Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.
I don’t know how many times I have been reading Revit OpEd and Steve just reveals another one of those little things that can make your Revit life so much easier – like pinning an object before rehost…
Steve Stafford and Aaron Maller are both awesome Revit guys. Both of them have a Screencast library of videos that you can freely view. Here are the links: RevitOpEd’s library aaronmaller’s library Yo…
I just became aware of an issue that I wanted to pass on to you all right away. Workset1 is special. It should never be renamed, because it can lead to fairly serious problems down the track, includin…
While discussing an interesting baluster-with-lighting family, Steve reminds us that “Revit hates switching between shared and not shared status.” You have to follow a strict process of deleting and /…
Great veteran’s tip from Steve. He explains how to reset shared coordinates to an out-of-the-box setting by Acquiring Coordinates from a default Revit template: Once two files are sharing coordinates …
When using tools like Mirror or Offset, hold ‘Ctrl’ after triggering the command – this toggles the tick box in the Options bar. Very handy! From Revit OpEd. If you want to make sheets quickly, just u…