Revit Tip of the Day – by Carl Gibson
Archive for year 2009
Revit TotD – 10.19.09 | Working with Profiles in Project
Oct 19th
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…
Revit TotD – 10.16.09 | Varying Thickness Floor Layers
Oct 16th
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 with either…
Revit TotD – 10.15.09 | Pancake Floors
Oct 15th
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…
Revit TotD – 10.12.09: Revit’s “Center” Command
Oct 12th
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…
I’m BAAaaaack….
Sep 9th
… 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…
StairPorn.Revit – 7.5.09: Terrace Stairs by Suppose Design Office
Aug 5th
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 whole idea…
Revit TotD – 7.5.09: Let that Bump do the Work
Aug 5th
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…
Revit TotD – 8.4.09: +++ [RAWR I'M THE REF PLANE] —
Aug 4th
If you don’t get the title of the tip, that’s OK. It’s easier just to say that it’s hard to explain if you don’t already understand, but at the same time it’s not necessarily a bad thing if you don’t. Either way, I’m guessing that there’s a little tip that you didn’t know. The one…
StairPorn.Revit – 7.31.09: Floating Stairs by Ong&Ong
Jul 31st
This stair by Ong & Ong in the Blair Road Residence is the one that really caught my eye when I first visited StairPorn.org, so naturally I had to attempt it early in the series. It was quite a challenge! The treads and risers were quite simple, but the supports didn’t work quite the way…
Revit TotD – 7.31.09: Legend Tagging
Jul 31st
======================= This is a tip that was written specifically for AECBytes.com’s Tips and Tricks newsletter which is a monthly publication from http://www.aecbytes.com/. The Article is also available to view at: http://www.aecbytes.com/tipsandtricks/2009/issue44-revit.html. Thanks to AECBytes.com for the opportunity to write for this publication, and thanks to all my readers for making this such a succes thus…
