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 …
The Most Overlooked Revit Tools – Displace ElementsRead More »
Bluebeam Revu 2018 is here and with it, comes a new look and interface. With a focus on workflow, ease of use, customization, and tool setup, the new interface has introduced a lot of changes. A major change with Bluebeam Revu 2018 (other than the interface) is its ability to add Keyboard Shortcuts! The ability …
While lot number, area, and frontage reign supreme when it comes to parcel design, those bits of data rarely tell the whole story we need to tell. Perhaps you’re working on a multi-use community and need to document the land use classification of each parcel. You could resort to a workaround like using standard AutoCAD …
Leveraging User-Defined Properties for Civil 3D Parcel DesignRead More »
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 …
The Most Overlooked Revit Tools – Match Type PropertiesRead More »
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 …
Dynamo 2.0 has been out for about 4 months now. Because this was such a major revision to the software, we wanted to allow some time prior to writing a post on what to expect. Dynamo 2.0.0 Dynamo 2.0.0 was released on April 16, 2018, to much excitement. Okay, maybe just excitement to those of …
Dynamo 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 – What’s New and What’s DifferentRead More »
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 …
Introduction If you are using an AutoCAD-based product that is 2017 or later, you may have noticed that in your handy “Drawing Units” dialog, in the drop-down under “Insertion Scale,” you now have two options for working in feet. They are “Feet,” and “US Survey Feet.” It may be a big surprise to many people …
US Survey Feet vs. Feet in AutoCAD – What’s going on?Read More »
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 …