Revit

Revit Tip – Modelling Bespoke Site Features – Part 1
By Dennis Collin Revit is an excellent tool for modelling buildings, however, I also conduct many training sessions ...
Revit 2023.1 now includes Dynamo 2.16!
By Dennis Collin Dynamo for Revit 2.16 is automatically installed with Revit as an internal add-in. The Dynamo scrip...
Revit - Rotating Floor or Ceiling Patterns
By Garry Stockton Rotate tiles on a floor, ceiling or other surface to reflect your design intent. Place the cursor o...
Revit Tip – Accessing Recap Scan Regions in Revit
By Dennis Collin Laser Scanning has been around for many years now and a common question is how to integrate this d...
Revit 2023 – Managing Families – “Container Files”
By John Flanagan Create Container Files for Families Searching for the correct family in the family libraries can be...
Revit MEP 2023 – Placing Views on Sheets
By John Flanagan There are several ways to place views on sheets. An easy option is just to simply drag a desired vi...
Revit - Using Reference Planes for Lights
By Garry Stockton This topic came up in a recent training session because ceiling hosted lights were deleted when the...
Revit 2023.1 Update – Edit Revisions on multiple sheets
By Dennis Collin Revit 2023’s latest update has also brought some improvements when adding revisions to a sheet. In ...
Revit 2023.1 Update – Floor Sub-object Modelling Improvements
By Dennis Collin Revit has for many years had the ability to crease or fold floor objects, which is useful when work...
Revit 2023.1 Update – Lots of Autumnal Enhancements and Improvements
By Dennis Collin It’s that time of year for those point release updates for many Autodesk products. Yesterday a big ...
Revit Tip - Placing just the project filename on a sheet
By Dennis Collin I recently posted on how users can get a Revit title sheet family to report the location of the aut...
Revit 2023 – Avoid Problems with Groups
By John Flanagan Do not use Datum Levels Inside Groups Datum elements include Grids, Levels, Reference Planes and Sc...
Revit Tip – Customising Revit Section Lines – Part 1
By Dennis Collin A common question I get from Revit users is, can I modify the appearance of section lines and symbo...
Revit - Detaching whilst Worksharing
By Garry Stockton Whilst worksharing is a useful tool for collaborative workflows, we have also encountered the rare ...
Revit Path of Travel for Evacuation Plans
By Garry Stockton Path of Travel The Path of Travel tool which was first introduced in Revit 2020 now has several enh...
Revit MEP Schedules (Elevation Parameters)
By Garry Stockton Tag and Schedule Elevation Parameters for MEP Elements A useful, but not commonly known feature, th...
Revit - Render Settings Greyed Out?
By Garry Stockton If you are trying to render a view, but you can't change some of the Render Settings because they g...
Revit Tip – Disabling automatic committing of changes to parameters
By Dennis Collin A question I was asked recently was how to stop Revit automatically committing changes to parameter...
Revit Tip – Displaying authoring file location on ‘paper’ drawings
By Dennis Collin I recently discussed methodologies on automatic location file locations on plotted or issued drawin...
Revit 2023 – Railings
By John Flanagan Introduction You can create railings that are free-standing or attached to hosts such as floors, ra...
Revit Tip – Help! I cannot see an element in Revit
By Dennis Collin For new or even existing Revit users, a common question is why they cannot see a certain element in...
Revit - Shared Views Tool
By Garry Stockton Shared Views in Revit Use Shared Views to collaborate on a 3D visual representation of your model ...
Revit - Adding Sloped Roof Insulation
By Garry Stockton Setting Variable Materials for use in sloped roof insulation. Do you need to add insulation to your...
Revit Tip – Aligning fill patterns to show correct coursing of masonry
By Dennis Collin In Revit a common question that is frequently asked by customers is how to re-align the Model Hatch...
Revit 2023 – Groups: Setting the Origin & Groups in the Project Browser
By John Flanagan Setting the Origin Each group has an origin indicated with a blue dot. The origin can be moved. Typ...
Revit 2023 – Revit Architecture for Landscape Architects
By John Flanagan Limitations of Revit for Landscaping Within the realm of landscape architecture, the main issue wit...
Revit - Elevation Parameters for Schedules in Revit MEP
By Garry Stockton Tag and Schedule Elevation Parameters for MEP Elements This underused feature that was introduced b...
Revit Tip – Rotating text reference within Section Head element
By Dennis Collin A common task for setting up Revit project templates is the creation and configuration of such fami...
Revit - Avoid 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 ar...
Revit 2023 – Tips to Organise Schedules
By John Flanagan ZOOM IN AND OUT OF SCHEDULES Hold CTRL + Mouse Wheel to zoom in and out of schedules. ACTIVATE ST...