tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23453507538498722642024-03-18T20:48:49.061+11:00RevitCatThe Revit Less Travelled - tips and tricksRevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.comBlogger271125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-58264021924918211772023-04-14T22:33:00.000+10:002023-04-14T22:33:02.585+10:00Zoom in Family Types Dialog BoxToday I watched episode 99 of BIM After Dark, hosted by the Revit Kid. The guest presenter was Nicolas Catellier (Revit Pure), showing Advanced Revit Family Concepts. However much you might think you know about Revit, there is always something new to learn. One tip that I picked up was the ability to zoom in the Family Types dialog box - this can be useful when you RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-28157552070205389402022-03-15T10:00:00.128+11:002022-03-15T10:00:00.193+11:00Stepped Stair Railing Top Rail Extension in RevitFollowing on from an earlier post about stepped railings, here is a bit more information about what happens when you try to add Top Rail extensions.Weird Railing Stuff - part 18If the lowest boundary line on the railing path has a Slope property "By Host", the railing segment will be horizontal (assuming you have done a Height Correction on the other segments) To add an extension to the base of RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-53337588333138178052022-02-26T20:52:00.001+11:002022-02-26T20:52:58.904+11:00Poor Man's Array in RevitThere are several situations in Revit where the Array tool is not available - one of those is when using the Sketch commands. Here is a quick workaround.Stair Sketch ExampleIn this example I wanted to create a stepped side to a stair in the sketch mode.When I selected two of the stepped boundary lines, I discovered to my horror that the Array tool is greyed out.WorkaroundInstead of using RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-58331267565405490402022-02-08T09:00:00.268+11:002022-02-27T11:47:55.742+11:00Stepped Handrail on Stepped Stairs in RevitA couple of years back I posted on how to create a stair with stepped sides. I always intended to follow it up with what happens to the handrail, and how to solve it? Well, it is never too late. Just in case you are wondering how to create the stepped side to the stair run in sketch mode - here is a trick for creating a DIY array in Revit.When you create a stepped boundary RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-10835749427580376022022-01-25T17:51:00.000+11:002022-01-25T17:51:01.925+11:00They Broke Their Own Cloud Space in Revit 2022Way back in Revit 2015, Autodesk gave us a really nice enhancement:Ability to use all the sketch line drawing tools to quickly create Revision Clouds. Prior to v2015 we had to laboriously draw each arc of the cloud as a segment (2 clicks: for start and end of the arc) - the longer the segment, the larger the arc radius. For those who never experienced it, that was a really RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-12036539805863625382021-12-25T21:22:00.000+11:002021-12-25T21:22:42.411+11:00Upgrading to Revit 2022 and Windows 10Way back in 2016 I posted about my dislike of Windows 10 (not to mention 8 and 8.1 which I thought were diabolical). I resisted upgrading from Windows 7 for several more years - even after Microsoft ceased support for that version. Many IT Managers around the world followed the same strategy until official support stopped - whereupon they were forced to move to Windows 10.My reasons RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-13404524923358311012021-11-24T15:40:00.000+11:002021-11-24T15:40:07.115+11:00Revit Mirror Command is So Not BIM What is one of the first things that you teach people who are moving from Autocad to Revit?"When making changes in Revit, DO NOT delete and replace elements - you should always modify the original elements even if it takes longer" Why is that? Because you never know what data or hosted elements are attached to existing elements - so if you "Delete and Replace" you might lose the RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-58333868509929618912021-10-13T23:33:00.000+11:002021-10-13T23:33:22.635+11:00Double-Click Trouble in RevitIn Revit 2019, one of the fantastic new features was the ability to slow double-click to rename views in the Project Browser ! Fantastic? Not true - it is an almost universally hated new feature. If you search on the internet, you will find an endless list of questions and answers on how to disable this feature.I do know one person (who shall remain nameless) who claims to RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-28512868195802934802021-09-25T12:57:00.001+10:002021-09-25T12:57:35.748+10:00Revit 