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Revit 2021 Electrical enhancements
by Garry Stockton
In the new 2021 release of Revit 2021, Autodesk announced several enhancements for electrical fun...
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Revit Tips n Tricks – Rev A
by Garry Stockton
Drag to Copy
Hold down the Ctrl key and drag a component to make a copy of it.
Key it in
If you de...
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Revit 2022 Tip: Editing and Assigning Shortcut Keys
By Dennis Collin
A common question I often receive in Revit is about how to set or edit keyboard short-cuts to acces...
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Revit 2022 – Improved feature – Enhanced Revision Numbering
By Dennis Collin
A welcome development with the recent Revit 2022 release was the improvement to how Revision number...
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Revit - Overlay verses Attachment when linking files
By Garry Stockton
It can sometimes be a bit confusing to understand what Attachment and Overlay mean in Reference T...
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Can’t see Elements in Revit?
by Garry Stockton
Top 10 reasons you can't see an Element in Revit
Is the correct Workset being used?
Is the view r...
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Connecting Grilles/Terminals to Ductwork in Revit
by Garry Stockton
Revit - Connecting Grilles to Ductwork
Are you aware that you can develop your Duct run over the G...
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Revit - Schedule Elevation Parameters for MEP Elements
By Garry Stockton
Since Revit 2020 there is a great feature which allows you to schedule the Elevation Parameters. Th...
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Revit - Orient to View; How it works
by Garry Stockton
Orient to View
In a 3D view, to the right and slightly below of the 3D cube, is the context menu d...
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Revit 2021: Load One Family
by Justin Doughty
The introduction of the Load Autodesk Family Technology Preview in Revit 2021.1 lets you quickly p...
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Revit 2021: Quick Terrain
by Justin Doughty
There are many ways to add satellite/map data to a Revit file, however with the latest release of ...
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BIM 360: Revit IFC Type Parameters
by Justin Doughty
A recent Navisworks update has actually also been applied to BIM 360. In Navisworks 2021 Update 1 ...
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Revit – Resetting and Acquiring Co-ordinates
by Garry Stockton
One of the new features for Revit 2021.1 (update 2021.1 needs to be installed) can be used when wor...
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Revit 2021 - 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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Generative Design for Revit
by Garry Stockton
In Revit 2021, Autodesk included its first Generative Design tools directly within Revit. Additiona...
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Revit - File Naming
by Garry Stockton
Use only letters A-Z, hyphen, underscore and numbers 0-9 for all fields.
All fields shall be separ...
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Revit 2021: Exploring Shared Views
by Justin Doughty
With the Revit 2021.1 update Autodesk introduced Shared Views. Shared Views work in the same way a...
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Revit: Detaching whilst Worksharing
by Garry Stockton
While worksharing is a really useful tool for collaborative workflows, we have also encountered t...
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Revit Tip – Adding a sheet revision note, without adding a revision cloud
Revit has had a revisions tool to keep track of models and sheets for many years.
This is a manual process, where a...
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New Infrastructure Categories in Revit 2021
One of Revit 2021 new features is that it now better supports bridge, road and civil structure workflows. A new Infr...
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Revit 2021: Pipe Units and Symbols
by Justin Doughty
When it comes to annotation of pipework, different companies or people have different standards...
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Revit - Setting Variable Materials for Sloped Insulation
by Garry Stockton
Do you need to add insulation to your roof? Do you want a sloped structure or a sloped insulation i...
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Elevation Parameters for MEP Schedules
by Garry Stockton
Tag and Schedule Elevation Parameters for MEP Elements
A useful feature that was introduced In Re...
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Revit 2021 - Wall Sweep tool, missing control handles
Recently I posted a tip on how Revit’s Wall Sweep tool could be used to model interior details such as skirting or c...
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Revit 2021 - Infrastructure Categories
With the launch of Revit’s new 2021 platform there is a new Bridge Focussed category in the ‘Visibility Graphics Over...
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Revit 2021 - Row Colours in Scheduling
By Garry Stockton
Although you could create coloured Cell Rows in Revit 2020.1, it wasn’t something that was commonl...
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Revit 2021: UK Installation
by Justin Doughty
When performing the UK installation of Revit 2021, you may experience some issues afterwards where...
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Revit Viewer – Sharing Revit Models with Non-Revit Users
by Garry Stockton
Why is this online Revit viewer ideal within your working environment?
It requires no download...
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How to configure DWG or DGN export settings in Revit
by Garry Stockton
I’m sure you’re aware that unless you change the DWG/DGN settings, Revit will use ‘American Institu...
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Revit 2021: Remove Get Autodesk Content Button
by Justin Doughty
With the introduction of Revit 2021 came the new Button to download region specific templates and ...