Showing posts with label Families. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Families. Show all posts
Friday, July 23, 2010

Demons In Your Data?

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The more you work with Revit the more likely you are to run into demons in the data. What do I mean by demons? Demons are unexplained behavi...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Instance Parameters: The Double Agent

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This is going to be particularly helpful to those of you working on large projects. Some of you may already be aware of it, but I haven'...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Revit News & Resources

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The UK Revit Users group is hosting a Revit Design Awards 2007 but you have to work in the UK to enter. For those of you familiar with Co...
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Some thoughts on Revit

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Some people have to be reminded that the project file is a database and like any database the more and accurate information about the projec...
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Sunday, March 04, 2007

SpecifiCAD beta for Revit 9.1 released

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CADalytic Media has released a beta version of SpecifiCAD. Utilizing the Revit API SpecifiCAD will add the URL and DESCRIPTION of any produc...
Thursday, December 21, 2006

Content Highway Beta Released Today

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In December 2005 Marek Brandstatter announced the development of Content Highway Desktop , a content management solution for Autodesk Revit ...
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Materials in Families

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When building your families you might notice there are many ways to apply materials to your solids. Here are 4 ways to apply materials and s...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Ductwork and Flues

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Found an interesting feature in sweeps today. Create a sweep with an arched path. Go to the sweeps properties and you'll notice two para...
Friday, September 22, 2006

Loading Libraries

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Goto File... Load from Library... Load Family and you'll notice icons on the left for Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, My Network Pla...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Family Templates

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Let's say you have an office standard for how doors and windows should appear in plan view and you want to incorporate this or any other...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Head & Sill Height Behavior

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Did you model a rough opening height for your window that has say a sloping sill and now your head height is not accurate in your schedule? ...
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Monday, August 28, 2006

Wall Layer Wrapping Control

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Let's say you've set your wall type parameter "Wrapping at Inserts" to Both because you want the exterior and interior fin...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Parametric Column Families

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Have you tried everything and you can't get your column to stretch parametrically? It can be a difficult task to figure out. There is no...
Tuesday, June 13, 2006

More Revit Content

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Form Fonts is a new subscription service offering Revit content. Revit Drop is another subscription service with some free content. CadPla...
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Electrical Symbols

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We have a very large residence that requires an overall coordination plan at 1/8" scale and 5 individual quadrants at 1/4" scale b...
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Monday, May 01, 2006

Upgrading Families

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Our family library has grown considerably and we were tired of seeing "THIS IS A ONE TIME UPGRADE PROCESS ONLY" every time we open...
Saturday, April 01, 2006

Door & Window Tips

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There is a lot one can learn about the family editor. I'll just briefly describe what it is and what tips will help you get started with...
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Friday, March 10, 2006

Family Visibility Control

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When creating a door or other family we find that when loaded into a project we sometimes like to be able to switch on and off parts of the ...
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Friday, February 10, 2006

Changing Family Categories

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Let's say you started to create a storefront (with door) using the door family template and now you want it to schedule as a window inst...
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