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Revit 2018 Multi-Category Schedules
By James Philip
I was asked on a Training course whether it was possible to schedule many different category items i...
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Revit Architecture 2018 – Custom Revit Hatch Patterns (Part 2) Import .pat file from AutoCAD
By John Flanagan
Where are Hatch Patterns located?
Your hatch standard pattern definitions are located within your a...
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Revit 2018: Improvements to Cloud Services
By Justin Doughty
After exploring all of the new features of Revit 2018 I moved on to upgrading and working on a few...
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Revit Architecture 2018 – Conceptual Massing – Setting Work Planes
By John Flanagan
Introduction
As you get ready to draw conceptual massing elements, you first need to understand how...
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Revit – Using predefined layers from dwg/dxf file
By Garry Stockton
Whilst training I’m often asked about importing layer standards into Revit projects, with this in ...
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Showing Revit 2018 Rebar through structural objects in shaded or hidden line views
By Dennis Collin
When working on a Revit structures model it is sometimes desired to have the reinforcement bars show...
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Autodesk Enhanced IFC Exporter for Revit 2018
By James Philip
The Autodesk Enhanced IFC Exporter for Revit 2018 is another useful tool when working on BIM Project...
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Revit – Missing Browser/Properties
By Garry Stockton
New users often close the Properties and Project browsers without realising it. Here is simple way...
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Revit Architecture 2018 – How to Create a Blank Dimension in Revit 2018
By John Flanagan
Introduction
Sometimes we need to add notes to dimensions. Here is a tip about creating Blank Dim...
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Adding a Custom Hatch Pattern to Revit 2018
By James Philip
Revit accepts the same format Hatch pattern as AutoCAD, which is the *.pat file extension which is ed...
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Attaching wall like objects to toposurface objects with Revit 2018
By Dennis Collin
Over the past few years the Railings object has had some major improvements in how it displays and c...
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Revit Architecture 2018 – Roofs – An Overview
By John Flanagan
Introduction : The two main methods of creating roofs in Revit are outlined below.
Adding a roof by...
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PointSense for Revit – Create Toposurface From Point Cloud
By Justin Doughty
There are many ways to generate a Toposurface, both inside and outside of Revit. Using PointSense ...
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Revit Structure 2018 – Joining Columns to Walls
By John Flanagan
Introduction
Figure 1 shows a stepped footing with a foundation perimeter wall and some evenly spac...
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Revit Architecture 2017 – Placing Basic Mass Elements
By John Flanagan
My previous blog gave an overview of massing for preliminary design. This blog looks at the basic m...
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Revit 2017 Import/Export Excel
By James Philip
This app allows you to export your schedules to Excel, edit them and re-import them back into Revit a...
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Revit 2017 Multi-Category Schedules
By James Philip
Revit 2017 Multi-Category Schedules
I was asked on a training course recently whether it was possibl...
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Revit 2017 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 Structure 2018 – Splitting Columns at Finished Floor Levels
By John Flanagan
Introduction
During a recent training course in Revit Structure, a delegate asked if there was a wa...
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Revit 2018 – Creating a custom door tag (Width and Height)
By Garry Stockton
If you want to include dimensions (Width and Height) in a door tag, the following steps will help ...
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Revit: Copying a Standard or Custom Schedule to other Projects
By Garry Stockton
There will be times when we want to use the same schedule we just created in another project (rath...
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Revit Architecture 2018 – Custom Revit Hatch Patterns (Part 1)
By John Flanagan
Introduction
Fill / Hatch patterns or Poche patterns are material designations that you’ll find insi...
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Revit 2018 - Quick Tip: Hide an Entire Category
By Martin Phelps
A Quick Method to Hide an Entire Category.
There are a number of ways to control the visibility of ...
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Revit 2017 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 Architecture 2017 – Conceptual Massing
By John Flanagan
Introduction
The Conceptual Massing Environment provides flexibility early in the design process to...
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Revit Architecture 2017 – Applying Materials to Mass Elements
By John Flanagan
Introduction
My previous blog outlined the steps to place basic mass elements (Cylinder, Box, Pyram...
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Revit Architecture 2017 – Overview of Massing Studies
By John Flanagan
The focus is the overall shape and footprint of the building which you develop in a massing study. ...
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Revit 2017 Faro PointSense for Revit
By Justin Doughty
There are many tools and methods to create Revit models from Point Cloud Data, however one of the ...
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Making Revit Families more location aware
By Dennis Collin
A common issue when creating a schedule in Revit, is that the software sometimes does not show the ...
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Revit – Creating a new Custom Line Pattern
By Garry Stockton
Whilst there are quite a few ‘Line Patterns ‘(Manage Tab, Settings Panel, Additional Settings, Line...