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Now that is a very Revit blog title, for sure 🙂 So I had a nice old Curtain Wall Panel Door family, which had a nested ‘container’ Generic Model family… … in which I arrayed a shared, nested Door Pane…
By now, most of us are using Navisworks for some sort of aggregation, model checking or clashing. So why would anyone want to use Revit Inteference Check (on the Collaborate tab, Coordinate panel)? Ba…
To make the swappable profile, use a Generic Model Adaptive template, but don’t add any Adaptive points. Set the 2 reference planes in the template to “Defines Origin”. You can parametrize this as muc…
In the Parameter Properties dialog, click Export. Note: The Export option is not enabled if the selected parameter is already in the current shared parameter file. A message displays informing you tha…
Revit doesn’t let you tag Wall Volume by default, so Avisotskiy puts RDBLink to good use – he uses Microsoft Access to update a Shared Parameter with the wall Volume data, and then simply uses a tag t…
EDIT For some reason the original video is not working. It was also referenced on Wikihelp here, and that embedded version is broken too. I tried to contact Youtube user cwm9 but did not get a reply. …
Issue You want to update a revision/issue title block label globally in multiple sheet views without the need to edit every single individual sheet view. Solution The following steps explain how to ad…
While discussing an interesting baluster-with-lighting family, Steve reminds us that “Revit hates switching between shared and not shared status.” You have to follow a strict process of deleting and /…
Great veteran’s tip from Steve. He explains how to reset shared coordinates to an out-of-the-box setting by Acquiring Coordinates from a default Revit template: Once two files are sharing coordinates …
So you have added a bunch of Shared Parameters to your Project, but you never bother to set the ‘Group Parameter under:’ property correctly…you are naughty, aren’t you? It can make using Revit a lot e…