We are huge fans of the BIM Interoperability Tools for Revit over here at CADD. We blog about them a lot and we even make files for them to share on our CADD Community. The original four tools: Classification Manager, Model Checker, Model Checker Configurator and COBie Extension for Revit have recently released a major update. …
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I am a huge fan of loadable components both 3D and 2D. So today, I’m going to take this post and talk about detail components (the 2D ones) inside Revit and why you should be using them. First of all, I am 100% a keynote person, and not just keynotes in general, but element and …
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We are rolling down the highway in our comically small car as we highlight some of the best Revit commands that usually get ignored because their buttons are so small! If you missed parts 1-3 of this series, you can read the individual posts in the links below. Check out Part 1 on the Linework …
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It’s finally fall, which means it’s time for football, cooler temperatures, pumpkin flavor everything, and our team to hit the road and head to a city near you. Join us for something you can’t get anywhere else. The Tech Tour is our free, half-day Autodesk user conference featuring technical experts presenting new and innovative ways you can combine the …
I think I might rename this blog series to Tiny Tools Adventures. What do you think? Now you have the theme song stuck in your head, don’t you? Check out Part 1 on the Linework command here. Check out Part 2 on the Selection Box here. Match Type Properties You know when you have a …
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You’ve been told to ALWAYS link a CAD file into Revit, never import and DEFINITELY never explode. This is how you keep CAD junk out of your Revit model, right? Turns out that the answer is yes…and no. While linking doesn’t bring in the layers and linetypes, I just discovered recently that it does bring …
We continue our series highlighting some poor overlooked Revit commands that seem doomed to their fate simply because their buttons are so very very small. Check out Part 1 on the Linework command here. Selection Box Let’s spend a little more time on the View panel in the Modify ribbon. The Selection Box command only …
We get to teach a lot of Revit classes and often the students have a fair amount of Revit experience. But there is always one of two commands that we discuss in class that even the experienced Revit users say “I didn’t know about that!” A piece of software as complicated as Revit has a …
Revit 2019.1 dropped recently and there are some great new features in it for working with your civil engineers. We are diving into those features and will blog about them soon, but for now I wanted to cover a small but neat, new feature: the new Revit Home. New Revit Home in 2019.1 The “start …
Every single element in your Revit model, and I am talking about instances and types here, has an ID. It’s a way for the Revit database to be able to keep elements organized, find what it needs to find, and act like a good database should act. And also to see if that element is …
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