Revit Shortcuts and the Revit Warnings Project
A couple of interesting new endeavors have appeared online recently that I wanted to share. The first is from Autodesk, and they are encouraging you to learn and use keyboard shortcuts. I have posted …
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Automatically Renumber Mark Parameter of Multiple Categories At Once with Dynamo
This tip comes from Troy. He has provided a simple Dynamo definition to set the element Mark to Element ID. It is very fast, and I have tested it on a fairly large data set. As usual though, ‘use at y…
Quickly Fix Duplicate Mark Warnings, and Make Element ID or Element GUID available in Schedules or Tags
For some projects, Revit Warnings become a metric in model audit processes (this may be regardless of how much impact those warnings may have in real terms). For example, perhaps your model has become…
Free Isolate Warnings addin for Revit by Archisoft
Could be very useful for quickly checking and fixing warnings and errors in 3D… Download version for Revit 2015 at: Isolate Warnings | Autodesk Revit | Autodesk Exchange Apps Heads-up from Revit Add-O…
Deleting a Schedule View results in deletion of View Template
Nasty little bug picked up by Jason Kunkel. Basically, you make View Template based on a Schedule View. Then, when you go to delete that original Schedule View, Revit will prompt you with a “View:View…
First steps in auditing a Revit model
A couple of concise tweets from some Revit legends: @jrostar Warnings, DWG links, Unused Groups, extraneous views, workset structure, phasing, design options, copy monitor, links, orphan tags— Steve S…
Use a Section Box to quickly find Warning Elements
You have a project with heaps of Warnings / Errors, but you are struggling to find the associated elements. Here is a quick way: The first problem is that not all of us can remember 6 random digits ea…
List the dimensions and tags that a delete event is going to remove
You are about to delete a number of model elements, but you are concerned about how many tags and dimensions are going to be affected by this deletion event. Here is a quick way to check: Select the e…
Amusing Error Report #1
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