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Painfully, Architectural Walls in a Host model often occlude the Cut Pattern settings for Structural Columns in a Linked Model. You may be able to see the edges of the Structural Columns, but any View…
You need to save as PNG – but not any old PNG will work. I have consistent success using Paint.NET, deleting the “background” so it is empty (checkerboard), then saving as a PNG. But here’s the main l…
Daniel Stine hosted the interestingly named RTC class:Mastering Materials: Getting What You Want from Revit In a recent Cadalyst article, he gives a few good material tips. Here are just 3 of them: 1)…
In Revit 2013, the Properties Palette does not expose the Graphic Display Options button in the Family Environment: However, you can still get to the Graphic Display Options by using the View Control …
The Revit Kid demonstrated today that PNG files exported from a Revit render have no background. In the spirit of one-up-man-ship, I recommend that you use TIF if you want to keep the background, but …
In previous versions of Revit, a common workaround to generate some ‘depth’ in elevation views was to use transparent mass planes. This created an effect like this: Here is what was actually happening…