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Sometimes you may want to use a Door or Window family that is not hosted by a particular wall. That way, if the host wall is deleted, the unhosted component will still persist. Here’s how: New – Famil…
Embedded Schedules allow you to display both Room or Space data AND Data on Components that are living in those Rooms or Spaces. Quite powerful! They are technically only allowed in Revit MEP, not in …
There is a way to link Excel data into Revit, and retain the ability to ‘update’ that data when it changes. Essentially, it involves using AutoCAD as a middle-man to get the job done. In simple terms:…
As you may have realised, you cannot add the Area parameter to a Floor Tag annotation. Here is a workaround: Make a Floor Schedule with Area and Comments fields added. Filter By – Comments = the Comme…
Martijn de Riet has pointed out something very useful when you are trying to use a Calculated Value to pull together a bunch of similar-but-different parameters. If you come across an error, don’t for…
Here’s how: Make sure each link has a ‘unique’ family with a ‘unique’ Mark parameter. For example, put a Sprinkler family with a Mark of 1234567 into each RVT link. In the ‘Site’ RVT, create a Sprinkl…
I had a bit of a problem using Revit OOTB (out of the box) parameters to group sheets by Revision, so I did it super-quickly using a custom parameter. Here are the steps: Add a new custom parameter to…
Did you know that you can select multiple objects with similar properties using a Schedule? You may say “well, I can just use ‘Select All Instances’…” However, what if you want to select objects that …
You would likely agree that the Text tool in Revit still leaves a lot to be desired, not least of which would be some decent bullets and numbering features. No doubt most of you are using Key Schedule…
This is one of the most exciting blog posts I have read for some time:http://revit.blogspot.com/2010/03/accessing-project-parameters-in.html from Jay Polding at revit in plain english. Essentially, in…