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StairPorn.Revit – 7.31.09: Floating Stairs by Ong&Ong
This stair by Ong & Ong in the Blair Road Residence is the one that really caught my eye when I first visited StairPorn.org, so naturally I had to attempt it early in the series. It was quite a challenge! The treads and risers were quite simple, but the supports didn’t work quite the way […]
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Revit TotD – 7.31.09: Legend Tagging
======================= This is a tip that was written specifically for AECBytes.com’s Tips and Tricks newsletter which is a monthly publication from http://www.aecbytes.com/. The Article is also available to view at: http://www.aecbytes.com/tipsandtricks/2009/issue44-revit.html. Thanks to AECBytes.com for the opportunity to write for this publication, and thanks to all my readers for making this such a succes thus […]
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Revit TotD – 7.30.09: Revit 2010 Add-In Manager
Another short and sweet tip, this one dealing with an easy way to manager your add-ins. If you are an add-in hog, you may get tired of editing your Revit.ini file every time you load and unload an add-in for Revit. Well, with this simple little tool, you can have all the work done for […]
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Revit TotD – 7.29.09: Don’t Skip the SKP Mats
Another simple, quick yet useful tip today! A while back we mentioned Sketchup in our Topo tip, today I’m going to show you how to assign a material to that topo (or any object really) that you bring in to Revit from Sketchup. Assigning Materials to Sketchup Imports: In the Material library (Manage > Materials) […]
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StairPorn.Revit – 7.29.09: Hangover by Complett
So I was turned on (no pun intended) to this site (http://stairporn.org)a couple weeks ago and I am taking upon myself to start making some Revit versions of these stairs. A challenge, I like! To start things off, I went with the Hangover Stair by Complett I think it’s a good start! Like these stairs? Want to […]
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Revit TotD – 7.23.09: Family Materials, Parameter Application
So to wrap up this series on Family Material application, today I am going to show how to apply materials through a parameter in the family. Creating the Parameter: Types button on the Ribbon (it’s static, so you should be able to access it from any Ribbon) New under the Parameters section. Name the parameter, […]
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Revit TotD – 7.22.09: Family Materials, Subcategories
Yesterday I showed you how to directly apply materials to objects in your families and the reasons to do such a thing. Today I’m going to do the same thing, except we’ll be talking about the Subcategory approach. Create the Subcategory: (In the family creator) Manage Ribbon > Settings > Object Styles New in the […]
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Revit TotD – 7.21.09: Assigning Family Materials, the Direct Approach
I often see people struggling with getting a component in a project to render with the material they want it to render with. Usually upon inspecting the family that they are using I find that the materials are setup improperly, making it hard for the user to change materials to begin with (this does not […]
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TotD – 7.20.09: Tracing DWGs
Trust me, you won’t find anyone more against importing DWGs into a Revit project than me… well you might if you point over to RevitCity.com and browse around, but I’m pretty close to the top dawg in that category. However, I understand that sometimes it’s just the best way to get the job done. In […]
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Revit TotD – 7.17.09: Multi Line Text Fields
Don’t ask me how I stumbled across this one. It was so long ago that I can’t remember what I was doing to try this. I can remember it being somewhat serendipitous in the fact that it happened naturally, like, this key combo should produce this result. I needed an extra line in my parameter, […]