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Revit 2013 - Hatching Query
by John Flanagan
On a recent support call a customer wanted to know why she could select one ceiling hatch pattern (...
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Importing a Land.xml file into Revit 2015
by James Philip
The import LandXML tool in the Site Designer plugin for Revit 2015 is easy to use and solves the pro...
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Revit 2014 - Propagate Extents
by James Philip
Here’s a situation you may identify with, you have just created a column grid and the bubble heads a...
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Revit 2014 - 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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Free Revit Viewer
By Justin Doughty
Autodesk have now released a great new file viewer, it is free, accepts over 50 file formats in...
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Revit Architecture 2013 – Understanding Basic Wall Parts
by John Flanagan
When you begin a project, you often use the default types supplied with Revit for elements, such as...
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Revit - Understanding Different Family Types
by John Flanagan
There are various family types and many behave somewhat similarly. In some cases you can change the...
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Cutting a curved wall in Revit Architecture 2013
by John Flanagan
Question
How can I cut abstract or any random shapes out off a curved wall in Revit Architecture?
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Revit 2013 - Windows not cutting at wall level boundary
by John Flanagan
On a recent support call a customer requested some advice regarding the placement of staircase wind...
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Tracing a CAD Drawing in Revit Architecture 2013
by John Flanagan
When modelling in Revit Architecture, Delegates often ask if it’s possible to trace over a cad floo...
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Revit 2012 - Stairs and Railings
by John Flanagan
Every Revit user that I have spoken too has experienced at one time or another some difficulties wh...
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Revit 2015 - Using Design options within Worksets
by James Philip
When editing Design options within Worksets, the default settings will not allow you to edit the wor...
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Revit 2015 - Converting a Door to a Curtain Wall Door
by James Philip
The range of doors in the curtain panel section is very limited, so it would be useful to able to co...
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Revit 2015 - Converting a Door to a Curtain Wall Door
by James Philip
The range of doors in the curtain panel section is very limited, so it would be useful to able to co...
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Revit 2014 Cloud Rendering Problem
by James Philip
I recently installed Revit 2014 and encountered a problem when rendering in the cloud.
After select...
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Transfer Project Standards in Revit 2015
by Gareth Spencer
If you have been using AutoCAD then you will of probably been using the design centre to transfer ...
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View Range in Revit Architecture 2013
by John Flanagan
New users to Revit often struggle to understand the concept of View Range.
View Range Explained
E...
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How to adjust your Cameras field of view in Revit 2013/2014
by James Philip
How to adjust your Cameras field of view in Revit 2013/2014
It appeared that the only way to change...
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Creating Quick Grid Dimensions - Revit 2015
by Gareth Spencer
Adding dimensions sometimes in Revit is straightforward but when placing a continuous run of dimen...
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Parameters in Revit 2015
by Gareth Spencer
So it’s been a few weeks since Autodesk announced the release of Revit 2015 and as usual the inter...
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Revit Architecture 2012: Hide and Unhide Model Elements
by John Flanagan
In a recent training course in Revit Architecture the delegates hid various elements in a 3D model ...
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Using Snap Overrides in Revit 2015
by James Philip
When creating or editing objects within Revit, the snaps are selected automatically.
This is becaus...
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Revit 2014 & 2015 - 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 2015 COBie Toolkit
by Gareth Spencer
Autodesk have released their COBie Toolkit for Revit 2015. If you want to read more about this ...
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Programming with Revit 2014 and Dynamo
by Gareth Spencer
So have you ever done a bit of programming? The only bit of programming I have ever done is trying...
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Cut and Fill Calculations Using Revit 2014
by James Philip
Firstly create your top surface using any of the methods available.
Once the surface has been ...
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Revit Architecture 2014 - Browser Organisation
by James Philip
When working on a large project the number of views created in the project browser can be enormous, ...
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Revit 2014 - 3D section View
by James Philip
How to Create a 3D View of an existing Section
One method of creating a 3D Section View in Revit is...
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Revit 2015 - Tooltip Freezing Screen
by Gareth Spencer
Do you ever get the tooltips freezing on screen when using a second screen or projector? I do gene...
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Beam Instance Properties In Revit 2014
by Gareth Spencer
In Revit 2014, positioning for structural framing (structural beams) was enhanced which gives you ...