Revit OpEd

MAY 11, 2016

Which reminded me about how I like to use them for a slide deck inside Revit. Here's the post: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Years ago I wrote about using Revit to help me coach my son's soccer team.

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CAD Shack

MAY 17, 2013

No matter how fast our machines get, I have yet to have someone say "Revit is too fast"! Well if you are looking for a lot of little ways to speed up Revit, here is a list of things to try. Purge the crap out of all your linked Revit files. Compact your Revit files once a week. Restart Revit every 4 hours.

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 15, 2021

A full explode will recreate all the DWG elements into native Revit elements (assuming it is possible) but a partial explode will produce some native elements and some new DWG elements (blocks). Reducing all DWG elements to equivalent elements in Revit is fraught with peril. Back to Revit and exploded DWG elements.

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BIM & Beam

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Our friends over in Autodesk Consulting have been busy helping the Corps create Revit Platform Templates to help increase adoption and improve delivery quality and consistency. The USACE and Autodesk collaborated to create a BIM Template Team consisting of seasoned CAD/BIM Managers with a working knowledge of Revit. The Payoff.

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Revit OpEd

MAY 9, 2012

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Should I Use Revit for this Project? A recent one I heard was, "The architect isnt using Revit, should we use Revit MEP for this project?". Is this our first project using Revit? -

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Revit OpEd

JUNE 14, 2012

Revit OpEd. Welcome to Steve Staffords Blog ~ Revit OpEd = OPinion EDitorial ~ My view of things Revit, both real and imagined. Importing survey files has always been problematic with Revit. Geometry that is far apart will annoy Revit, geometry more than 20 miles in extents is the current "line in the sand".

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 21, 2017

I see Revit behaving this way, they regard the first point as ineligible to being tangent because it depends on the bearing of the line, With that assumption or bias, the first point is necessary to make a tangent condition possible. This is same information but for the Revit drafting view exported to DWG. It could be easier.

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Do

DECEMBER 8, 2010

dont think: Do Revit. My journal of work in Revit as part of a 600+ member architecture firm. Familiar questions when working with Revit, right? Revit provides no good way to mark, or locate cameras, renderings or photos, right? Labels: 3D Cameras , Elevations , Families , Revit 2011. Revit Beginners.

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Many of Revit m E p families use a nested annotation symbol to provide the standard graphics we are used to seeing in electrical documentation. As such I understand that this view type is intended as the last stop or end of the road with regard to drafting up a detail, for detailing not modeling with.

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 14, 2016

With little fanfare Revit 2017 is here, brandishing a slightly changed big R logo. In past years I've proposed a What's New in Revit session for RTC Australasia. As a part of the crew for the Revit Technology Conference ( RTC Events ) I also see class proposals for a great many people who really want to say what's on their mind.

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Revit OpEd

MAY 15, 2017

I then used Insert from File > Insert Views from File to acquire a few drafting views. When I closed this new project and decided to open the file the harvested drafting views are stored in this message appeared. I had to exit Revit so it could relinquish its hold on the file before I could start Revit up again to get back to work.

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 26, 2016

I created a drafting view and placed a single text element. I type a simple sentence and then clicked the new Close button on the ribbon. I received this nonsensical warning for my effort. Doesn't seem to matter what view I am placing text in, clicking the Close button pops up the warning. I'm curious if others are seeing this too?

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Revit OpEd

MAY 1, 2016

Regardless it wouldn't hurt to have a Drafting View set aside with the text versions of all the formulas we use stored there. Since these can be used in schedules and tags, and it has to be done separately for each use, it probably makes sense to document all of the formulas we use so they are easily harvested for another project.

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Revit OpEd

AUGUST 16, 2018

Being able to browse through projects on Revit Server would be boss too. That's the only operation Revit permits us to alter a linked file; alter and save changes to a file we don't have open in the active session. I have some reservations about Revit Server too. As for why this happens.in

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 7, 2017

The new Sustainable Projects Exhibit is a potential game changer that could revitalize the now sluggish if not moribund domestic green building industrial complex, that suffers from the lack of regular involvement of the legal profession, and as I recently wrote the resultant, Less than 20% of Green Building Contracts Properly Drafted.

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Do

MARCH 24, 2011

dont think: Do Revit. My journal of work in Revit as part of a 600+ member architecture firm. When youre drawing Drafting Lines, you can change the type of curve youre drawing, ie straight, arc, tangent arc, etc, but you cant change the style youre using, ie Wide Lines, Thin Lines, etc. Labels: Drafting , Views.

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CivilJungle

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This software can help in drafting & documenting, designing, visualizing & analyzing & so on. Software Required for Drafting or Drawing. Revit Structure. Software Required for Drafting or Drawing: The types of Software Required for Drafting or Drawing are as follows. #1a. Revit Structure-.

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Revit OpEd

AUGUST 12, 2011

Might seem a little picky but you can't put an empty drafting view on a sheet. If you had the idea that you could block out a few sheets with placeholder drafting views in your template, sorry.not if they are empty. A little text, or a drafting line, a symbol and it won't be empty though so you can fix it and get nearly what you want!

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Do

JULY 26, 2011

dont think: Do Revit. My journal of work in Revit as part of a 600+ member architecture firm. What was coming after Revit? Sure Revit is fun and exciting, but its just a tool, and there is always another coming. So if "Revits" replacement does not really interest me (because I dont think there really will be one perse).

