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This is the second blog in a two part series on Blogging for Construction Marketing. Part 1 covered the benefits of blogging, blog platforms and features. This blog, Part 2, will consider the ongoing management and implementation of the blog, which focuses primarily on content. Other ongoing blog management considerations are building a blogroll and corresponding reciprocal links , updating other resource or content items like case studies , and supporting search engine optimization.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011. Overriding Dimensions in Revit. Say you are putting together a detail that has a dimension in it but for it to look appropriate, things really wont be to scale. What I am getting at, is that you want to put down a dimension that is wrong. Revit wont allow you to override it using the feet and inches symbols from your keyboard.
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