and then warped it (by unticking the Lock Proportions box and resizing it), then it is not immediately evident how you can reset it to 1:1 (its default X:Y s…
In Revit 2013, the Properties Palette does not expose the Graphic Display Options button in the Family Environment: However, you can still get to the Graphic Display Options by using the View Control …
You have a scanned image of a Contour Plan, and you want to convert that raster image into useful vector data. How do you go about it? In the past, I would have used vanilla AutoCAD to trace the conto…
Let’s say you have imported an image of an existing floor plan into a Revit view, but it doesn’t quite look right. When you scale the image, it appears to be warped in either the ‘X’ or ‘Y’ direction.…
So, you try and print a view with an image in it, and Revit 2010 just decides to crash…and you can’t figure it out! Well, Revit wants you to choose ‘Raster’ instead of ‘Vector’ under the ‘Print’ dialo…
So, someone has inserted images into your file, and you can’t save them out! Sure, you can go to File – Raster Images, but that doesn’t really help. Try this: The answer is simply to ‘export’ the view…