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I came across a slightly unusual issue today. I was trying to place a simple Spot Elevation on a Topography surface in a Detail View that originated from a Plan view. But it wouldn’t work!!
However, if you place the Spot Elevation in a normal Floor Plan view, you can then copy and ‘Paste Aligned’ into the Detail View.
The brief video below demonstrates this process:
Architexts is an awesome little comic site. I enjoyed the following page – I think you might too:
Architexts – Learning Revit
My favourite one was:
Revit Errors
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.
