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A federated Revit model is a model containing many Revit links, and they can be quite slow to work with. There are a few steps you can take to speed things up, and one of them is creating a set of fas…
(insert obligatory Revit 2017 blog post here…) The annual Revit release schedule can become very tiring. Also challenging is the fact that you will probably not start running real, big, live Revit 201…
Revit Wants you to transmit ‘detached copies’ of Central files for linking into other models. If you ignore this and transmit your Local copy instead, Revit always remembers where that instance of the…
Let’s say you have some linked RVT files and you are using ‘By Linked View’ for visibility. What if you just want to hide off a single type of Filled Region from that Linked View? Is it possible? Yep,…
Did you know you can override the lineweights and colors of a Generic Annotation or Tag and its Leaders in Revit? You can use Visibility / Graphics annotation tab like this: But what if you have two T…
“It turns out that viewtemplates can stop you from creating nwc files. After a little bit of testing we found out that if you do not include the following for the viewtemplate it will work: detail lev…
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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 …
… is not easy. Revit prefers that you don’t clog up your drawing with View Templates rather than trying to clean them out later. You can use various methods to transfer just one Template from project …
This is using XP 64-bit with Revit 2013 Update 3, but similar principles will apply to other OS and software versions: Install Revit 2013 SDK if you don’t have it already, from here Install RevitAddin…