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Revit – Converting Mass Instances to Building Elements
by Garry Stockton
Once you have created any Mass instances in Revit, you can create building elements from the faces ...
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Revit - Resetting the Camera View
By Martin Phelps
When using the “Camera” to create a photo realistic “View” of the model, the displayed view can be a...
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Revit User Performance Tips (Part 1)
by Garry Stockton
Whether new to Revit, or an experienced user, we can often forget some of the basic things when us...
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Revit 2024 – Adding Symbols
by John Flanagan
Revit 2024: Adding Symbols
Symbols are 2D annotations that you can place in any view to highlight ...
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Revit - Drawing a “Wall” at an Angle Relating to the Last Drawn “Wall”
By Martin Phelps
Draw the “Wall” at the required angle, as shown in Figure 1.
Once the “Wall” has been drawn, its an...
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Revit - Using Count in Schedules
By Garry Stockton
You cannot use the count parameter in a formula which can be challenging, so if you want to know th...
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Moving from Planning to Tender Stage Drawings with Revit
by Garry Stockton
So, you’ve submitted your planning drawings and received your permission from the local council. T...
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Revit - Export DWG/DXF Settings (2016-2024)
by Garry Stockton
Did you know, before exporting a model to DWG or DXF, you can create or modify an export setup to ...
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Revit User Performance Tips (Part 2)
by Garry Stockton
Whether new to Revit or an experienced user, we can often forget some of the basic things when usi...
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New to Revit? File Naming Tips
by Garry Stockton
Revit File Naming
Use only letters A-Z, hyphen, underscore and numbers 0-9 for all fields.
All fie...
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Revit – Using Clipping Planes
by Garry Stockton
Revit has a great tool when viewing 2D and 3D content.
Near and far clipping planes are imaginary ...
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Revit – Useful Add-in – Improved Alignment Function for Revit!
By Dennis Collin
When working in Revit, whatever the discipline, there is a requirement to align and organise compon...
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Revit - Tip for Worksharing
By Garry Stockton
Whilst worksharing is a useful tool for collaborative workflows, we have also encountered the rare ...
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Revit 2024 – Using Path of Travel for Site Models
By Dennis Collin
I was recently asked about using Path of Travel lines on a site model. The idea was to be able to e...
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Revit 2024 - Create Families
By John Flanagan
Revit Families
Families are Revit files (.rfa) which you create and load into Revit Projects (.rvt)...
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Revit MEP – Working with Panel Schedules
By Dennis Collin
Revit can generate panel schedules for branch panels, data panels and switchboxes. This schedule wi...
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Revit 2024 – General Improvements
By John Flanagan
As with all new releases, Revit 2024 includes several resolved issues and updated system behaviour....
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Revit 2024.1 – Structural Section Shape Parameters in Tags
By Dennis Collin
Another major improvement with the Revit 2024.1 release is the addition of many more parameters ava...
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Revit 2024 - Adding Views to Sheets
By John Flanagan
Adding Views to Sheets
You can now drag multiple views or schedules from the Project Browser to pla...
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Revit 2024.1 – Split with Gap on Structural Elements
By Dennis Collin
Revit 2024.1 brings many improvements, one that will prove useful for structural models is the new ...
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Revit 2024.1 – Cutting Toposolids with Shaft Opening Tip
By Dennis Collin
With the release of Revit 2024, the Toposurface and Building Pad elements were discontinued. Surfac...
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Revit 2024.1 – Export Fill Patterns to PAT Format
By Dennis Collin
Recently I posted about how a user could create a user defined pattern fill within a text file and ...
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Revit – Tips for reducing the size of your model
By Garry Stockton
There’s nothing worse than when you click in Revit and get the blue circle telling you it’s thinkin...
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Revit – Sheet Organisation
By Garry Stockton
On a recent training course, a delegate asked how he could organise his Drawing Sheets better, maki...
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Revit Tip – Overriding the view range in a plan view
By Dennis Collin
I was recently asked a question relating to view range. The view range function defines a series of...
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Revit - Useful Naming Content Ideas
By Garry Stockton
File Naming in the Project Browser
Use only letters A-Z, hyphen, underscore and numbers 0-9 for al...
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Revit 2024 Tip – Temporary View Properties
By Dennis Collin
It is often the case that Revit working views need to have their view settings temporarily overridd...
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Revit 2023 - Flat Landscape in Revit
By John Flanagan
On small flat sites, use floors instead of Toposurface. Use floors to represent site elements on si...
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Revit 2023 – Working with Site Features
By John Flanagan
Creating a Toposurface
You can create a topographical surface in Revit, which is distinct from a fl...
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Revit 2024 Tip: A Trio of Origins! The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?
By Dennis Collin
When working in Revit and need to share models with other consultants it’s important to understand ...