What Revit Wants
Check them both out at:
Revit | Building Design and Construction | Autodesk
Of the items currently revealed, these are the BIG ones (in my opinion):
From Daniel Gijsbers blog:
“if you try to open a revit workshared file (central file) with LT it right away makes a copy of the file with LT added to it’s name.
But what is even more surprising it leaves the central file intact. With that I mean I saved the central file in Revit LT and next I open the same file in it’s bigger brother. Big Revit says right away: Would you like to create a new local? In other words, you are trying to open a central file. Revit LT doesn’t throw away the worksets!
When you have opened the file take a look at the worksharing display
Revit LT has created it’s own workset… called Revit LT user”
Read more about the implications of this:
Daniel on Autodesk AEC software: Revit files and Revit LT
Sometimes you will have some junk imported DWG definitions residing in your project. These may be present due to the long history of the project, perhaps using Transfer Project Standards – View Templates, or just poor RVT model management.
How can you get rid of them?
There are various paid tools that will let you do it, but if you already have access to the Whitefeet Tools, you can use them to easily delete any import definitions (they don’t have to be DWGs) that you no longer want in the model.
Here’s how to do it:
Now, when you go to your VG – Imported Categories list, that particular Import will no longer be present.
Congratulations, your model just got cleaner!
Nice tip + addin coming from Trevor Taylor via Jeremy Tammik – it shows how to rename Interior Elevation views by the Room that they reside in.
Download:
Here is a complete sample project including a test model in case you’d like to check it out yourself.
Many thanks to Trevor for this useful tool, his research, implementation, and generous sharing.
Read more / via:
The Building Coder: Rename View by Matching Elevation Tag with Room
EDIT: Live stream embedded below
Check it out:
Link:
Autodesk Webcast
Heads-up:
March 26, Autodesk to announce…??? facebook.com/autodesk click on webcasts to find out more!
— Scott D Davis (@scottddavis) March 20, 2013
You have to register before you can download… included are families for Heat Pumps, Condensing Units, Controllers and more.
Heads-up:
https://twitter.com/specifinder/status/314313741426626560
Today is the 21 March 2014. Last year, the NDA was lifted on Revit 2013 around 27 March. There have been whispers of Revit 2014 features getting released on the LARUG blog, over at Revit OpEd and a few things happening on Twitter. LARUG even has a little countdown widget to – guess which date – March 27, 2013.
So, I think I’ll just get ahead of the game a bit here…
To find out all the new features of Revit 2014, head over to http://autodesk-revit.blogspot.com.au/ (insert sub page here: [http://autodesk-revit.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/whats-new-in-revit-2014.html] on or around March 27 🙂
Just for reference, this was Dave Light’s post from last year, posted 27 March (it still gets reposted nearly every week to someone’s blog, somewhere in the world):
Revit: What’s new in Autodesk Revit 2013?
A new Revit addin from Dima over at dp stuff can do that – it looks like this:
The tool is pretty straightforward, so I will try to describe just in a few words how it works (the demo video in the beginning of the post shows it as well).
– assuming you already installed the WorksetExplorer, run the tool from dpStuff Utils in Add-on tab.
– the dialog box will open and in the “tree” your elements will be sorted by workset, then by category, then by family, then by type.
– every “branch” will have a name and the amount of elements on it in parentheses.
– once you see something that shouldn’t be on a particular workset then you can select the branch and click “Select Elements” button – that will add elements that belong to this branch to selection.
– now you can send them to the workset they are supposed to be on.
– repeat until all worksets are in good shape.
You can download the WorksetExplorer add-on from our download page or directly from this link.
via
dp Stuff: WorksetExplorer Revit Add In – What’s On Your Worksets?
Click on the little satellite dish, then InfoCenter settings:
Go to RSS Feeds and click Add, then copy and paste the following string:
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=RevitHelp
Done!
While you are at it, why not add What Revit Wants:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatRevitWants
Notes:
Twitter RSS that doesn’t work in Communications Centre:
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=RevitHelp
Read more:
Is there any way to display my tweets via an rss url? | Twitter Developers:
Coming from an AutoCAD background, it comes as second nature to me to draft bounds (boundaries) in AutoCAD. Set your Units to Deg/Min/Sec, set north to 0 degrees and use Clockwise, then start typing and use the @ symbol to start the new line at the current location. Its logical and reliable. In Australia, we generally have all our survey reduced to that form – 0 degrees for North, then Clockwise bearings related to that.
Here is my experience with using Revit Property Lines as they were intended (?) to be used…
First step is to enable the Degrees from N/S setting in your Site Settings:
Then, go to a Plan View and set it to True North. Start the Property Line tool and select Create by Entering Distances and Bearings.
Ok, basically you enter the length, the angle, and choose either N/S and E/W. That’s it. But what settings should you choose?
You always need to reduce your bearing dimension to something between 0 and 90 degrees (the dialog will not accept anything outside of this). You can do this using a formula, like:
Then you use the N/S and E/W switch to mirror or flip the dimension bearing. In some cases, it is easier just to hit OK and see which way it is heading, then switch between the N/S and E/W settings till it looks right. If it still doesn’t work, you may need to orient it inversely against 90 degrees, by doing something like:
Let’s do an example. Here is the Property Line segment we want to make:
We can’t use 261 degrees, so we use a formula to minus 180 from that angle. Then, as my previous line was using S and W, I set those to the new line. It works! Here is what it looks like:
You can see that my line is slightly off the background image – this will be fixed once the whole boundary has been input (it can be moved at that point).
To reduce the above unit entry process into a simple step-by-step:
Good things about Revit Property Lines based on tables:
Bad things:
Interestingly, once you have created your Property Line, you can turn off the NS/EW setting in Site Settings, and when you Edit the Table, it will show all boundaries related to True North:
Further reading:
Property Lines by Distances & Bearings missing N/S and E/W – The Revit Clinic
Revit Architecture 2010 User’s Guide: Creating Property Lines with Survey Data
