What Revit Wants
Way back in 2008, I was super excited about all things Revit and started What Revit Wants. I’m still super excited about Revit and BIM, and this is just a quick note to say thank you for all of your r…
what revit wants
Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.
How Good Are Your Revit People?
An interesting but sometimes blunt process that happens in firms is ‘ranking’ their Revit users by proficiency. There are various reasons to do this, and some of them make sense. In an ideal world, al…
The First Article You Should Read About Revit
A while back, Alex Gore contacted me to ask me a few questions about my experience with Revit. Its interesting to read through what I thought almost three years ago. In some ways, it is a motivational…
Selectively Tag Linked Elements in Revit
Let’s say you want to tag Duct Accessories in a linked Revit model. That’s easy, because Revit can Tag All… Linked Elements by Category. Just tick the box in the dialog below: But what if you only wan…
Getting into Revit's Head
To satisfy your inner API maths hunger (surely that’s a thing?), here is how Revit “thinks” about Length: Notice the recurring “328083…” theme? This is how it relates: Check out the comprehensive list…
Revit Groups – Powerful when used correctly, Painful when used carelessly
A great way to test if you know What Revit Wants is to try and run a complicated high rise or health facility using model groups. The principle and general functionality of groups is fine, but they ca…
The "sooner you get on board" with Revit, the better
A very interesting Case Study written by Doug Andresen (principal architect at Andresen Architecture, Inc) was posted to AUGI last week. He describes how his firm transitioned from AutoCAD to Revit. H…
Ask the Project What it Wants
A few interesting thoughts from revitdialog: The few BIM start up meetings I’ve sat in, usually involve “these are the BIM uses we are going to do”. Really? Did you ask the project what it wants. Ther…
Some things that Marcello said
Some quotes from Making Breakthroughs in Revit: An Interview with Marcello Sgambelluri (the cow and elephant guy 🙂 “I realized … that Revit is much more than a program to be used to document buildings…
The Art of Revit
An interesting post by Daniel Burrus on LinkedIn has been doing the social media rounds. Some quotes:Every profession has both a science and an art. The science can be taught, and people can be equall…