Tag: TotD

  • 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, […]

  • Revit TotD – 6.30.09: Room Tag Types “I don’t have that option!”

    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 – 6.26.09: Same View, new Callout

    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

    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

    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!

    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 […]