Revit

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 ...
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...
Working with Dimensional Constraints in Revit
by John Flanagan Lock a permanent dimension to create a constraint. Use dimensional constraints to create relationsh...
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 ...
Revit 2021 - Alpha Numeric Revisions
By James Philip When creating revisions in Revit, the options for the Revision Number are numerical or alphabetical, ...
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 ...
Revit 2021 - Using Snap Overrides
By James Philip   When creating, or editing objects within Revit, the snaps are selected automatically. This is beca...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Revit 2021 – Constraint Tip – Disjoin/Move
by John Flanagan Disjoin/Move. Disjoin: Click Disjoin to break the association between the selection and other eleme...
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 ...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...