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How to Indent a Revit Repeater on a Divided Surface
In a recent post by Andy Milburn over on Shades of Grey, he mentioned that it is not possible to indent the edges of a divided surface. Well, that is absolutely true - Divided surfaces are unlike...
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How to Schedule Panel Locations on a Flat Rectangular Surface in Revit
This post demonstrates how it is possible to schedule repeater component cell numbers on an orthogonal pattern within the Revit Conceptual Massing or Adaptive Component environment:To set this up,...
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Inuagural European Revit Technology Conference September 2013
Having recently returned from the inuagural European Revit Technology Conference I thought I'd give a quick report on how it all went. Having been to all the RTC events this year, and all but one RTC...
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Circular repeater geometry in Revit
In previous posts I have described how easy it is in Revit to use a circle as a rig to host regular geometric shapes like squares and hexagons. It occurred to me the other day that circles would also...
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Geometric Patterns from Parametric Revit Stars
In my previous post I showed how to make a parametric star in Revit - one that has a variable number of points. Here are some examples of how that might be used in a parametric pattern. I have shown...
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Rival Revit Environments - Traditional vs CME
For the first decade of its life, Revit really only had one method of creating 3 dimensional forms - in the Family Editor (aside from those generated by system families). When Revit 2010 was released...
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Winder Stairs in Revit 2013
Revit Stair By Component Revit 2013 introduced the concept of stairs by component. Two of the new stair run component types were for creating "Winder Stairs".  Winder Stairs When I first tested these...
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Spiral and Curved Revit Stairs
 Creating Curved and Spiral StairsNew Stair Tools were introduced in Revit v2013 – these included two methods to create a curved stair run by component:Full-Step Spiral This tool requires two...
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Revit Stair Landings - Part 1: Creation
Creating Component Based Stair Landings in RevitAs part of the new (in v2013) component based stairs, landings between runs are one of the component types. They are pretty straightforward to create,...
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Revit Stair Landings - Part 2: Modification
In the previous post I talked about creating stair landings in Revit. Now its time to look at modifying landings, which is very different to the old sketch method (pre-v2013).Stair landing components...
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Separating Model and Detail Lines in Revit
Have you ever wanted to select all the detail lines in a view in Revit, without selecting any model lines? Or to select all (and only) the annotation on a view?Easy, you might think - until you...
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Revit Multistorey Stairs - Method 1
Loretto Chapel, Santa FeWith the new component based stair tools in Revit v2013 (and onwards) there are now three distinct ways to create multistorey stairs. In the USA it would be spelt "Multistory",...
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Revit Multistorey Stair Railings - Story 1
Here is a curious story to tell:Â This is a description of how to manage railings on a multistorey stair that has been created using the "Multistory Top Level" stair property in Revit (Method 1 in my...
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Revit Multistorey Stairs - Method 2
Following on from the last couple of posts, here is an alternative method for creating multistorey stairs in Revit - typically where you need the runs and landings to be different to each other on each...
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Revit Multistorey Railings - Story 2
Apologies to Kevin Costner (hidden behind the railings)In the previous post, I described creating a multistorey stair using "Method 2" in Revit 2013 (or later) - ie. one that has runs or landings...
View ArticleRevit's most hidden commands
Recently I did a Revit demo of divided paths and repeaters. Afterwards someone said they had spent a day trying to figure out one simple thing I showed - they searched everywhere, including Youtube...
View ArticleRevit contour label orientation
A few times I have tried to search for information on how to control the orientation of contour labels in Revit - always without success. It seems that Revit likes to orient the text of contour labels...
View ArticleSwept Blend using Profiles in Adaptive Components
This process might seem obvious to anyone who regularly works in the Revit Conceptual Massing Environment (CME), but for those who are starting out with Adaptive Components, it might help the...
View ArticleRTC and Revit Egress/Escape Path Update
RTC Australasia 2013 At the Revit Technology Conference (RTC) in Auckland a couple of weeks ago I learned a whole lot of new tricks in Revit.  I usually think that if I learn one or two things that...
View ArticleRevit Step Pattern Repeaters
I saw a question recently about how to create a step pattern repeater, so of course I had to figure out how to achieve it. You could just use a 1/2 step or 1/3 step curtain panel pattern on a divided...
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