Category Revit
The Mess of Setting Out Plans
Setting out plans are always a pain to get to look good, the more complicated the design, the more of a mess they look. Below is a good example of what I am given as a setting out plan, now some do place all the points outside of the visible view, but then it becomes […]
Use BIM360 to isolates elements in the model that have changed
I always get asked how to speed up the process of checking model elements that have changed. BIM360 has a great feature of version comparison, this will give you a list of all the elements that have been Added, Removed or Modified. Once you have done this you can export to Excel all of the […]
AutoCAD Custom Hatches Using Excel, Import to Revit Plus Dynamo
This is a question that always comes up within landscape teams, sometimes you have to show exact sizing for paving hatches. I have an Excel document I have used for years to create paving, please see attached: tile-hatch-creator-blog It is really easy to use and also has its own instructions in the file. When you […]
Landscape Model Development
One of the challenges when moving to a BIM tool like Revit is concept of the model developing throughout the process and the graphical changes that will be made and not relying on solely 2D detailing. Whilst assisting a CAD technician who was transitioning to Revit, who was struggling to understand this development and how he would […]
Revit Shared Coordinates Process
I always see people having issues with this, I am in the process of creating a document on setting up shared coordinates on different sizes of projects. I have this process diagram I use to explain how it should be done. Please leave comment if you think it could be improved or any suggestions. […]
How to create custom regions in Revit using Hatch22
Hatch22 is a plugin I was introduced to no so long ago, before this I was editing .pat files from AutoCAD. I find this plugin really useful the only drawback being it is only free for Revit v2014 and they have not finished a version for 2016 yet. I am going to take you through some quick steps […]
List of 20 Do’s & Don’ts in Revit
This is a list I share when I am doing training, please let me know if you have any other’s you think need adding and we can make it 100 Do’s & Don’ts (DO). LAUNCH REVIT AND BROWSE FILE ON SERVER DON’T). DOUBLE CLICK ON THE FILE ON SERVER (DO). CREATE LOCAL FILE FROM CENTRAL […]
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