What Revit Wants
Let’s say you have imported an image of an existing floor plan into a Revit view, but it doesn’t quite look right. When you scale the image, it appears to be warped in either the ‘X’ or ‘Y’ direction.
What do you see in the ‘Options’ bar? Untick the box ‘Lock Proportions’ and you can correct the warped image by resizing with the blue grips!
While you’re at it, if you want the ‘Options’ bar to appear at the bottom of your screen, right click on the ‘Options’ bar and select ‘Dock at Bottom’.
Have you ever had to pick up someone else’s project and try to figure out how it all goes together? Or maybe you were trying to delete a level, and Revit just went ahead and deleted all associated elements without telling you?
I found a great tool on the AUGI Forums that actually reports all the elements on a particular level! You can download it at http://forums.augi.com/showpost.php?p=864748&postcount=22 (you need to login to the forums obviously).
To help you install it, check out http://forums.augi.com/showpost.php?p=921396&postcount=36.
I have installed and used it with 2010 and it seems to work fine. Thanks to sfaust!
If you are struggling to get through the day, check this video out. It made me smile.
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I find it quite funny that one of the ‘solutions’ to this problem is…don’t lock your computer (“you can prevent this behavior by not locking the computer when printing or exporting”). Thanks a lot! Revit is now telling us what we can and can’t do people! (Or, more correctly, the Revit support staff are telling us.)
This shows that you must give Revit What Revit Wants – or it will make your computer unresponsive!
Issue
You print or export your project in Revit and lock the computer during the progress to find Revit is unresponsive when later unlocked.
You may be unfortunate enough to have to translate a BIM model from ArchiCAD into Revit. I have done this in the past (with limited success) using IFC.
However, I was browsing the AUGI Forums today and came across this post, which recommended the use of Solibri IFC Optimizer. This is a free Java utility that launches from your browser (you do need to register first). You then feed your IFC file into it, and it, well, optimizes the file.
I gave it a go and it reduced an IFC I recently worked on from 21.6 mb to 13.7 mb – so it actually does work.
Check it out if you are using IFC…
No doubt there are a few utilities that you just can’t do without. Here are a few of my absolute favourites:
That was just a shortlist. I may post some more in future. In the meantime, what are your favourite utilities? Feel free to comment and share them with all of us…
I work at Dimond Architects on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.
Our practice was recently featured in ‘Belle’ magazine.
Check it out on our company blog at http://www.dimondarchitects.com/2009/08/belle-magazine-publication.htmlOur company website is http://www.dimondarchitects.com/ – have a look at our Project Gallery.
Check out the new Maintenance Update for AutoCAD 2010 at http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=13760520&linkID=9240618
Apparently,
Autodesk has recently released a maintenance update for your product. Errors similar to those you have encountered have been resolved and are part of this update. We recommend that you install this maintenance update to update your product, or contact your system administrator.
Well, I hope this fixes some of our issues with AutoCAD 2010!
Download AutoCAD (R) 2010 Product Update 1 26.215 MB
64 bit version
Readme (Learn more…)
This has been reposted from http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=13778933&linkID=9273944&CMP=OTC-RSSSUP01
Published date: 2009-Aug-21 ID: DL13778933
Applies to:
Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2010
Autodesk® Revit® MEP 2010
Autodesk® Revit® Structure 2010
revit_2010_wallmodification_hotfix_x32.zip (zip – 7584Kb)
revit_2010_wallmodification_hotfix_x64.zip (zip – 10224Kb)
revit_2010_hotfix_wall_modifcations_readme.htm (htm – 58Kb)
This hotfix addresses issues related to deleting or modifying walls, a crash may occur.
Make sure to download the correct patch for your operating system (32 or 64 bit).
The Readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and use of this update. It is strongly recommended that you read the entire document before you apply the update to your product. For your reference, you should save the Readme to your hard drive or print a copy.
