Revit TotD

So, you made a woozy on your central (and local) workset file.  You were OK, until you found that there are no magic backup number files in the folder with your .rvt file like there were with your non workset files.  Now your heart has sunk, and well, lets face it: you probably aren’t here [...]

haHA!  So this is what it feels like to not be sick.  Well, that’s not my excuse for last week, but I can’t really show you why we had no TotDs last week… or rather can’t show you.  Yet.  Needless to say, I had a good reason.  Hopefully I’ll be able to make up for [...]

If had a nickel for every time someone asked me why Revit can’t render lights in the proper place on a tiles ceiling, I’d… well I’d be sitting back and writing these instead of writing these between work hours.
Now, if I had a nickel for every time the person that asked me that told me [...]

With the environmentalists on the rise again, it’s more important than ever for us architects to try to save as many resources as possible.  We all know how much of a paper hog an average size architecture firm is, much less the large ones!  Here is a process that I push in all offices that [...]

Gonna finish up the week with a very easy tip, yet very powerful for those complicated designs that use all those mathematical formulas and what not…
Hopefully, by this point, you know that you can simply enter a length to determine a wall or line length, or really anywhere you can input a dimension.  Simply type [...]

I’m slowly but surely trying to recover from moving and settling into a new job.  I’m having to force myself to sit down and make time for RevitTotD, but I’m glad I do it every time that I do!  This week, I’m going to have 3 tips… that’s all there is to it!  Baby steps, [...]

The last project I worked on in a real office was a real piece of work.  With about 12 people in total working on the model at any given time, the model no doubt had some issues between everyone having their way with the model.  One of the issues that occurred DAILY was with wall [...]

Yeah, I know you’ve been there.  Your boss asked you to make the elevations on a certain sheet show the actual elevation above sea level.  You tried to move all the levels up 600′ and EVERYTHING B0RKED!!!  If you haven’t been there you will eventually, well maybe not if you read this because you’ll know [...]

OK, so those of you that are here that really know your stuff may start thinking that this isn’t really advanced.  You’re right, but looking back, we started with navigating a freaking curtain wall… this is pretty advanced for those people that are just delving into Revit’s curtain walls; and you guys are doing great [...]

OK, so by now, if you’re an architect, you’re probably saying “Will you please stop calling it a curtain wall?!?”  No, I will not.  Not because I don’t know that it’s not technically a curtain wall, but because unfortunately curtain wall is what Autodesk decided to call it.  So just know, when I say curtain [...]