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.
Sometimes you may have to deal with a very long list of Line Styles in Revit. Unfortunately, there is no ‘Recently Used’ list in Line Styles! The keyboard can be used to scroll in the Line Style selector by pressing the first character of the Line Style name. However, to select , you have to:
If you actually want to do it completely on the keyboard:
In case you haven’t realised yet – pressing Alt once reveals a level of keyboard shortcuts, then after you type one of those options – another level is revealed. It appears that some of these are not actually accessible using the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog…
In 5 keystrokes or less, can you reload your current Keynotes file? Yes, you can. Here’s how:
Open Keyboard Shortcuts, and assign a Shortcut to Additional Settings:Keynoting Settings, such as KT.
Now, to reload your Keynotes:
K – T – Alt+e – Enter
Good post over at Andekan on Revit Materials in 2013 – I have reposted three things I found particularly insightful below.
First of all – a slight correction. The Andekan post states that:
You can’t open the asset browser unless you open a project material in the material editor.
This is actually not true. You can open the Asset Editor and the Asset Browser without opening Materials. Just set a Keyboard Shortcut to Additional Settings:Material Assets. This will open the Asset Editor. Then click the ‘lines’ icon to open the Asset Browser. Its kinda messed up, but you can do it.
Now, on to some good stuff from the post:
Entire Materials can live in .adsklib files:
you can take a whole material from inside your project (called “In Document” materials), including all of its different property sets (now called “Assets”), and add it to any number of external libraries that you create. You can also add materials from one library to another. Libraries that you create are stored as standalone .adsklib files, just like the “materials” libraries (read “appearance properties”) of prior versions, so they can be ported and shared between installations with ease.
.adsklibs can contain Assets AND Materials
Libraries
These are groups of materials and/or assets that exist outside of any particular project or family. They are saved as standalone .adsklib files, and it’s important to note that a single library can contain both materials and assets. This makes perfect sense: if materials are made up of different assets, then a “materials” library must somehow contain appearance, physical, and thermal assets as well.
How to update and maintain .adsklib Libraries
5. You can only edit materials and assets that are inside of a project. In a library, you are limited to viewing the names of materials and assets, and to performing basic functions like Rename or Delete. If you want to edit a material or asset that’s in one of your libraries, you have to: 1) bring it into a project, 2) make your edits, then 3) add it back into the library to overwrite the original version, and finally 4) remove the copy that’s inside the project (if you don’t want it there).
Read more / via
Andekan � Blog
… and assign a keyboard shortcut to ‘Modify’ that is close to your keyboard hand –
Revit 2012 now supports three character shortcut entries…
Tip via
Autodesk Explorer: Updated Revit 2012 Keyboard Shortcut List:
You may also be interested in some of my previous posts regarding keyboard shortcuts:
Type ‘RO’ for rotate, tap the spacebar and you are in 3-click rotate.
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A shortcut for 3-point rotate was defined ‘R3’. Select an element and type R3 and you are in 3-click rotate.
Tips via
Inside the Factory: Rotate 2012:
| Image from ‘Inside the Factory’ |
You can multi-assign a shortcut key to the ‘Pick Lines’ subcommand – see image below:
I’m sure you can see the benefit in doing this?
Great idea!
More Shortcut Key Magic
Windows XP
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From Autodesk Revit Architecture Services & Support
NOTE – this file only appears AFTER modifying the keyboard shortcuts!
