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Changing a Revit Template file(.RTE) as a Project File (.RVT)
by Garry Stockton
Can't save Revit "template" (.rte) file as a "project" (.rvt) file
Causes:
Revit Templates are cre...
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Revit 2021 – Path of Travel Enhancements
Path of Travel
The Path of Travel tool which was first introduced in Revit 2020, now has a number of enhancements tha...
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Revit: Flow rates in Project Units - Piping
by Garry Stockton
A subtle change in Revit 2021 to Piping.
Liters(Litres) per Hour/Minute/Second for Flow has been ...
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Revit 2021: Exporting Tips
by John Flanagan
Exporting Tips
Exporting Autodesk Revit Projects to various CAD file formats is a common need in co...
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Revit 2021: An Overview of Massing.
by John Flanagan
Massing in Revit
Mass Elements are used to give you a conceptual idea of the space and shape of a...
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Revit 2021 - Find and place families quickly with Revit’s Search function
When Revit projects get to a more advanced stage, they tend to get quite complex in structure and desired content ca...
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New Visualisation Tools in Revit 2021
by Garry Stockton
When compared to Plugins like Enscape and Lumion, Revit’s visualisation tools have been lacking. Au...
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Modelling Pre-cast Stairs in Revit tip
By Dennis Collin
When modelling Precast stair types in Revit, an error message often results with the following; ‘A ...
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Useful items for your Revit Project when working from home
By Garry Stockton
Revit City is a USA based portal for free Revit Families. Whether you need a Car, Garden Furniture,...
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Revit 2020 – Creating Custom Templates
By John Flanagan
Revit 2020 – Creating Custom Templates
Introduction
Think of a template as a pre-set starting point...
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Setting consistent view extents across different sheets in Revit
By Dennis Collin
Scope boxes are an often-missed function in Revit. However, this command is an excellent way to ens...
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Staggering a Section view in Revit
By Dennis Collin
I am often asked this question during training courses on whether Revit can do this. This is a very ...
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Using Dynamo to Schedule Coordinates in Revit – Part 2
By Dennis Collin
Last year I posted on how Dynamo can be employed to extract coordinates to a Revit schedule.
The li...
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Revit - Fine tuning drawing and models with the nudge command
By Dennis Collin
Graphics programs like Illustrator have a very useful utility to move elements by a certain increme...
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Revit 2021 – New Scheduling Features
Freeze Header in Schedules
With the new Revit release, you now can freeze or lock the main header and column headers ...
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Revit LT 2021 – Things to consider when using LT for content creation within an MEP environment
Revit LT is often asked about as a package for working on Revit projects. Many features such as the creation of struc...
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Modelling stair and slab intersections in Revit – Tip
By Dennis Collin
How to achieve the above condition is often asked when trying to model a certain feature in Revit....
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Dimensioning an irregular building in Revit Tip
By Dennis Collin
When dimensioning along or across wall elements that are not parallel or perpendicular, use the TAB...
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Revit - Detail level by category
By Garry Stockton
Detail Level by Category
Do you know your View in Revit has its own Detail Level that will start dr...
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Revit 2021 Installation Recommendations
by Garry Stockton
When installing the new Revit 2021 currently, it downloads the 2020 platform Templates and Families...
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Revit - Greyed out render settings
by Garry Stockton
If you are trying to render a view but you can't change some of the Render Settings because they ...
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Understanding Revit Parameters - Part 4, Global Parameters
By Dennis Collin
Global parameters were introduced to Revit in the 2017 release. They are project specific parameters...
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Revit Template Checklist
By Garry Stockton
Whilst delivering training, I am often asked about creating a Revit Template.
The following is a c...
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Using scope box to set a local block plan within a large Revit site model
By Dennis Collin
If you have been using Revit for some time, you may well be aware of the north orientation property...
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Revit - Sketchy Lines
By Garry Stockton
One of the features that was added in Revit 2015 was Sketchy Lines. This is an under used tool that...
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Up , Up and Away! Visualise and inspect Models with the Fly function in Revit 2020
By Dennis Collin
You don’t need to originate from the planet Krypton to be able to fly around Revit models! With the...
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Simplifying the display of stairs within Revit tip
By Dennis Collin
Stairs are a very complex family type and when viewed by default in a project, tend to display far...
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Revit 2020 – The Selection Tray
By John Flanagan
Revit 2020 – The Selection Tray
Introduction:
There are now four selection options which can be acc...
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Creating immersive, interactive Revit models with Unity Reflect
By Dennis Collin
When working with Revit you sometimes need to create immersive, interactive experiences from multipl...
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Revit - Transfer Revit Standards to a New Project
By Garry Stockton
Did you know you can transfer your Revit standards from one project to another? Project standards i...