Revit Tip of the Day – by Carl Gibson
Posts tagged Revit
Revit TotD – 3.25.09: What did I have selected?
Mar 25th
Today’s TotD is the epitome of TotD.¬† Short, sweet and everything a tip should be: not a full lesson! Ever accidentally lost your selection because your coworker destracted you or your boss’ cat sat on your keyboard while you were trying to select all those little detail lines?¬† Well, there is an easy way to…
Revit TotD – 3.23.09: Cataloguing your Families
Mar 23rd
Hope everyone had a good weekend!¬† I’m back with a quick tip on helping you manage those family files. Ever notice how some of the families that come out of the box with revit have multiple options to select from before you load the family in?¬† For instance the Structural Column families give you a…
Revit TotD – 3.20.09 | Important File Locations
Mar 20th
So today’s is going to be a simple one.¬† Weekend is coming up and I have a lot of studio work to do plus an abstract for my term paper (*gleee*).¬† So here I hope to point out some important file locations for you to play with (at your own risk).¬† Some of these are…
Revit TotD – 3.18.09 : Temporary Witness Line Toggle
Mar 17th
So this one is a short one but a hidden gem as no one seems to teach this in training and most people don’t find it until they accidentally click the little blue square grip on the temporary dimensions witness lines.¬† You can toggle between center of wall and face of core/finish (depending on how…
Revit TotD – 3.17.09 | Visibility Control with Yes/No Parameters
Mar 17th
Another TotD courtesy of the RevitCity chatroom. This one is something I hear asked a lot almost anywhere I go. It delves into the family editor, which if the sound of that scares you, it’s just how us reviteers say “Open a family file (.rfa) with revit.” The goal of this tip is to show…
Revit TotD – 3.16.09 | Visibility Control, Filters and You!
Mar 17th
This one come courtesy of Steel2Steel on RevitCity.com chat room.¬† It relates to his post here.¬† He was wanting to make his revit model look like a CAD drawing.¬† This blunder aside, I decided this wul dbe a nice little tip for my TotD readers.¬† Enjoy! Filters are your friend.¬† When it comes to Visibility…
Revit TotD – 3.14.09 (Render Exposure)
Mar 15th
Yeah, so my tip of the day turned into a tip of the week.¬† So sue me for false advertising (please don’t, I have enough problems as it is and very little for you to win in an actual lawsuit).¬† It just so happened that I decided to start tip of the day, 2 days…
Revit TotD – 3.4.09 | Wall Multi Tip
Mar 5th
While watching Will Harris’ Rockstar Hour today, I recalled how many people I’ve come across that did not know how walls worked in Revit.¬† While the TotD is not designed to be a full blown lesson, I have prepared a couple tips for placing walls. 1) Making a box of walls in a clockwise motion…
Revit tip of the Day (TotD) – 03.03.09
Mar 4th
Revit TotD – Material Physical Properties. This issue was brought to my attention by a fellow RevitCity.com chatter.¬† He noted that when trying to change the properties on the physical properties tab of a material, everything goes back to default when you try to save the parameter subset.¬† After playing with it a bit, I…
Double Standards
Oct 31st
I’ve run across a lot of nasty and usually false remarks about the abilities and downfalls of Revit and those of us that use Revit. Usually these remarks are made by AutoCAD diehards that can’t, or don’t want to, understand how to use Revit. What gets me is how they hold such a high level…
