What Revit Wants
While editing an In-place family (Sweep) inside a Design Option, I tried to unpin a sketch line using the Pin icon on the screen. I received this error:
Element must be in Main Model
To get around it, I just selected the sketch line and use the keys UP (or any keyboard shortcut for Unpin).
One of those annoying little problems … hope the tip helps you.
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Ostensibly, they start along the lines of “my firm is implementing new systems, what software should we choose…” Then, very quickly they become a mud-flinging game of mirrors, misdirected passion and other more general angst (Why does Program X hate me?) They are littered with sarcasm, attempted yet misunderstood humour, and a few genuine users who take the time to relate their personal experience.
A great example is this ArchiCAD vs Revit discussion. Please note that it is in the ArchiCAD group (meaning your submissions may be moderated by a pro-ArchiCAD discussion manager).
Another similar discussion:
http://lnkd.in/VtP6GX
Blogger:
For example, I wanted a feed for AIA East Bay that only included posts with the label ‘Revit’. Here is what the split feed looks like:
http://www.aiaeastbay.blogspot.com.au/feeds/posts/default/-/Revit
Easy way to do it:
To convert that search label into a Blogger RSS feed, replace the string /search/label/ with /feeds/posts/default/-/ so the new feed URL for that search label has the following syntax:
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Offer RSS Feeds for Blogger Search Labels Similar to WordPress Category Feeds
Another example – all of the What Revit Wants posts that include the label ‘pdf’ can be found as a feed at:
https://wrw.is/feeds/posts/default/-/pdf
Also see:
http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97933
Create a WordPress feed for a particular label:
It is even easier. To subscribe to a particular category feed of a WordPress blog, all you have to do is add /feed after the category url (link).
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RevitPythonShell has some competition! Its called RevitRubyShell.
RevitRubyShell on Github – installer
What is Ruby? Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features…Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms, including functional, object oriented, imperative and reflective.
Thanks to Håkon Clausen, Ruby is now friends with Revit.
Quote from The Building Coder:
Last week, I provided a short description of the interactive real-time Revit programming environment RevitRubyShell provided by Håkon Clausen and mentioned how impressed I was by its minimalistic single-click installer.
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The Building Coder: RevitRubyShell Implementation and Installer
I hoard information. And I like Revit.
How do I keep up with the Revit world?
I have a couple of Twitter searches set up, including #revit. This gets forwarded by RSS into my huge Revit blog reading list, shared at this link. Then, I get this reading list sent by email to a portable Thunderbird profile. Finally, I have setup an auto-pdf creation process, which turns all of those blogs and tweets into daily PDFs. I have basically created an archive of pretty much every Revit blog post over the past few years.
Currently, my RSS folder has 5795 files and is over 2.6 GB
My Revit Training folder on the NAS at our office is well over 54 GB – I use various tools to download Youtube, Autodesk and Vimeo videos so that I have an offline copy.
There is one slight problem – there is sometimes simply too much information to take in. I have had a couple of weeks off, so now my Revit blog ‘unread’ list is over 1000 posts 🙁
Time to do some skimming … once you get Google Reader going at a nice quick scrolling pace, you can get through a lot of information quickly 😉
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AutodeskEd uploaded a bunch of Vasari Workshop videos late last week. I have put them all in a playlist and embedded it for you below. The playlist is just over 2 hours long:
I haven’t really played with this, but theoretically you could:
When importing a sketchup document, by default it will attempt to import the file as if it were an architectural design document, it will try to determine which objects are floors, roofs and walls.
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Vectorworks KnowledgeBase :: 3rd Party File Formats – Google SketchUp
There are quite a few renumbering add-ins available for Revit. This free little package from CTC includes a tool to renumber both Rooms and Doors…
Room and Door Renumber for Revit 2013 – CTC
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Revittize
Sequence numbering on doors numbers doors independently. The tool remembers the previous door’s number and will maintain the proper sequence on subsequent doors.
More info:
Revit Renumbering Video Tutorial – 2:00 Revit Renumbering Product Information
Revit Renumbering available on Autodesk Exchange:
http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/2013/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3arevitrenumbering%3aen
You can also get Imaginit Room Renumber on Exchange at:
Autodesk Exchange Apps
I recently posted a method of twisting Keynote Legends around to do exactly what you want. However, maybe using Note Blocks with numbered notes would better suit your documentation process?
Read more at:
Using Note Blocks for Numbered Notes – WikiHelp
Also check out my 2009 post:
What Revit Wants: Note Blocks – What are they??
