Revit 2011 Secret #9 – New Options
After you fire up Revit 2011 for the first time, I recommend you have a look at the new Options dialog. The User Interface tab is new, but some of the options on it are old (moved from the General tab…
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Revit 2011 Secret #8 – Adaptive Components are Nearly Cool
The existence of the Adaptive Component feature isn’t really a secret. But it is one of the coolest things about Revit 2011. Imagine a family that lets you push and pull points in 3D space…and imagine…
Revit 2011 Secret #7 – Run Revit in a Virtual PC
You may have seen the long list of fixes already available for Revit 2011. Perhaps the first release will be stable, perhaps it won’t, but many of you might like to consider running Revit 2011 in a vi…
Revit 2011 Secret #6 – CAD (DWG) imports can be larger than 2 miles across
The 2 mile limitation has been removed in Revit 2011. The limit is now something more like 10 miles (16 km) from the drawing origin. The ability of Revit to maintain accuracy while dealing with these …
Revit 2011 Secret #5 – Isolate Elements can have a Keyboard Shortcut
One of the most annoying limitations of Keyboard Shortcuts in 2010 was that it was impossible to apply a shortcut for Temporary Hide/Isolate – Isolate Element. Thankfully, this irritating omission has…
Revit 2011 Secret #4 – Save View to Project as Image
When you right-click on a view in the Project Browser, you can now save that view to the project as an image:…
Revit 2011 Secret #3 – Tag Through Revit Links
Tags can now be placed on items inside Revit links. I’m sure that this will prove very useful for many of you.…
Revit 2011 Secret #2 – Right Click Recent Commands
As with AutoCAD, Revit 2011 now provides a Recent Commands submenu on right-click: You can also see here that the Persistent Properties can be turned on and off using the right click menu.…
Revit 2011 Secret #1 – Persistent Properties Palette
Over the next few weeks, you are going to be flooded with information about the new versions of Revit. Rather than posting extremely detailed and exhaust-ive (-ing) blog posts, I thought I would give …