2022.1 So Good it Trashed the Installer Excited by all the hype about Revit 2022.1, I just downloaded and installed it.All went well apart from a couple of minor glitches:1 - Parallel InstallsIt decided that it could not install more than 33%, and sat there for ages before announcing that it had failed due to some other install going on. I have no idea what it was - some kind of system update, which required a reboot?After RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-18825326621752378162021-08-15T22:30:00.002+10:002021-08-16T09:50:36.676+10:00Display Priorities of Solid Fill in Revit MaterialsBack in Revit 2012 Autodesk changed the way materials work - so that they had separate graphics and appearance properties. This was the start of much confusion for many users - and still to this day it catches people out. You know the drill: duplicate a material; change its appearance properties and suddenly a hundred other materials change too . . . .Well, I am not going RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-69908299177899041772021-07-14T10:09:00.002+10:002021-07-15T17:04:31.364+10:00Filtering Filters in RevitThe term "Filter" is much used in Revit - and it means different things in different situations. Filters also follow varied and confusing rules depending on what you are doing. Below are some of the rules and exceptions:Coffee FiltersThe 'Filter' icon in Revit probably makes good sense to most Americans, but others around the world might be a bit puzzled - it is a historical image, RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-83658956916385682592021-06-15T17:48:00.002+10:002023-04-14T18:47:51.410+10:00Family Types Dialog Column Widths in RevitDoes anyone find trying to control the column width in the Family Types dialog box annoying?The "Lock" column in particular, has been driving me mad for the last 16 years!About 7 or 8 years ago (?), Autodesk made a partial improvement to that dialog box: Revit remembers the size of the dialog box when you open or close the dialog - previous to that it always reset to a small default size &RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-25723623769302809172021-05-17T13:16:00.000+10:002021-05-17T13:16:07.495+10:00Revit Family Error Automatically ResolvedSome of you may not be aware but Autodesk sneaked in a new "Feature/Enhancement" in about version 2018 (I think?) - I do not remember any discussion or announcement about this in the testing/release process:Warning: "Family Error Automatically Resolved"When you try to place or modify a component using parameter values that break the family (eg. cause impossible geometry), Revit will now tryRevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-75324787152580200762021-04-17T08:43:00.001+10:002021-04-19T17:29:59.789+10:00Cut with Voids When Loaded - 'Cuts Geometry' PostscriptFollowing my earlier blog post on Cut with Void When Loaded in Revit, I have discovered another subtle exception to the rule:It does not work properly with the new Revit 2021 feature "Void Cuts in Family Geometry" that allows you to turn the 'cutting capability' voids on/off in a family. NB. This is sometimes referred to as turning off Void visibility, which is misleading.Void in Family RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-5887279701699781162021-04-01T10:00:00.000+11:002021-04-01T10:00:00.564+11:00Rustic Railings in RevitThere has been a lot of talk over the years about just how hard the Revit stair and railing tools are to work with.I decided to do an experiment - and see how long it took to build an actual stair and railing vs building the same thing in Revit.I chose to build a rustic-style stair as it was outdoors in a wild garden setting.Rustic Stair and Railing HackathonI thought I had better give Revit a RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-68170676486002544622021-03-14T16:04:00.000+11:002021-03-14T16:04:11.360+11:00Shared Parameters in Revit View FiltersHere is another Revit Gotcha for young and old: Family Editor Shared ParametersIf you add a new Shared Parameter in the family editor, you might expect that parameter to be available in a project in all situations. You would be wrong!Shared Parameters created in the family editor, and then loaded into a project have two entirely different (inconsistent) behaviours:In Schedules, the RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-23012334181242288192021-02-20T15:05:00.002+11:002021-03-03T10:40:26.830+11:00Cut with Voids when Loaded in RevitWhen this new feature appeared in Revit about 10 years ago (v2012?), it was always a bit mysterious - it had many confusing restrictions about how and when you could use it So, what is this family property that shows up in the Family Editor in Revit?Autodesk Help in v2021:Autodesk Help "Cut with Voids When Loaded: When selected, voids created in the family
