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Cooking in the Bakery today: From here we could export a list of Element IDs to CSV, make a Selection Set by Elements using Clockwork, or use one of the Select in Revit nodes. As you can see, to make …
Here’s how: Filter and group your Schedule so that it shows the elements you want on a particular row Select that Row and pick Highlight in Model After the elements are highlighed, you can start the “…
Did you ever notice this handy little selection toolset? Pretty cool, huh? Update: Dieter has correctly pointed out that these selection tools are part of the Bimits package:http://www.bimits.eu/bimit…
When building Revit addins, you may want to implement some specific selection filter. Here is some more good stuff via Alexander Buschmann and The Building Coder: The zip file SelFilters.zip contains …
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…
For good navigation performance when clashing large data sets, consider these tips: Set File Options – Frame Rate to 25 Make sure Guarantee Frame Rate and Fill in Detail are on Group all Clashes strai…
Sometimes the differences between using various Autodesk softwares can be very subtle. For instance, selection in Navisworks – I have already posted about the unfortunate lack of a “Revit Tab selectio…
Sometimes you just need to hear an idea and you innately know “this is going to be useful…” Quick Select command for Autodesk® Revit® to select by element type and its properties. Expand the element o…
In Revit, certain view properties are not schedulable. Additionally, you cannot change Visibility / Graphics through a schedule. However, let’s say you have a schedulable view property that allows you…
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…