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When working with a large project, you may often close all or most Worksets for performance reasons. Secret #1 Did you know that objects still show in Schedules when the Workset is closed? And even if…
Curtain Walls in Revit are strictly a Family of the Walls Category. Then you have Types for each type of Curtain Wall. What if you want to select all Curtain Walls at once? You can’t multi-select type…
The first Revit point update each year typically brings some features that the dev team didn’t quite have cooked for the initial release, and this year we get something pretty special… the ability to …
Did you know you can use a Revit Room schedule to quickly tell if a Room is Not Placed or Unenclosed. Here’s the clues: Unenclosed will still show Highlight in Model in ribbon: Not Placed will not sho…
Using Schedules, you can usually use Highlight in Model to find an element (or group of elements) from a schedule row. However, this does not work if the element is hidden in the only view that it is …
In previous versions of Revit, Key Schedules were often used for generic data, general notes and the like. However, Key Schedules have limitations – one of which is that you cannot insert an image in …
You can do a logical test between a Project Parameter (in essence, a global constant for this Revit file) and an element parameter in most schedules. If we leverage this for Rooms, we can check if the…
Revit Keyboard Shortcuts don’t work too well in Schedules, because Revit thinks you are trying to input data. However, you can use the alternative key entry method – basically, it starts by pressing A…
Swap it for another parameter and then back again… This is easy on 2014 – after selecting the column or column header, you have an option in the ribbon to swap for another parameter. When you swap it …
What does it do?Gives you more granular control over the calculation of wall and opening area The results you get are divided according to an area value you can set. All the openings below that Maximu…