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Revit Basics – Create Similar
This is an excerpt from an article that I wrote for AUGIWorld. Until Revit 2010, the only easily accessible location to activate the Create Similar command was in the right-click context menu after a...
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Revit Basics – Orient to View
This is an excerpt from an article that I wrote for AUGIWorld. Models routinely become large or complex over the life of a project, and consequently a Revit user will occasionally want to isolate, in...
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Revit Basics – Selecting a Detail Bubble
For several reasons Revit users will often want to show only the bubble portion of a section cut or a callout. For example, they want a bubble shown thus: This is normally achieved via pulling the...
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Revit Basics – Temporary Dimensions
This is an excerpt from an article that I wrote for AUGIWorld. When selecting an element, beginners are taught that the little blue dimensions that appear are temporary dimensions. Unfortunately the...
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I was asked the other day by a user, a frustrated user, how come you can’t go right into the rotate command and place the center rotation point? Well you can easily do this with a keyboard shortcut by...
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Revit Basics – User Interface
During every training session this question comes up multiple times. “How do I get my Project Browser (or Pr0perties, or Zoom dialog thingy) back on the screen. If you accidentally turn off any of...
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Revit Basics – Dropping Families
When placing families in a project most everyone knows that you can go to the command you need to place a file. For example if you want to draw a wall then you go to the wall command, if you want to...
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Revit Basics – Linework Tool
The linework tool is found on the Modify tab, in the View panel. With this tool a Revit user can override the graphical style of a model element, i.e. change something from a solid to a dashed or...
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Framing Orientation
This is one of those Revit basics that has been forgotten, or perhaps never learned. In the instance parameters for structural framing members, there is a parameter called “Orientation”. The framing...
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Instance based Family System Parameters
A question came up on how to change a family system parameter from Type based to Instance based. It made me think of the good old days when we had to start a family, say structural foundation or door...
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Revit Basics – Group Origin Points
I am not a big fan of groups I tend to think they get over used in lieu of families, but this post isn’t going to get into that. With that said there is a time and place for their use and when they...
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