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When working with a large project, you may often close all or most Worksets for performance reasons. Secret #1 Did you know that objects still show in Schedules when the Workset is closed? And even if…
When working in Revit with linked files and worksets, it can be pretty exciting / maddening to figure out where an element actually is. I’m not talking about the 33 Reasons Something Might be Hidden (…
In Revit, each Link is bound to both a Type and an Instance. So you can have one Link ‘Type’ – relating to a single RVT file that is linked into the project. But it can be placed multiple times in the…
There is no immediately easy way to override the colour of an entire Revit Link. Of course, you can set up a View Template and override all of the individual subcategories, but that can get time consu…
It is pretty difficult to change the Workset of Pipe Insulation. The Properties Palette allows you to change them one at a time (but not multiple), while the method I posted about previously can chang…
With this free addin, you can view a graphical representation or summary of all the elements in your Revit model, based on various different filters. You can then also export a CSV of that data. We ca…
Insulation in Revit can be incredibly difficult to work with. It can be difficult to select the insulation individually, but you can select them by using a specific schedule (ie. Pipe Insulation Sched…
dp Stuff have updated their very cool Revit addins to work with Revit 2015, and happily I have three prizes to giveaway: Free Revit Utils 2015 and Randomizer 2015 pack Half-price Revit Utils 2015 and …
When working with multiple linked files, you can utilize the ability of Revit to close Worksets in Linked Files, and in some cases this is a good visibility shortcut. Along these lines Simon over at B…
Try changing the Worksharing Update Frequency setting: (this will only help if you are using workshared projects) Help: Controlling Worksharing Display Update Frequency…