What Revit Wants
I came across the Revit Zone blog today. It has some good information on a range of topics, and there have been plenty of posts already this year.
View range is something that is often not understood properly. Have a look at this post: View Range explained
Interesting post from Revit in Motion: Select all Instances.
Basically, I didn’t know that ‘Select All Instances – Entire Project’ will actually look inside Design Options!
In this case, What Revit Wants is for you to use Schedules to determine the correct counts for objects when using Design Options.
Note: Autodesk Fixed Link
Using the RSS feed from Autodesk Support, a new item has come up: Dimension problem when exporting Revit to DWG
Searching Google led me to this Revitcity forum thread http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=22996
Here is a good guide on how to install the Google Earth Extension in AutoCAD.
There is a workflow which allows the topography from Google to be placed into Revit. You could try:
AutoCAD with Google Earth Extension – Export DWG – Import/Link into Revit
OR
Sketchup – Save SKP – Import/Link into Revit
Installing the Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD-based products – It is Alive in the Lab
Updating AutoCAD and Revit can be difficult for a few reasons. If you are not on subscription, there can be tension between the users and the purchasers of the software – when do we outlay $$$ to do the upgrade?
In that situation, there is often lengthy discussion related to the cost vs benefits of any particular upgrade.
After that discussion is resolved, the next question is – can our current hardware run this new software?
The following comic from Architexts draws on these themes…
http://architexts.us/2011/01/14/updating-autocad/
There is a plethora of information available on the internet for Revit users and Revit instructors. However, sometimes you really just want to have training data stored locally.
To save web pages and videos from the Internet, I use Firefox with UnMHT, DownloadHelper and DownThemAll!
Rather than read about how to use all these tools, check out the video below:
PS – Please note that there may be copyright applicable to the use of some data.
You learn something new every day – and today I was schooled by this Revit Clinic post – 3 Levels of Masking.
If you have just installed a fresh version of Revit, you may have noticed that you have lost your Custom Colors. There are 16 ‘slots’ available for Custom Colors in the Revit Color Palette.
To transfer the colors from one installation to another, just copy the [Colors] subsection from the Revit.ini file from the old installation location to the new one. For example, if you previously had Revit installed on drive Y: in Vista, and you now have a new installation on drive C: with a new OS, do this:
Here is some other information about the [Colors] section –
The first three entries in the [Colors] section defines the user interface colors from the Options dialog, Graphics tab:
A default installation will look something like this under [Colors]:
HiliteColor=16741179
PreHiliteColor=8729206
ErrorColor=33023
CustomColor1=e2e2e2
CustomColor2=0000ff
CustomColor3=00ffff
CustomColor4=00ff00
CustomColor5=ffff00
CustomColor6=ff0000
CustomColor7=ff00ff
CustomColor8=ffffff
CustomColor9=ffffff
CustomColor10=ffffff
CustomColor11=ffffff
CustomColor12=ffffff
CustomColor13=ffffff
CustomColor14=ffffff
CustomColor15=ffffff
CustomColor16=ffffff
It seems the AUGI forum data situation is still up in the air – will all that user generated content ever become available again?
In the meantime *some* of the AUGI data can be accessed using the Google Cache. For instance, if you want to find the Google Cache of an old AUGI page:
This won’t last forever…
