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Revit TotD – 4.5.2010 | More Shortcuts!

rkitect — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:01:20 +0000

So a while back I gave you a list of shortcuts that I find useful on a daily basis. Well, now that this project I’m working on is going in to CD phase and a lot of people are starting to detail, I thought it would be good to share a list of detailing shortcuts that [...]

Revit TotD – 2.22.10 | Save the trees, use DWF Markups!

rkitect — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:01:25 +0000

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 I [...]

Revit TotD – 2.19.10 | Dimension Formulas

rkitect — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:01:43 +0000

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 100′ [...]

Revit TotD – 2.17.10 | Through the Linking Glass, part2

rkitect — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:01:00 +0000

What’s this? I’m keeping my word? Two tips in one week?! Well, don’t let it fool you. I cheated. I wrote these 2 days ago So let us continue on and wrap up this little lesson on linked model visibility.

First I want to thank my Buddy Gerry Hogsed for letting me use his house [...]

Revit TotD – 2.15.10 | Through the Linking Glass, part1

rkitect — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:01:13 +0000

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, baby [...]

Revit TotD – 1.25.10 | Profile Origins and Wall Openings

rkitect — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:52:26 +0000

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, finally [...]

Revit TotD – 10.19.09 | Working with Profiles in Project

rkitect — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:36 +0000

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 that? [...]

Revit TotD – 10.16.09 | Varying Thickness Floor Layers

rkitect — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:00:16 +0000

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 [...]

Revit TotD – 10.15.09 | Pancake Floors

rkitect — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:31:11 +0000

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 simply [...]

Revit TotD – 10.12.09: Revit’s “Center” Command

rkitect — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:00:10 +0000

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 ease [...]