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Revit 2020 - Restore Elements to a Group Instance
By James Philip
If elements are excluded from group instance, they may be needed to be restored. The items can be man...
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Revit – Slow unwieldy project? Try the Family Size Reporter Add-in!
By Dennis Collin
A Revit project file, if not managed properly, can easily suffer from performance issues, such as s...
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Revit 2020 – Stacked Wall Alignment
By John Flanagan
Stacked Wall Alignment
When creating masonry stacked walls you need to make sure that the blockwork...
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Revit - Importing a DWG Linked file – Part 1
By Garry Stockton
Recently whilst on support, there were 2 calls which had issues with importing DWG’s into Revit. Th...
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Revit 2020 - Adding Detail to a Stair Tread
By James Philip
In the previous blog we added material to the stair tread, in this one we will add some tread detail....
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Revit 2020 - Using Snap Overrides
By James Philip
When creating, or editing objects within Revit, the snaps are selected automatically. This is becaus...
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Revit 2020 - Exclude Elements from a Group Instance
By James Philip
Using groups within Revit simplifies the control and updating of multiple objects, but it relies on a...
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Revit – Easy way to manage component libraries and projects
By Dennis Collin
Managing Revit content can be a challenge to any office, but fortunately there are several useful ad...
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Revit – Useful utility for new users to quickly find and access commands
By Dennis Collin
When learning any new software, it can be a challenge to locate commands quickly. Many users find t...
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Revit - Creating 3D Sections
By Garry Stockton
Towards the end of each training course, I do a quick ‘Tips n Tricks’ session. Below, I will show h...
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Revit - Importing a DWG Linked file – Part 2
By Garry Stockton
After inserting the DWG via CAD Link - linking doesn’t bring in layers and linetypes, it just brin...
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Revit - Duplicate Views
By Garry Stockton
Sheets are used for printing, while views are actual workspaces that can be placed onto sheets for ...
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Revit Architecture to MEP Workflow (Room Names to Space Names)
By Garry Stockton
During a recent Revit training course MEP engineers asked why Revit names Spaces differ for Archite...
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Revit 2020 - Trimming Walls to the Underside of Curved Stairs Using Voids
By James Philip
When placing a curved wall under stairs in Revit, the option to edit profile is not available as in s...
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Revit 2020 – Stacked Walls
By John Flanagan
Introduction
Creating a Stacked Wall in Revit
You can create a vertical wall assembly in Revit by s...
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Exporting Revit to Max
By Garry Stockton
Exporting Revit to 3ds Max
3ds Max is one of the best software applications to get photorealistic r...
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Revit 2020 – The Massing Tool Set – Roof by Face
By John Flanagan
Introduction
Create roofs on any non-vertical faces of a mass using the Roof by Face tool. You can ...
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Revit 2020 – Mass Floor Schedule
By John Flanagan
Introduction
This blog follows on from my previous blog on Cadline Community (Creating Mass Floors ...
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Revit 2020 - Worksharing Display Monitor
By James Philip
Use worksharing display modes to visually distinguish workshared project elements.
You can use worksh...
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Revit - Padlock Icon
By Garry Stockton
Have you ever thought about right clicking the Padlock on a Revit dimension?
Right click the padloc...
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Revit 2020 - Things to Avoid – Full Explode
By John Flanagan
Introduction
EXPLODE DWG FILE INSIDE REVIT?
Exploding a CAD file inside Revit is not a good idea. T...
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Revit 2020 - Creating Mass Floors
By John Flanagan
Introduction
You can create a mass floor at each level defined in the project. Mass floors display ...
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Revit Structure – Presenting Rebar in 3D views
By Dennis Collin
Whether you use the out of the box reinforcement tools, or say an add-in like the precast concrete ...
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Revit – Useful Room Add-in
By Dennis Collin
Whilst Revit room tools work well, there is a useful add-in that makes working with room objects and...
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Revit 2020 - Installing a Keynote file
By James Philip
To prepare your Revit project to use the built in Keynote tool, you will need to associate a keynote ...
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Revit - Understanding Sheets and Views
By Garry Stockton
Sheets are used for printing, while views are actual workspaces/views that can be placed onto sheet...
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Revit MEP 2020 - Create System Types
By James Philip
You can create a new duct or piping system type by duplicating an existing system type.
When you dupl...
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Revit – Creating new and modifying existing line style patterns
By Dennis Collin
A couple of years ago I outlined some of the issues encountered by Revit users and how that can be ...
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Revit - Importing Custom hatch fill Pattern Styles
By Dennis Collin
Revit does have a few fill styles with its out of the box template files, but inevitably for certai...
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Revit 2020 - The Massing Tool Set - Floor by Face
By John Flanagan
In this blog we will look at ways to use the massing tool set to create a building model from an ex...