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Month: October 2009

  • Revit TotD – 10.19.09 | Working with Profiles in Project

    Every  now and again you’ll run across an object that you want to change, but don’t want to have to figure out what nested family it’s using, stop working on the project, find the profile family, open the family, change it, save it, load it into the project, yada, yada, yada… who wants to do…

  • Revit TotD – 10.16.09 | Varying Thickness Floor Layers

    Continuing the topic of floors, I want to talk about a scenario that happens in a lot of projects; especially since this is something that happens in MANY commercial roofs. I speak of the one and only varying thickness in a layer of an assembly. Floors or roofs, this method can be used with either…

  • Revit TotD – 10.15.09 | Pancake Floors

    So you just finished placing the existing structure of building you are remodeling into revit and start working on the floors… only to ask the question, “Should I really have made this a single floor type?” Well, today’s tip is less of a How-to and more of a How Carl Does It. Typically, you would…

  • Revit TotD – 10.12.09: Revit’s “Center” Command

    Oh, hello there!  Thought I had completely forgotten about you, didn’t you?  Well, no, not completely.  I had to deal with some personal issues, namely the beginning of my family!  You can all blame it on my new son when he’s old enough to understand what you’re all upset about.  Till then, I’m going to…