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Do

JUNE 3, 2010

dont think: Do Revit. My journal of work in Revit as part of a 600+ member architecture firm. I have to say they are an odd mix of Revit objects and attributes. Labels: Guide Grids , new features , Revit 2011 , Sheets. Revit Beginners. Revit Family Man. Revit Inside (list of Revit firms).

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 21, 2011

With 2012 we can now map Revit fonts to fonts in AutoCAD. Here's a drafting view of four Arial font sizes: 1", 1/2", 1/4" and 3/32" (using view scale of 1:1). Here's how it looks going from Arial to Arial (Revit 2012 - AutoCAD 2012). It's possible the fonts are "off" in Revit to begin with, just can't say for sure.

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BD+C

AUGUST 20, 2013

Los Angeles city officials have voted to revitalize a notorious Watts housing project with shops, town homes, and green spaces. The City Council voted unanimously to approve a series of land use and planning laws that took four years to draft.

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 29, 2015

Insert from File allows us to import views from another project, views like schedules, drafting views or even sheets that contain either. It would be handy if it we less biased, enough to include RTE (Revit templates) too. It is biased toward RVT files though. Since we probably have standard stuff set up there anyway.

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Do

OCTOBER 20, 2009

dont think: Do Revit. My journal of work in Revit as part of a 600+ member architecture firm. Coming in a few days for all Revit products: Shortcuts for draw commands. Convert lines (model/drafting). Labels: blogger day , new tools , Revit 2010. Follow-up from Revit Blogger Day. Autodesk Revit blogger day!

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 27, 2011

Here's a few things that have come up lately regarding importing dwg data: Revit imports from Model Space unless there is nothing in Model Space. Revit only recognizes the World Coordinate System (WCS) Revit doesn't "see" AutoCAD points, doesn't snap to them, you'll see them but can't "use" them.

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BIM & Beam

APRIL 29, 2015

s Construction Engineering Services (CES) team was awarded with a CRSI Honors for their detailing efforts in Revit. Traditional rebar detailing is done using a 2D drafting program. The CES team utilizes customized tools in Revit Structure and a BIM approach to model and detail reinforcing steel. Recently the Martin/Martin, Inc.’s

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Revit OpEd

JUNE 17, 2015

The stock Revit family Nominal Cut Lumber-Sectio n isn't built very well. Here's an example of it being used in a Drafting View. After reloading the family into my Drafting View the center-line symbol and dimension witness line references have shifted over to properly identify the center-line of the lumber section instead.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 14, 2023

I also regularly use Revit in my work. While I enjoyed drafting, as I got further into my career and got to experience other disciplines, I noticed how poorly we work with each other and wanted to change that. I have been in the industry for about 5 years. How did you get into the construction industry?

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 14, 2023

I also regularly use Revit in my work. While I enjoyed drafting, as I got further into my career and got to experience other disciplines, I noticed how poorly we work with each other and wanted to change that. I have been in the industry for about 5 years. How did you get into the construction industry?

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 30, 2011

Revit will complain if you attempt to use them to name a view, sort of. If you create a drafting view and use something like "1/2:12" it won't complain. Try to rename it and you'll be in trouble with Revit. These characters will create errors when Revit tries to create the file using them. An odd quirky item to be sure.

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CAD Shack

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Revit Systems debuted early this year giving MEP engineers a third choice of CAD technology to use; it may have also caused a bit of confusion on what software is really the best for any given firm. This article should help clarify the choices and provide a solid overview of Revit Systems. So why choose Revit Systems?

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Revit OpEd

AUGUST 14, 2013

Just a short post tonight to plug a new blog that my friend Steven Shell decided to start called BIM: Integrating Art & Technology He is a practicing architect in Tuscon (sole practitioner) that skipped over the whole "CAD thing" and went straight to Revit from hand drafting. That and his own irrepressible style and creativity.

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CAD Shack

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

There are times when AutoCAD files are required to be added to Revit project files. There two ways to incorporate AutoCAD DWG files into Revit. Inserted DWG files remain static and don’t change in Revit when they are updated in AutoCAD. Labels: AMEP , Fixes , How To , Revit , Revit MEP , Tricks and Tips.

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 11, 2012

You can alter a view for the first floor but if another floor's view is open Revit seems to spend time thinking about that one too, even mention the linked files. It is particulary evident when a project has many linked files.

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CAD Shack

APRIL 27, 2006

Digital Drafting Whether you liked AutoCAD, MicroStation, or whatever. (I We still drafted, but with digital lines. A Revit project has only one model. AutoCAD 2007 Advantages -Highly adaptive to most any drafting use. ABS will draft AutoCAD into the ground when properly set up. I have never crashed Revit… Ever.

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CAD Shack

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Well I hope to point out some of the potential problems you might encounter if you are going down the Revit trail. I hope to follow up this out line with some "how to do it" posts that will give you a little more detail on getting the Revit train a rollin'. You will need to accept what comes with Revit or customize for your office use.

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CAD Shack

JANUARY 9, 2007

The question I always seem to come back to is this, What is it going to take to get Revit Systems working for me? BIM If you are wanting to switch to Revit Systems because you are feeling pressure to complete a BIM model, Keep in mind, nobody can agree to what the Hell a BIM model is. When that happens, my money is on Revit to deliver.

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