Revit TotD

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 far!
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Another short and sweet tip, this one dealing with an easy way to manager your add-ins.  If you are an add-in hog, you may get tired of editing your Revit.ini file every time you load and unload an add-in for Revit.  Well, with this simple little tool, you can have all the work done for [...]

Another simple, quick yet useful tip today!  A while back we mentioned Sketchup in our Topo tip, today I’m going to show you how to assign a material to that topo (or any object really) that you bring in to Revit from Sketchup.

Assigning Materials to Sketchup Imports:

In the Material library (Manage > Materials) look for [...]