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Revit Prank 2 – custom dimension rounding

Beware of this one – someone setting the Custom dimension rounding to something strange like ‘3’: It can make a tidy Dimension Plan look terrible! More at: What Revit Wants: Revit Pranks…

2012-10-25 · Luke Johnson
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Rounding values to a custom increment using a Formula

Nice tip from Revit Rants on how to round values within a family – and it allows much greater flexibility as to the rounding increment. In the example below, Chris uses ROUNDUP to round to a 5mm degre…

2012-09-03 · Luke Johnson
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SOLVED: Area Calculation Totals – Rounding and Precision

Thanks to one of our readers, we have a solution for the schedule precision problem described here. The comment below the lines gives the formula to convert an Area into a rounded number in a schedule…

2012-08-28 · Luke Johnson
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Revit 2012 and Rounding Formulas

In Revit, you can sometimes get some weird results from a schedule that directly uses Totals for Areas. For example, the individual Areas of a number of elements may add up to a certain number, but th…

2011-07-19 · Luke Johnson