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Thanks to Jeremy Tammik at The Building Coder: The recording of the Revit 2013 API webcast that we held on May 17 is now available from the ADN DevTech Webcast Recordings Archive, entering “Revit API”…
Think of this scenario – you have 5 different Revit projects all linked together in various ways. You want to ensure that there is some consistency in the way the Plan views appear (possibly because y…
Revit au Quotidien has picked up a few mildly scary issues when exporting to DWG from Revit 2013, one seems to be related to dimensions with Text Below, the other to EQ display of actual dimensions. H…
Have a look at the comparison below: So the new Categories that support Adaptive Components are related to either Profiles or Railings.…
From Gordon Price on RFO: Go to the Revit program folder (C:Program FilesAutodeskRevit Architecture 2013Program for RAC) and look for a file called AdskHardwareCertificationReport.xml. Rename this fil…
Open embedded content: www.youtube.com I made this playlist based on video links from: REVIT Structure Learning Curve: What’s New In Revit 2013 Videos by MasterGraphics…
Interesting tip from the Autodesk BIM Blog – after you upgrade Railings to 2013, the actual extended parameter values are not populated until you Duplicate the upgraded railing types…see image. This g…
As per the Revit Architecture 2013 Known Issues: Hardware acceleration is not available in the Parallels 7 environment, and Revit will revert to a DirectX 9 based software graphics mode, which will no…
Let’s say you have installed Revit 2013 but you want to use Revit 2012 as your default Revit for the time being (and I don’t blame you). Here are the steps from RevitForum (thanks Menschmal). Instruct…
importing IFC2x4. Thanks to Geometry Gym, and Jon Mirtschin in particular, an IFC importer add-on for Revit 2012 is under development that aims to support IFC2x4 with nurbs profile / perimeter exchang…