Revit TotD

I’m starting something new for you guys.  I’ve setup and am in the process of getting all the bugs out of a new IRC server with a chat room for questions and general chat.  If you have an IRC client, you can point it to:
Server: gibsonhh.info
Port: 6669
to gain access.  You will be automagically placed in [...]

Oh my, two new tips in one week!? This may become a new routine! Here’s one for those of you that use worksets a lot. Those of you that have used worksets on a project after recently converting from AutoCAD probably note a similarity in layers and worksets. Right down to loosing track [...]

So yeah, it’s been really busy around here, what with finally getting a new job, moving my family halfway across the country, settling in, making sure the new mom is doing good… well, I could go on with the excuses but the truth is I just missed you guys and gals!  So here I am, [...]

Every  now and again you’ll run across an object that you want to change, but don’t want to have to figure out what nested family it’s using, stop working on the project, find the profile family, open the family, change it, save it, load it into the project, yada, yada, yada… who wants to do [...]

Continuing the topic of floors, I want to talk about a scenario that happens in a lot of projects; especially since this is something that happens in MANY commercial roofs. I speak of the one and only varying thickness in a layer of an assembly. Floors or roofs, this method can be used [...]

So you just finished placing the existing structure of building you are remodeling into revit and start working on the floors… only to ask the question, “Should I really have made this a single floor type?” Well, today’s tip is less of a How-to and more of a How Carl Does It.
Typically, you would [...]

Oh, hello there!  Thought I had completely forgotten about you, didn’t you?  Well, no, not completely.  I had to deal with some personal issues, namely the beginning of my family!  You can all blame it on my new son when he’s old enough to understand what you’re all upset about.  Till then, I’m going to [...]

… well not really… not completely.  It’s been a bit hectic lately, and I’m hoping to get a few posts in before we welcome our first born into the family!  I’ve picked up a few good topics while I was in Tulsa on a consulting gig.  Just gotta get my notes together and we’ll start [...]

Before I even got a chance to get my last StairPorn.Revit entry rendered (so many problems! but I’m also experimenting with render settings ) I’ve completed another entry!  This stair comes to us from the Suppose Design Office in Japan.  The portion of the vertical circulation element that I modeled really emphasizes the [...]

How many times have you wanted the material look that Revit provides, just with a different color?  There’s a good chance that you’ve wanted this at some point before and after digging for the answer, you found that the answer isn’t quite as simple as you’d hoped.  Someone probably told you that you had to [...]