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Many of us are installing lots of Addins into Revit these days. Some addins, like Scan to BIM, create their own complete ribbon panel. This functionality could be re-appropriated into a solution to th…
Quick fix for Revit 2012: Close Revit Go here, download and extract ZIP Go to Revit 2012 Program folder and rename AdWindows.dll to AdWindows.dll_OLD Copy AdWindows.dll from the extracted folder to th…
In the spirit of Use2009UI=1 and my far less popular Press & Drag = 0 (and here), I would like to state that turning off Panel Titles is a good way to save a bit of screen real estate. The other nice …
This fixed some persistent crashes on my AutoCAD install – here is the link if you haven’t installed it yet. It needs to be installed AFTER Service Pack 1. Direct links copied below: AutoCAD® 2012 Bas…
The easiest way I have found to get the buttons back is to learn the keyboard shortcuts for each command, where upon, once used the buttons themselves seem to magically reappear in the ribbon. The key…
In previous versions of Revit, you could ‘re-paint’ surfaces using the By Category material. However, this is not available in Revit 2012. Instead, you need to use the drop-down arrow associated with …
If you are running Revit French, Italian, German, Spanish, Simpl. Chinese, Korean, Russian, Polish, Braz. Portuguese versions, you may need this… This hotfix addresses issues related to incorrect icon…
This release contains 21 free features including: • Case Check• Renumber• Wall Filter• Find Rooms• FTP Login• Convert Here are some direct links to the setup files: Revit 2012 – Windows 7 and Vista Re…
If you are having problems related to the Ribbon or the dockable palettes in 2010, you should start by resetting the user interface: You would like to reset the Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2011 user…
I recently stumbled across the fix for an issue that has annoyed me for ages. The problem we had was that Revit would always crash when tearing off any ribbon panel. This issue affected two of our hig…