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[Solved] Error When Attempting to Rotating Multiple Connected Elements in Revit
There are times when you may have attempted to rotate multiple connected objects and receive an error: “Can’t rotate element into this position.” At this point, beginners and seasoned Revit users both might decide that the only option is to model the elements again. Lucky for you, there is a workaround. Multiple Pipes, Fittings, and Pipe…
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A quick fix for gridline bubbles that do not copy/monitor on the same ends of the gridlines
Occasionally, you may copy/monitor gridlines from a linked model only to realize that the grid bubbles are all over the place. Some are at the top, some are at the bottom, some are on the left and some are on the right. This can be frustrating to correct if you have several views in a…
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Best Practices: Managing Sheet Lists in Revit
The task of managing drawing lists has typically been a daunting one; Particularly on large projects. With the dawn of Revit adoption, we now have some options to make document control a little easier. Avoid Two Sets of Data When Possible You’ve heard this one a hundred times when using schedules on your drawings. If…
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Collaboration for Revit (C4R) and A360: Your Revit Model in the Cloud
Update: At some point after this article was published Autodesk has rebranded A360 – it is now called BIM 360. Autodesk has launched a collaborative platform in which users have the ability to host their Revit central models on the A360 cloud. This method attempts to solve the limitation of multiple users in different physical…
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Exporting an AutoCAD MEP model as an IFC and then linking it into Revit
In the BIM world, there are several platforms and file types. AutoCAD has many flavors most of which are discipline specific and are used in fabrication processes. Just like any software, cross-compatibility between platforms is finicky at best. The big disconnect happens when a design engineer hands off their model to a contractor to complete…
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Using a filter to show a future phase in Revit
If you are at all familiar with Revit’s phasing capabilities, you have undoubtedly run into an issue with showing future phasing. Revit currently does not allow you to do so. As of Revit 2016, future phases simply do not appear in your views and there is no way to show a future phase. Fortunately, we…
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We should all be using Revit’s worksets for efficient worksharing, not visibility / graphic overrides.
More and more I’ve had debates regarding worksets being used for visibility. My stance is to avoid using worksets to control visibility and graphic overrides – save this task for filters. Using worksets for visibility graphic overrides will completely strip your ability to use works sets the Revit way, which is to efficiently share work. This…
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Inconsistent Units in Revit Schedule
At some point in your career you may need to use a Calculated Value in a schedule. In doing so, you will most likely receive an inconsistent unit error if the units in the formula do not match. For example, I wanted to get a total cost for vinyl flooring using only Revit. This means my…
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Copy a Legend to Multiple Sheets in Revit
The good folks over at Boost Your BIM have posted a macro for copying a legend to multiple sheets. It works really well, but I wonder if anyone would like to take on the challenge of doing something similar in Dynamo. public void legendOnSheets() { Document doc = this.ActiveUIDocument.Document; // create list of element ids for…
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How to get a nested list item by index in Dynamo (the easy way).
I found a super simple way to get a nested list item at index using Design Script using a single node. The Code Block in the example: x[0][33][1]; Where: x = Input for your list [0] = Parent List [33] = The nested list item #1 within Parent [1] = The…
