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Revit Tip: Turn off drag elements on selection
by Dennis Collin
When working within a Revit project it is all too easy to inadvertently drag and move an element ...
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Revit 2021 - Placing Constraints – Equalise Dimensions
by John Flanagan
Equalise Dimensions
Equality Constraints in Revit are an easy way to get automatic, equal spacing b...
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Working with Dimensional Constraints in Revit
by John Flanagan
Lock a permanent dimension to create a constraint.
Use dimensional constraints to create relationsh...
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Working with Constraints in Revit – Levels & Grids
by John Flanagan
Working with Constraints in Revit – Levels & Grids
Constraints in Revit allow you to lock elements ...
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Revit 2021 - Alpha Numeric Revisions
By James Philip
When creating revisions in Revit, the options for the Revision Number are numerical or alphabetical, ...
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Revit 2021 - 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 2021 - Using Snap Overrides
By James Philip
When creating, or editing objects within Revit, the snaps are selected automatically. This is beca...
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Revit 2021 - Restore Elements to a Group Instance
By James Philip
If elements are excluded from group instance, they may be need to be restored. The items can be manua...
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Revit 2021 - 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 Tip: How to control Temporary Dimensions default measurement method
by Dennis Collin
Temporary dimensions are very useful to control relative positions of elements within a project. Cl...
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Revit 2021 - Show camera in 3D View error
By James Philip
If you create a 3D Camera view and then change the view discipline. (See Figs 1 & 2)
Then when you ...
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Revit 2021 - Editing the Camera in a Walkthrough
By James Philip
Once you have created a Walkthrough in Revit, to edit the camera path, height or direction can be dif...
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Revit 2021 - Baluster Editing Options
By James Philip
This is a situation many of us encounter. We have just created the perfect stair, but the Baluster le...
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Revit 2021 - Adding Material to a Stair Tread
By James Philip
In Revit the stair creation process has been greatly simplified in recent releases, but if you are an...
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Revit MEP 2021 - 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 Tip: Reveal Constraints Function
by Dennis Collin
Constraints are a very powerful feature in Revit where rules can be set as to the positioning beh...
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Revit Tip: Customise mouse buttons to avoid accidental editing of components
by Dennis Collin
It is all too easy to accidentally go in and edit Revit components, especially when working with ta...
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Revit 2021 – Constraint Tip – Disjoin/Move
by John Flanagan
Disjoin/Move.
Disjoin: Click Disjoin to break the association between the selection and other eleme...
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Revit 2021 – Moves with Nearby Element
by John Flanagan
Dragging a Wall in Revit with the Moves With Nearby Element activated.
In Revit we use constraints ...
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Revit Tip: Connecting stairs to slabs Revit
by Dennis Collin
Users often ask how to get stairs to connect better to slabs, without having to resort to using In-...
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Revit MEP 2021 - Overcoming problems when using eccentric transition
By James Philip
When working in Revit MEP the transition from one duct size to another is created automatically.
How...
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Revit Architecture 2021 – Browser Organisation
By James Philip
When working on a large project the number of views created in the project browser can be enormous, s...
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Revit 2021 - Original Materials and Phase Filters
By James Philip
We were asked would it be possible to keep the original wall material display and just apply a colour...
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Revit Tip: Enabling text field to break onto multiple lines
by Dennis Collin
Did you know you that it is possible to manually insert line breaks into view titles and schedule t...
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Importing Excel tables into Revit
by Dennis Collin
Need to Import Excel Spreadsheets into Revit?
The ability to bring in Excel Spreadsheets is a co...
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Using Dynamo Scripting to ‘Tag’ Building Pad objects in Revit
by Dennis Collin
Fig. Using Dynamo to tag building pads. (Well almost!)
When working in Revit best practice dict...
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New way of loading content in Revit 2021.1 – Technology Preview!
by Dennis Collin
With the recent update to Revit 2021 a technology preview was introduced providing a more graphical...
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Working with legacy CAD data for Revit Profile Families
by Dennis Collin
Question: What do I need to do to prepare a profile from AutoCAD for use in a Revit family?
Answer:...
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FAQ – Setting Revit’s save reminder for single user and work-shared projects
by Dennis Collin
Question: How do I change the save reminder intervals within Revit?
Answer: Open the Options dial...
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Revit Tip: Using Revit’s Phase feature for renovation projects
by Dennis Collin
“How do I use Phasing in Revit?” is a common question I receive from users. Phasing is where we can...