creative Solutions and Musings by Carl Gibson
Archive for June, 2009
Revit TotD – 6.30.09: Room Tag Types “I don’t have that option!”
Jun 30th
As usual, this tip is the result of coming across another odd “I don’t have that option” when trying to help another fellow revitcity.com member. When he asked about how to show the Volume and are information in his room tags, I simply remarked that he should choose the correct Room Tag type from the…
Revit TotD – 6.29.09 – Stealing Worksets from Lazy Co-Workers
Jun 29th
WARNING!!!! If you are not a BIM Manager in your office, stop reading here! This is not a tip for the drafters in the office that don’t feel like placing Edit Requests to get something mundane done instead of walking over to your co-worker’s desk; if you hate them that much, you probably need to…
Revit TotD – 6.26.09: Same View, new Callout
Jun 26th
Here’s a quick tip to round off the week, most of you may know this already, but I think ALL of you should know, therefore I’m posting this little tip! Ever had a View such as a cad detail or a drafting view that you want to reference by a new callout in your project? …
Revit TotD – 6.25.09: Wall Profiles and Constraints
Jun 25th
The last project I worked on in a real office was a real piece of work. With about 12 people in total working on the model at any given time, the model no doubt had some issues between everyone having their way with the model. One of the issues that occurred DAILY was with wall…
Revit TotD – 6.24.09: Project Elevation vs. Actual Elevation
Jun 24th
Yeah, I know you’ve been there. Your boss asked you to make the elevations on a certain sheet show the actual elevation above sea level. You tried to move all the levels up 600′ and EVERYTHING B0RKED!!! If you haven’t been there you will eventually, well maybe not if you read this because you’ll know…
Revit TotD – 6.15.09: Phases and your views!
Jun 15th
Oh hi there! Guess you keep coming back for something. Hopefully for things like this! Today I am going to show you why you keep having to change the phase of the objects that you are creating and even better how to make your objects automagically be listed under the correct phase. In the view…
Revit TotD – 6.11.09: Curtain Walls.5 | Advanced Curtain Wall Types
Jun 11th
OK, so those of you that are here that really know your stuff may start thinking that this isn’t really advanced. You’re right, but looking back, we started with navigating a freaking curtain wall… this is pretty advanced for those people that are just delving into Revit’s curtain walls; and you guys are doing great…
Revit TotD – 6.10.09: Curtain Walls.4 | Curtain Wall Doors
Jun 10th
OK, so by now, if you’re an architect, you’re probably saying “Will you please stop calling it a curtain wall?!?” No, I will not. Not because I don’t know that it’s not technically a curtain wall, but because unfortunately curtain wall is what Autodesk decided to call it. So just know, when I say curtain…
Revit TotD – 6.9.09: Curtain Walls.3 | The Curtain Panel
Jun 9th
You probably wouldn’t believe me when I told you how many requests I get about how to add doors into curtain walls. Or maybe you’re one of the many that have struggled with this and would in fact believe me with how many requests I get! Whichever boat you float in, I’m glad you stopped…
Revit Totd – 6.8.09: Curtain Walls.2 | “WHY CAN’T I MOVE GRIDS!??!?”
Jun 8th
Heh… I have to laugh at this one. Here in lies a tip that essentially is the answer for probably 80% of the problems that people have when working with Revit. This one in particular I see in about 30% of the questions regarding Curtain Walls; “Why can I move the grids in my curtain…
