What is your opinion of BIM?
In a recent Twitter experiment, I posted three different opinions of BIM and have been monitoring the response through Retweets. Here are the results (as these are embedded tweets, the results will ch…
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5 More Navisworks and Revit Tips from Twitter
Un-coordinated BIM is like having all the ingredients of a delicious cake and eating each of them separately.— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) March 13, 2014 Struggling with imported DWG in Revit -> IFC …
Do you know the Best Way to Audit a Set of Model Groups?
Let’s say you have inherited a multi-storey project that has been set up with Model Groups for Typical Levels – not necessarily a bad thing (see this post). There are a couple of things that do scare …
Revit Tips from Twitter – November 2013 edition
Did you know Shaft Openings can have Symbolic Lines in them? pic.twitter.com/4VXBbWZUEb— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) November 1, 2013 To Copy/Monitor a Shaft Opening, C/M an intersecting Floor – copi…
More Twitter tips (again)
View Templates not behaving? Use Create Template from Current View on a “good view” & *overwrite* problem View Template by using same name.— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) October 10, 2013 To duplicate …
Five more Revit productivity tips from Twitter
Rotating the Camera target of a 3D View with Locked Orientation will have no effect, but moving it *will* change the eye position … #Revit— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) September 16, 2013 Trying to hi…
Seven More Tips from Twitter
#Revit productivity – Set your Room Name in Properties *before* placing the Room, then drop Tag + Room in correct location in one click.— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) August 19, 2013 Ctrl+C a Schedule…
Seven Tips that I tweeted but didn't post … until now
On a range of topics: Remove paint from all walls in project: 3D view, Wireframe, Isolate Walls, Remove Paint tool, hover mouse – *only* Painted walls highlight.— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) July 12,…
Add the RevitHelp Twitter Feed to your Revit Communications Center
Click on the little satellite dish, then InfoCenter settings: Go to RSS Feeds and click Add, then copy and paste the following string: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=RevitHelp Done! While you…
How do you handle Multi Storey typical levels in Revit?
Groups or links? Or something else? via How would you tackle a multi level high rise building with multiple identical floors? Link in a separate typical floor model? #Revit— Steve Deadman (@SteveDeadm…