Visibility Override for Specific Tag Type
Did you know you can override the lineweights and colors of a Generic Annotation or Tag and its Leaders in Revit? You can use Visibility / Graphics annotation tab like this: But what if you have two T…
Save Selection
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Using Save and Load Selection in the Revit Family Environment
In the Revit 2015 Project Environment, you can access the tools to Manage Selections from the Manage Ribbon: However, this Ribbon Panel is not available on the default Manage Ribbon in the Family Envi…
Auditing and Comparing Model Groups in Revit 2014
I have been searching for a quick and easy way to compare exclusions between Group instances – and nothing really exists at this point. So, I have developed a method to do this by using Revit and some…
Using a Saved Selection Set as a Filter to make Demolished items transparent
It can be difficult to stop Demolished items from occluding New items in Revit. There is no easy way to say “make everything Demolished wireframe, but leave other elements as-is” in a Hidden Line view…
Free Save and Restore Selection Add-in for Revit
In response to my post yesterday about using Selection IDs to save selections, Tom Pesman of tnux.net has created a free Revit add-in to automate the process. At this stage, it only allows the you to …
Quick select groups of objects in Revit (save multiple selection sets)
I was going to title this “Even Better Save Selection Workaround for Revit Architecture users”, but that wouldn’t really be accurate. I am posting about a work method that will allow you to select a g…
Save Selection Workaround for Revit Architecture users
A while back, I asked you guys to request that the ‘Save Selection’ feature be added to Revit Architecture. Even though we all apparently made quite a bit of noise with all of our requests, the Factor…
RAC Users – lets get the Save Selection feature now!
In Revit Structure, you can select a number of elements and then ‘save’ that selection as a Selection Set. That selection set automatically becomes a Filter that can be used in Visibility / Graphics. …