will cut through solids. The following RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-16545964718871560102021-01-22T21:42:00.000+11:002021-01-22T21:42:48.070+11:00Revit Stair Wall Joins in SectionFollowing on from an earlier post about joining stairs and floors, I just wanted to clarify what happens when you try to join Stairs and Walls in section . . . .We saw previously that Revit does have some limited capability to join stairs and floors at the base of a stair - but it has many limitations.Joining a Wall and a FloorAll good Revit users would know that if a floor and a wall are of the RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-59296344380337289342020-12-01T09:00:00.008+11:002020-12-01T09:00:03.067+11:00Stair Section Detail Level in RevitHere is yet another problem with Revit Stairs that really needs to be fixed by Autodesk: The view 'Detail Level' display in section is not consistent between walls, floors and stairs (not to mention ramps!):View Detail LevelWhen a view is set to Medium or Fine detail level, sections of most categories display the correct materials:When the View detail level is set to 'Coarse', the cut RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-50242795828823582902020-11-13T14:25:00.002+11:002020-11-13T14:34:41.803+11:00Revit Stair-Floor Joins in SectionThe inability of Stairs to properly join to floors (or other elements) in Revit has long been on the wishlist of things for Autodesk to fix. Back in v2014, we were very excited when Autodesk included this in the list of enhancements to be released. As per many recent Revit enhancements, this was only a partial improvement.You can be the judge as to whether it was "fixed" but most RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-56886243049036500522020-10-08T15:29:00.001+11:002021-01-22T19:40:42.926+11:00BIMAfterDark Presentation - NURBS in Revit Ever wanted to create vegetables in Revit? No, well, what about curvy furniture? Organic Shapes using #NURBS in #Revit.I will be presenting as a guest speaker on #BIMAfterDark Live (The RevitKid). 7.30pm US Eastern Daylight Time 8th October 2020.Or 10.30am Australian Eastern Daylight saving time 9th Oct 2020. Or watch it laterHere is the link on YouTube Live: RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-7607727662021784342020-09-01T09:00:00.055+10:002020-09-01T09:00:07.798+10:00Revit 2021.1 and Load Autodesk ContentRevit 2021.1 was recently released by Autodesk - for those waiting on the first 'point release' before upgrading to Revit 2021, this might be time to go for it.But wait - there is a new feature in 2021.1 that you need to know about:"Load Autodesk Family" Technology PreviewWhen you install Revit 2021.1 there will be a new icon on the Insert tab: 'Load Autodesk Family'This is a "Technology RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-43422845073772511272020-08-09T21:57:00.004+10:002022-01-25T17:52:09.577+11:0010 Years of Revit Architecture EnhancementsIn this blog I have analysed and made comments on various Revit Architecture enhancements over the years. With all the recent talk of subscription value-for-money, I thought that now would be a good time to list and analyse the yearly enhancements to core Revit and those specific for Architects (my field).
Major changes
to the software occurred in v2010 with a radical change to the UI (theRevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-20240741684699065872020-07-15T21:36:00.000+10:002020-07-15T21:36:57.658+10:00Slanted Wall Joins in Revit 2021Following on from my Analysis of Slanted Walls in Revit 2021, and Analysis of Slanted Walls and Rooms in Revit 2021 let us see how it handles slanted wall joins in plan.Mysterious BehaviourI have not yet figured out the rule for this, but it seems that slanted walls sometimes join properly in plan and sometimes not . . . The failure of wall layers to join seems to occur at varying wall angles andRevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345350753849872264.post-70713015085584470292020-07-01T09:00:00.105+10:002020-07-01T09:00:08.494+10:00Analysis of Slanted Walls with Rooms in Revit 2021Following on from my Analysis of Slanted Walls in Revit 2021, I want to see how they interact with Rooms.Room EnclosureThe first thing to study with slanted walls is how they behave when enclosing room elements.With a normal wall, when you raise the base offset above the base constraint level, you may get this warning:"Room is not in a properly enclosed region"This does depend on the computation RevitCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421472010756742971noreply@blogger.com0