Revit Stair Path Arrows at Different Scales
My blog post on Revit Stair Path Arrows has had more hits than any other topic; and it continues to be near the top of the list each month - so it is obviously a problem issue for many people. One...
View ArticleHow to Find Linework Overrides in Revit
The Linework tool is much misused in Revit - it seems like a quick and easy way to make individual lines look the way you want. In reality, it wastes much more time than it saves - this is because it...
View ArticleWhat's New in Revit 2017.1
Autodesk recently released Revit 2017.1 - an interim release giving us new features as well as bug fixes. In the last two years we had similar interim releases: 2015 R2 & 2016 R2; and now we get...
View Article2017.1 Import 3D Shapes - Swings and Roundabouts
The new 'Import 3D Shape' feature in Revit 2017.1 seems like an improvement - but it is not necessarily all good. In previous versions we could link or import 3D SAT into Revit. In v2017.1 the import...
View ArticleSeparating Model and Detail Lines in Revit - part 2
A couple of years ago I posted a description of how to distinguish between model and detail lines in Revit. An anonymous comment rightly pointed out a method that I had missed - probably because it...
View ArticleRevit 2017.1 Import Rhino Materials
Following on from my post about the new Revit 2017.1 feature 'Import 3D Shapes', I have done some more testing on how to import Rhino files with materials (colours) into a Revit family. If you import a...
View ArticleApplying colours and Materials in Rhino for Revit Import
Following on from my previous post about importing Rhino materials in Revit 2017.1 here is a brief description on how to set up the colours/materials in Rhino: I am new to using Rhino, so my...
View ArticleSeparating Model and Detail Lines in Revit - part 3
Previously I posted descriptions of how to distinguish between model and detail lines in Revit and part 2 - using View Display Model . These various methods demonstrate how to visually distinguish...
View ArticleUnderline Revit Schedule Headings
I was recently asked if it is possible to just underline the Revit schedule column titles without having all the lines/boxes below. At first I thought it was not possible, so I figured out a crazy...
View ArticleUsing Totals in Formulas in Revit Schedules
This has been a frequently asked question on the various forums over the years: "Is it possible to use a grand total from a schedule in a formula in Revit". The first response is always No! Then...
View ArticleProject Information in Revit Schedules
Those of you who read my previous blog post on Using Totals in Schedule Formulas, may have noted from the comments at the end that there was a subtle, undocumented change to schedules in Revit 2017. I...
View ArticleGare do Oriente - Nested Revit Repeaters - part 1
In 2013 I presented a paper titled "Fractal Fun with Revit Repeaters and Adaptive Components" at three RTC events in Auckland, Vancouver and at the inaugural European Revit conference in Delft, in the...
View ArticleGare do Oriente - Nested Revit Repeaters - part 2
Following on from my previous post about modelling the roof of Santiago Calatrava's Gare do Oriente railway station roof, here is part 2: Placing roof panels on the top of the supporting column The...
View ArticleTracking Which Area Scheme a Schedule Belongs to in Revit
Typical project browser names Have you ever opened a Revit project and tried to understand the naming conventions (or lack thereof) for Area Schedules? And then tried to figure out which Area...
View ArticleGare do Oriente - Revit Nested Repeaters - part 3
In previous posts I described how to use Revit adaptive components and repeaters to start creating a model of Santiago Calatrava's roof structure of the Gare do Oriente in Lisbon: Part 1 - The rig for...
View ArticleRevit Nested Repeaters - Gare do Oriente part 4
How to use Revit adaptive components and repeaters to create a model of Santiago Calatrava's roof structure of the Gare do Oriente in Lisbon: Part 1 - The rig for one structural column Part 2 - Placing...
View ArticleNested Revit Repeaters - Gare do Oriente pt 5
How to use Revit adaptive components and repeaters to create a model of Santiago Calatrava's roof structure of the Gare do Oriente in Lisbon: Part 1 - The rig for one structural column Part 2 - Placing...
View ArticleTransferring Global Parameters Between Revit Projects
In preparation for my upcoming presentation 'Power to the People - Global Parameters' at BILT ANZ 2017 in Adelaide (2.3 at 1.30pm Friday 26 May), I have done some in-depth analysis of how Global...
View ArticleRevit Dialog Box Shortcut Keys
I was recently doing a very repetitive task on a Revit dialog box - it involved changing the order of many View Filters in the View Template dialog box (Filters tab). This list of added filters does...
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