The Revit Mindset and What Revit Wants
What is the Revit Mindset? Great question! I have been telling everyone I taught Revit to for years that it’s the ability to clear your mind of any preconceived “knowledge” or “understanding” of Revit…
what revit wants
Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.
Life science building in litigation – Why?
“It boils down to this – bad habits easily translate between CAD and BIM packages – and the tools and models are only as good as the information you put into it. IT’s like saying the car made me drive…
Revitdialog quote…
“It is the biggest project the firm has ever undertaken. There was very little planning with respect to file configuration; as a result, the project has now endured two model splits. We don’t want to …
What drives a successful BIM project…?
There was time spent changing a design that didn’t need to happen, all because of an unwillingness to accept that something might be different than what we know. And in BIM, everything is. You have to…
Do you know what Revit likes? (6 Phases of a Revit User)
Revit Fox recently re-posted about the 6 Phases of Revit. Ultimate credit for this apparently goes to Chris Zoog. It is “perhaps the most re-posted Revit resource in history!” http://seilercadsupport.…
Revit in Motion: Select all Instances
Interesting post from Revit in Motion: Select all Instances. Basically, I didn’t know that ‘Select All Instances – Entire Project’ will actually look inside Design Options! In this case, What Revit Wa…
Re-ordering and re-grouping parameters for userfriendliness
So you have added a bunch of Shared Parameters to your Project, but you never bother to set the ‘Group Parameter under:’ property correctly…you are naughty, aren’t you? It can make using Revit a lot e…
What Revit Wants is on Wikipedia
Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Revit_Wants (blog)…
Top Posts #1 – What Revit Wants
Here are some of my most popular posts from the last 2 years: How to use the new Keyboard Shortcuts Dialog and Tips Make a Good…Impression Workflow (simple guide from Revit) Unpredictable Properties B…
Design Options and Elevation Crop – Head Scratcher
Here is the problem: An elevation crop region is not visible. It cannot be turned on using any of Visibility/Graphics settings. The problem is not anything to do with the ‘Show Crop Region’ switch. Th…