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When setting up View Filters in Revit, you can only select Filter parameters that are ‘common‘ among the Categories that you have ticked… If I haven’t lost you yet, here is a quick way to build a View…
COINS Auto Section Box (download) QuickViewAccess2013 (2013 download) (2012 download) ZoomToAwesome (download) Palladio X BIM – WindowsLayout (download) Ok, its not a view addin, but – set a keyboard …
A great post over at Revitdialog has unlocked this mystery for us. Just a little addition to that post – I think it is important to tile your windows first, then do the ordering process. In other word…
A well known limitation of current Revit versions is that you cannot easily transfer a Legend View between projects. However, you can do the following with Legend Views: Save to Project as Image (just…
To Create Similar from a Legend View, first select the element, then activate the target view, then invoke Create Similar. via Revit Warning 🙂 You may also be interested in:Create Similar tool persist…
Want to quickly tile all your open views and then instantly center all the visible elements in every view? Tile and Center Open Views – WikiHelp…
Let’s say you want to take a door from one Level of the building, then use the Create Similar tool to make an instance of this door on a different Level. This is quite easy. Just open a view from each…
We were given the ‘Slanted Column’ ability when some of the Structural tools were recently incorporated into Revit Architecture. If you have been pulling your hair out trying to place one of these sla…