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Revit Tip – Using Dynamo to align an element to an edge with an offset
By Dennis Collin
The align command is a useful function in Revit, but sometimes elements need to be aligned to an ed...
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Revit Tip – Unable to move or copy elements freely?
By Dennis Collin
Sometimes when attempting to move elements within a Revit project, users find that elements seem to...
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Revit - Making Temporary Dimensions Larger
By Garry Stockton
Have you ever found the Temporary Dimension too small in Revit? If you have installed Revit, the st...
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Revit Tip – Need to transfer Schedules between Projects?
By Dennis Collin
A common question I get asked is, can we copy schedule views from one project to another? This is u...
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Revit Tip – Wall height constraints greyed out? Check the wall’s function!
By Dennis Collin
When drawing a wall in Revit, the wall direction constraint options can appear greyed out, and user...
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Revit 2022.1 - Ways to Use Global Parameters – Part 5
By John Flanagan
Use Global Parameters to Control Dimensions among Multiple Types
In this example, we have a curtain...
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Revit 2022.1 - Ways to Use Global Parameters – Part 1
By John Flanagan
Global Parameters
Revit 2017 introduced Global Parameters. These parameters allow you to manage mul...
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Revit 2022 - Adding Material to a Stair Tread
By James Philip
In Revit the stair creation process has been greatly simplified in the recent releases, but if you ar...
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Revit - What are the 3 coordinate origin points for?
By Garry Stockton
There are 3 different origin points in a Revit project:
Project BasePoint
Survey Point
Internal Or...
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Revit 2022.1 - Ways to Use Global Parameters – Part 4
By John Flanagan
Use Global Parameters to Control Visibility
In this example, we have two furniture families (dining...
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Revit 2022.1 - Ways to Use Global Parameters – Part 3
By John Flanagan
Use Global Parameters to Create Formulas
Global parameters allow you to create formulas for paramet...
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Revit 2022.1 - Ways to Use Global Parameters – Part 2
By John Flanagan
Use Global Parameters to control Materials
In my previous blog we used Global Parameters to control...
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Revit 2022 - Project Browser Organisation – Organising Sheets
By John Flanagan
My previous three blogs looked at different ways to organise project views in the project browser. ...
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Revit 2022 - Project Browser Organisation – Multiple Organising Parameters
By John Flanagan
For small companies a single organising parameter might be adequate, but what about larger companie...
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Revit - Project View Organisation in the Project Browser
By Garry Stockton
If you are new to Revit, did you know you can sort views and sheets in the Project Browser, using a...
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Revit 2022 - Override Graphics in View
By John Flanagan
Override Graphics in View
The image below shows four curtain walls placed between five concrete col...
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Revit 2022 - Create a Shaft Opening
By John Flanagan
The Shaft Opening tool creates a vertical opening that spans multiple levels, cutting through interv...
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Revit 2022 - Project Browser Organisation – The Organising Parameter
By John Flanagan
In my previous blog we organised the project browser’s views and sheets by view type names. Another...
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Revit 2022 - Browser Organisation – View Type Names
By John Flanagan
Does your project browser look like the image below?
When you open a project and see the views dis...
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Revit 2022 Tip - Useful Add-in to show Element ID as a parameter
By Dennis Collin
Every element that is created in Revit gets allocated a unique reference number known as an Element...
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Revit 2022 Tip - Steel Tab missing from Revit Ribbon Menu
By Dennis Collin
Recently whilst training, some of my delegates had an issue where they were unable to access the st...
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Revit - Template Checklist
By Garry Stockton
Revit Template Checklist
Whilst delivering training, I’m often asked about creating a Revit Templa...
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Revit Tip – Using Dynamo to place families at coordinates
Dynamo is a great way of automating tasks within Revit, a question I was asked recently was how could Dynamo be use...
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Revit LT 2022 - Is it the right product for you?
By Dennis Collin
For some years Autodesk has released a 'Lite' version of Revit (or Revit LT), I often get asked abo...
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Revit 2022 Tip - Creating a ramp with different slopes
By Dennis Collin
Revit’s ramp tool is a somewhat limited with regards to modelling a ramp that requires more than on...
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Revit Tip – Using Dynamo to recreate views and place them consistently on sheets
By Dennis Collin
I was recently asked a question about how Dynamo could be utilised to place create views from an is...
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Revit 2022 - Base Offset to Cover Floor Slab Edge
By John Flanagan
During a recent training course on Revit Architecture a delegate asked how I knew what base offset w...
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AutoCAD and Revit - Shop Drawings v As-Built Drawings
By Garry Stockton
Working in the AEC industry you’ve probably heard the terms ‘shop drawings’ and ‘as-built drawings’...
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Revit - Build Version - Part 2
By John Flanagan
With older Revit files (before 2018) you will not see the Revit Build date listed as illustrated ab...
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Revit Architecture 2022: Landscape in Revit
By John Flanagan
Use floors to represent site elements on simple sites. Create a floor type for each hardscape compo...