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Revit - Import CAD/Revit and other files to correct location
By Garry Stockton
New Revit users may get a little confused when importing other files into Revit. The following will...
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Revit Architecture 2020 – Browser Organisation
By James Philip
When working on a large project the number of views created in the project browser can be enormous, s...
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Revit 2020 - Split Revision Table
By James Philip
I was at a customer site and was asked the question “Can you split Revision Tables into multiple colu...
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Revit 2020 - Modelling Environments
By John Flanagan
There are many approaches to creating 3D Geometry and designing building forms and in Revit we have...
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Revit - Create a Material Take-off Schedule - Part 2
By Garry Stockton
Following on from my previous blog, where I created a Wall Material Take-off, this 2nd document is ...
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Revit - Create a Material Take-off Schedule - Part 1
By Garry Stockton
Material take-off schedules list the sub-components or materials of any Revit family. Material take...
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Revit – AutoSave, Add-in
By Dennis Collin
Remember these? Floppy disks are what we used to save our work onto before network drives and remote...
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Revit - Backup File Organiser Add-in
By Dennis Collin
Managing backup files can be a little tedious, as project folders if not carefully managed, can be e...
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Useful Revit Add-in - Linked Project Base Point and Survey Point Checker
By Dennis Collin
Managing a project with multiple linked models can be a real challenge. The out of the box tools pro...
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Revit – How to find your serial number
By Dennis Collin
I recently wrote a post to help AutoCAD users locate their serial number of their product. It is a s...
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Revit - Using Imperial Values in a Metric Project
By Martin Phelps
From time to time, whilst producing a metric drawing, an imperial dimension may be required. To save...
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Revit 2020 – Material User Interface Improvements
By John Flanagan
Material User Interface Improvements
The Material Libraries icon has been modified to make it more ...
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Revit 2020 - Previewing & Loading Revit Families
By John Flanagan
Introduction
Revit comes stocked with a lot of components in the Metric Library e.g. doors, windows...
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Revit - Default Colours
By Martin Phelps
Hot desking or moving from machine, may from time to time require some changes to the working enviro...
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Revit – Useful add-in to reveal hidden elements
By Dennis Collin
A common question I have with Revit is ‘Why can’t I see ‘X’ in my view?’ The answer of course is qui...
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Revit – Easy way to import selected view templates from a linked model
By Dennis Collin
The venerable transfer project standards command is an out of the box method to transfer system fami...
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Revit – Presenting obscured elements with a hidden line style
By Dennis Collin
When producing drawings which contain elements that are obscured by other items standard drawing pra...
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Revit 2020 - Constraint Tip – Disjoin Move
By John Flanagan
Moving a Wall in Revit with the Move Tool.
In my previous blog we used the click and drag function ...
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Revit 2020 – Constraint Tip
By John Flanagan
Dragging a Wall in Revit with the Moves With Nearby Element activated.
In Revit we use constraints ...
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Revit - Managing Backup files for single user projects
By Dennis Collin
When users first start to use Revit there is often a question as to why Revit creates so many files,...
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Revit 2020 - 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...
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Revit 2020 - 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 2020 - 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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Revit – Quick view renaming add-in
By Dennis Collin
Keeping Revit’s collection of views tidy is always a challenge. View templates are an invaluable way...
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Revit MEP – Space Naming Utility working with IFC data
By Dennis Collin
The Revit Space Naming utility (SNU) is a very useful tool within Revit as it enables the MEP engine...
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Revit - Understand Wall Joins
By Garry Stockton
Wall joins! If you don’t understand them, they can be an unnerving feature of Revit, especially if ...
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Revit 2020: Model in Place – Concrete Cap Stone
By John Flanagan
Introduction
Training delegates often ask how to create bespoke components. Revit’s Model In-Place ...
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Revit 2020 - Using Snap Overrides
By James Philip
When creating or editing objects within Revit, the snaps are selected automatically. This is because...
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Revit - Create a Dormer at Roof’s Edge
By James Philip
When you create a roof Dormer in two parts at the roof’s edge, the dormer section will not join to th...
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Revit 2020 - Auto Excel
By James Philip
This app allows you to export your schedules to Excel to edit them and re-import them back into Revit...