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Autodesk Revit 2015 – Editing Dimension Text
By Martin Phelps
This one’s quick and simple but can be a useful tip. To change the dimension text, simply double c...
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Revit 2015 - Content for MEP users
By Dennis Collin
Bonus Revit 2015 content for MEP Users!
Last year Autodesk did a Content Pa...
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Revit 2015 – Trench Family - Nested and Arrayed
by Liam O'Connor
As part of producing your Revit model you may need to show Cable Trench’s which house your servic...
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Revit MEP 2012 - Copying Plumbing Fixtures from Architect's Model
by Stuart Tanfield
Trying to determine the best way to utilise the information an architect may have already added t...
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Revit 2012 - Part Selection of Chain
by Stuart Tanfield
One of the more insignificant but useful nonetheless parts of Revit is the ability to select part...
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Revit 2012 - Filtering by Family Type in Schedules Cheat
by Stuart Tanfield
If you need to create a schedule which shows element by Family Type, you will notice that you can...
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Revit 2012 - Tab Key
by Stuart Tanfield
For those of you who use Revit and have used it for a while, you will know that the TAB key is cr...
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Revit 2015 - Adding a Railing Mid-Way On To a Stair Flight
by Martin Phelps
In many projects a railing may be required down the middle of the flight of stairs this can easily ...
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Revit Architecture 2015 – Column Type Differences
By John Flanagan
Revit Architecture 2015: Column Type Differences: Architectural Columns / Structural Columns
Introd...
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Revit Architecture 2015 – Editing Elements Interactively
By John Flanagan
Revit Architecture 2015: Editing Elements Interactively - Inserting and Aligning Components
Using...
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Revit 2015 - COBie Toolkit
By James Philip
One of the most common questions I am asked when teaching the BIM process is how to create and extr...
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Revit 2015 - Alternative use for Mullions
by Justin Doughty
I’ve recently been experimenting with some various “alternative” uses for Revit elements. One of t...
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Revit 2012 - Splitting Schedules Across Multiple Sheets
by Stuart Tanfield
Something that has come up recently a couple of times, which has prompted me to write this blog, ...
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Revit 2012 - Modifying Height Of Scope Box
by Stuart Tanfield
Before you go any further, if you haven’t used scope boxes go to one of my previous blogs to read...
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Revit 2015 - Saved Filters and Visibility Graphics
by Liam O'Connor
Creating a Filter in Revit is pretty straight forward. Once you’ve “Filtered” down to what you need...
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Revit 2015 - Transparency in Elevation or Section Views
by Justin Doughty
The default behaviour of Revit can sometimes catch us out. I was recently asked by a user, how cou...
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Revit LT 2014 Default Template Materials
by Justin Doughty
Recently whilst comparing differences between Revit 2014 and Revit LT 2014, I happened to notice o...
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Revit 2014 Export 3D DGN
by Justin Doughty
Recently I was asked how to produce 3D DGN files directly in Revit 2014. Initially I assumed this ...
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Revit 2013 - Sections Of 3D AutoCAD Drawings
by Justin Doughty
Recently I have had quite a few support calls regarding the linking or inserting of 3D AutoCAD dra...
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Annotating cable and wire service types in Revit 2015
by Dennis Collin
When producing service drawings AutoCAD has a nice powerful linetype editor that works with user ...
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Revit 2012 - Visual Settings
by Stuart Tanfield
At times Revit can produce some quite stark images from the default settings. Perhaps you want so...
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Revit 2012 - Part Selection of Chain
by Stuart Tanfield
One of the more insignificant but useful nonetheless parts of Revit is the ability to select part...
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Revit 2011 - Creating a Timber Cladding Finish
by Stuart Tanfield
One of the questions that comes up quite a lot, certainly in smaller scale jobs is how to create ...
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Revit 2015 – Adding “Special Characters Symbols ” to Text
by Liam O'Connor
Revit Quick Tip: Adding Special characters to Text using Revit 2015
Adding text notes to Revit is ...
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Revit 2015 and the Equal Sign
by Liam O'Connor
After years of using a calculator I’ve become very lazy when it comes to working figures out and us...
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Revit Architecture 2015 – Create Elevation Views
by John Flanagan
Create 'Floor Plan' Callouts instead of 'Detail' Callouts.
If you plan on creating 'Elevation...
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Rotating a Ceiling Grid in Revit Architecture 2015
Adding a ceiling grid to a Revit model can be accomplished by firstly activating the relevant ceiling plan in the “Pr...
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Changing the Project Units in Revit
By Martin Phelps
Not an often requested function, but sometimes users may wish to change the unit type for example f...
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Revit 2015 – Using Match Type Properties
by Liam O'Connor
Revit Quick Tip: Using Match Type Properties Revit
One of the best things about using Revit is the...
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Annotation Scale Bar for Autodesk Revit 2015
by Liam O'Connor
Labels are a great way of allowing very quick and sometimes automatic changes to Text in your model...