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Free graphical PDF table of special symbols and characters

I received a comment on my previous post to a Revit Forum page that links to a nice PDF you can download and stick on your wall – it shows the Unicode values for most of the special characters that yo…

2011-11-27 · Luke Johnson
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Fix Import and Link DWG of Diameter Symbol Control Code

In AutoCAD, you can type %%c and it will get translated into a diameter symbol. Other control codes may be found here. However, I have found that this method does not import into Revit correctly. Inst…

2011-11-23 · Luke Johnson
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How to add symbols to Schedules and Text in Revit

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…

2010-04-01 · Luke Johnson
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Add a URL link to your Titleblock – easy way to advertise!

No doubt you issue many PDF files to consultants, Clients, Builders and the like. Why not add a URL link to your titleblock, so that anyone receiving your PDF files can jump directly to your webpage? …

2010-03-08 · Luke Johnson