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Follow these steps: That should get you to the Room Separation line entry in Visibility / Graphics. Then, you can: press Spacebar to toggle visibility on / off press Right Arrow, then Spacebar to open…
I have been using Revit for over 5 years now, and I don’t think I have ever used the Show Hidden Lines tool. Am I the only one? Basically, its a two pick tool, first pick for the ‘front’ element, seco…
Pre-2013 sketch based stairs have the Stair Path bound to the actual Stair element. In Revit 2013 when using Component Stairs, the Stair Path becomes a separate element. Think of it as a special Tag f…
Awesome post to Wikihelp by Ping Jiang, Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Autodesk. The short version: basically when the old stairs upgrade to Revit 2013 and mix with new stairs in the project, we…
In Revit 2012, right-click Override Category in View put you into the VG dialog, and you had to scroll to find what you were after – annoying! Revit 2013 is heaps better – it simply provides a dialog …
This is kinda weird. I opened this 2012 family in 2013 – and now when I turn things on and off in the Family Editor, they completely disappear (they don’t just gray out as you would expect). It is a s…
What is wrong with this video? Antiquated UI toolkit strikes again? Open embedded content: www.youtube.com…
In Revit, you can’t use the linework tool on the physical edge of a Toposurface. Worse still, the edge has no distinct category of its own. The only viable workaround that lets you consistently hide t…
There are at least two ways to work around the fact that a Plan Region will not affect the viewing of Topography elements. From the AUGI forums (2007):Alex PageWhat about having a ‘cut-plane’ of the v…
I have used a similar technique for residential housing – where you can have repetitive plans with only small differences. It can even be adapted to work in a demolition scenario. The visibility in ea…