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Revit 2024 – Showing image in the background of a Revit View
By Dennis Collin
I was recently asked if it was possible to place a photo image in the background of a Revit model, ...
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Revit – Import a Drafting View from a CAD Program
By Garry Stockton
On a recent Revit training course, we spent some time on importing 2D CAD detailing into Revit. The...
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Revit 2024 – Align Surface Patterns
By Garry Stockton
In Revit 2024, when using the Align tool, you can now choose how surface patterns are aligned by se...
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Revit 2022 Tip – Problems aligning patterns on shape edited slab objects
By Dennis Collin
I recently had a question from a user who had issues adjusting fill patterns on a modified floor sl...
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Revit Tip – Dark Mode Tip for Legacy Revit Products 2023 and earlier
By Dennis Collin
Autodesk recently released Revit 2024 which has many new features over previous versions. One such ...
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Revit LT 2024 – A first look at what’s new
By Dennis Collin
It’s springtime, the sun is shining and it’s that time of year to see what new products Autodesk ha...
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Revit - Problems lining up Ducts?
By Dennis Collin
When working with Revit’s MEP tools the transition piece from one duct size to another is created a...
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Revit Tip – Transferring schedules between projects
By Dennis Collin
I am often asked in relation to the setting up of project templates the best way to migrate setting...
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Revit 2024 – Resize All Schedule Rows Height
By Dennis Collin
Controlling the look of schedules, especially when certain parts of the schedule table contain imag...
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Additional Materials in Revit
By Garry Stockton
On a recent training course, a user wasn’t aware that you can add additional materials to a project...
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Revit – Detailing (Detail views)
By Garry Stockton
When you create ‘Details’ they tend to bridge the gap between the design and building reality, conv...
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Revit 2024 – Working with Coordination Models?
By Dennis Collin
Last year I commented on how earlier versions of Revit were limited when working with linked coordi...
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Revit 2024 – Search Tool in Browser
By Garry Stockton
The new Search Tool embedded in the Project Browser is a useful tool. Once you use this new feature...
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Revit 2024 now includes Dynamo 2.17!
By Dennis Collin
Dynamo for Revit 2.17 is automatically installed with Revit as an internal add-in. Dynamo scripting...
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Revit 2023 – Legend Transfer Add-in
By Dennis Collin
I was recently asked how to transfer views between Revit projects. Revit can do this for certain it...
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Revit - Out of the box UK pipe content
By Dennis Collin
Revit comes with several starting templates for MEP users, however, the standard listed templates d...
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Revit Tip – Modelling Bespoke Site Features – Part 2
By Dennis Collin
Revit is an excellent tool for modelling buildings, however when modelling certain bespoke site ele...
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Revit 2024 – A first look at what’s new
By Dennis Collin
It’s that time of year again where we receive new versions of Autodesk software. Last week it was A...
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Revit - Ribbon display issues?
By Dennis Collin
Revit has had the Ribbon menu environment for many years, but I still receive questions on a variet...
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Revit Tip – Attaching wall like elements to Toposurface objects
By Dennis Collin
Over the past few years, the railings object has had some major improvements in how it displays and...
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Revit 2023 – Web Stiffener Add-in
By Dennis Collin
Revit has for several years had some additional steel connection tools to enable users to add basep...
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Revit Tip – Cutting holes into slabs and walls
By Dennis Collin
Revit has many ways to cut holes into walls and slabs, but some ways are better practice than other...
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Revit - Using Colour in Coordination Views
By Garry Stockton
Did you know you can use colour to help Coordinate Views in projects using Filters? Below is an exa...
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Revit - Revit Model Integrity
By Garry Stockton
On a recent CPD event, I was surprised to learn that many organisations using Revit don’t have a pr...
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Revit - Estimated Illumination Colour Legend
By Garry Stockton
Did you know you can create Colour Legends quickly to show Lux levels? Using colour to fill and ind...
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Revit 2023 – Linking Survey Data into the Revit “Site Plan”
By John Flanagan
Start a new project using the default Architectural Template and open the Site Plan view from the p...
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Revit 2023.1 Update – Sheet and View placement Improvements
By Dennis Collin
The Revit 2023.1 update has introduced many useful quality of life improvements for users. One feat...
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Revit 2023.1 Update – Users can now split MEP Components with a gap!
By Dennis Collin
Revit has for many years had the ability to split wall elements with a gap, which is very useful wh...
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Revit Tip – Getting Revit Families to report Model Group Name
By Dennis Collin
Revit possesses some powerful scheduling and reporting tools, but one question that is often asked ...
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Revit - Positioning Marker Posts in Revit
By Dennis Collin
I have been using and teaching Revit for over 20 years, but its out of the box toolsets for survey ...