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Revit Tip – Modelling Bespoke Site Features – Part 1
By Dennis Collin
Revit is an excellent tool for modelling buildings, however, I also conduct many training sessions ...
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Revit 2023.1 now includes Dynamo 2.16!
By Dennis Collin
Dynamo for Revit 2.16 is automatically installed with Revit as an internal add-in. The Dynamo scrip...
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Revit - Rotating Floor or Ceiling Patterns
By Garry Stockton
Rotate tiles on a floor, ceiling or other surface to reflect your design intent.
Place the cursor o...
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Revit Tip – Accessing Recap Scan Regions in Revit
By Dennis Collin
Laser Scanning has been around for many years now and a common question is how to integrate this d...
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Revit 2023 – Managing Families – “Container Files”
By John Flanagan
Create Container Files for Families
Searching for the correct family in the family libraries can be...
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Revit MEP 2023 – Placing Views on Sheets
By John Flanagan
There are several ways to place views on sheets. An easy option is just to simply drag a desired vi...
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Revit - Using Reference Planes for Lights
By Garry Stockton
This topic came up in a recent training session because ceiling hosted lights were deleted when the...
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Revit 2023.1 Update – Edit Revisions on multiple sheets
By Dennis Collin
Revit 2023’s latest update has also brought some improvements when adding revisions to a sheet. In ...
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Revit 2023.1 Update – Floor Sub-object Modelling Improvements
By Dennis Collin
Revit has for many years had the ability to crease or fold floor objects, which is useful when work...
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Revit 2023.1 Update – Lots of Autumnal Enhancements and Improvements
By Dennis Collin
It’s that time of year for those point release updates for many Autodesk products. Yesterday a big ...
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Revit Tip - Placing just the project filename on a sheet
By Dennis Collin
I recently posted on how users can get a Revit title sheet family to report the location of the aut...
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Revit 2023 – Avoid Problems with Groups
By John Flanagan
Do not use Datum Levels Inside Groups
Datum elements include Grids, Levels, Reference Planes and Sc...
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Revit Tip – Customising Revit Section Lines – Part 1
By Dennis Collin
A common question I get from Revit users is, can I modify the appearance of section lines and symbo...
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Revit - Detaching whilst Worksharing
By Garry Stockton
Whilst worksharing is a useful tool for collaborative workflows, we have also encountered the rare ...
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Revit Path of Travel for Evacuation Plans
By Garry Stockton
Path of Travel
The Path of Travel tool which was first introduced in Revit 2020 now has several enh...
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Revit MEP Schedules (Elevation Parameters)
By Garry Stockton
Tag and Schedule Elevation Parameters for MEP Elements
A useful, but not commonly known feature, th...
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Revit - Render Settings Greyed Out?
By Garry Stockton
If you are trying to render a view, but you can't change some of the Render Settings because they g...
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Revit Tip – Disabling automatic committing of changes to parameters
By Dennis Collin
A question I was asked recently was how to stop Revit automatically committing changes to parameter...
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Revit Tip – Displaying authoring file location on ‘paper’ drawings
By Dennis Collin
I recently discussed methodologies on automatic location file locations on plotted or issued drawin...
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Revit 2023 – Railings
By John Flanagan
Introduction
You can create railings that are free-standing or attached to hosts such as floors, ra...
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Revit Tip – Help! I cannot see an element in Revit
By Dennis Collin
For new or even existing Revit users, a common question is why they cannot see a certain element in...
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Revit - Shared Views Tool
By Garry Stockton
Shared Views in Revit
Use Shared Views to collaborate on a 3D visual representation of your model ...
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Revit - Adding Sloped Roof Insulation
By Garry Stockton
Setting Variable Materials for use in sloped roof insulation.
Do you need to add insulation to your...
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Revit Tip – Aligning fill patterns to show correct coursing of masonry
By Dennis Collin
In Revit a common question that is frequently asked by customers is how to re-align the Model Hatch...
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Revit 2023 – Groups: Setting the Origin & Groups in the Project Browser
By John Flanagan
Setting the Origin
Each group has an origin indicated with a blue dot. The origin can be moved. Typ...
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Revit 2023 – Revit Architecture for Landscape Architects
By John Flanagan
Limitations of Revit for Landscaping
Within the realm of landscape architecture, the main issue wit...
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Revit - Elevation Parameters for Schedules in Revit MEP
By Garry Stockton
Tag and Schedule Elevation Parameters for MEP Elements
This underused feature that was introduced b...
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Revit Tip – Rotating text reference within Section Head element
By Dennis Collin
A common task for setting up Revit project templates is the creation and configuration of such fami...
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Revit - Avoid Greyed Out Render Settings
By Garry Stockton
If you are trying to render a view but you can't change some of the Render Settings because they ar...
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Revit 2023 – Tips to Organise Schedules
By John Flanagan
ZOOM IN AND OUT OF SCHEDULES
Hold CTRL + Mouse Wheel to zoom in and out of schedules.
ACTIVATE ST...