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BIM Management
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Managing View Templates with Revit links that are set to “By Linked View” per level
One of the biggest challenges of dealing with large Revit models is working with outside consultants’ linked Revit models. You may need to use a linked view to easily match said consultant’s floor plan views. In that case, you should use the By Linked View V/G setting of your RVT Link. The problem you will face…
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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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Using Navisworks SwitchBack for fixing clashes in Revit
We are really excited to try out Navisworks SwitchBack. This add-in will allow you to select an element in Navisworks and switch to Revit to fix the clash. It appears as though we will finally have full Interoperability between Navisworks and Revit. Rest assured that we will write a full review of the workflow once we’ve had…
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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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Revit Macro – List electrical panel schedules and the sheets that they are placed on
We found a quick-and-dirty way to show what sheets your electrical panel schedules are on. Essentially, it is a schedule of schedules. We haven’t found any other way to accomplish this as of yet and we welcome any improvements to this code. What this does is simply create a dialog box with all of your…
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ArchSmarter Toolbox – Free Macros for Revit to Maximize Efficiency
We recently stumbled onto a set of Revit macros that may be of use to all Revit users regardless of skill level. The good folks at ArchSmarter have a toolbox of Revit macros that maximize efficiency on mundane tasks such as duplicating views, aligning views on sheets, and batch linking Revit models. The best…
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Overlapping Grid Bubbles in Revit and How to Fix Them Globally Across Multiple Views
How do you deal with overlapping grid bubbles? Whether you use “elbows” on your gridlines or offset your bubbles, you should never have to go to each view individually and manually change them. Revit has the ability to apply the visual adjustments to your gridlines across multiple views using “Propagate Extents”. It seems as though this…
