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Ever had that annoying problem of your entire dwg showing up in Section Views, regardless of where it is cut? If so, check out this tip from Chad at Revit KB:…if you link the DWG into an In-Place Mass…
The View “Discipline” setting in Revit is a high level visibility control that can have some significant consequences on how a view actually looks. Amongst other things, it works as a high level switc…
My somewhat involved workaround for this in the past has been: 1 – Make a thick wall type (like 1m or more) 2 – Draw these walls very ‘tall’ (above and below building vertical extents) around your pro…
Have you ever wanted to control the text on your Sections, even forcing the text to be rotated / aligned with the Section Line itself? If so, check out the information and links below. From Oliver Lan…
This is a subtle change that you may have missed. In Revit 2011, we had to access the ‘Section Tag’ properties through the Manage tab on the Ribbon (which was a bit annoying). However, in Revit 2012 w…
For some of you, this will be old news. However, it is a very important yet not very well known procedure. How do you accurately rotate an existing section view accurately? Here are the steps: Draw a …
We were given the ‘Slanted Column’ ability when some of the Structural tools were recently incorporated into Revit Architecture. If you have been pulling your hair out trying to place one of these sla…