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Revit TotD – 7.3.2018 | Masking Regions in 3D Families
Sometimes… sometimes we just can’t help ourselves and we HAVE to draw 2D elements for reasons. Just reasons. When that happens you still want to care about graphical information and drawings looking correct. Having a Chair look like it’s in the same plane as a table just… well that ain’t right. So this video […]
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RevitTotD – 7.6.2015 | Delete all Revisions
“Hey, we decided we don’t need any revisions for the next issue.” Sure no problem. Except your project has 1,381 Revisions in it, across 140 sheets… … and they’re all hidden… … and as everyone knows, you can’t delete that last revision from Revit. ENTER DYNAMO! You can download the graph here (Dynamo […]
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Thus ends a chapter.
I’m hoping to start posting more… a lot more. I want to begin with the end. Today marked the end of a chapter of my life that I honestly did not plan on ending. I planned on it lasting at least long enough to be a part of my kids’ lives and possibly even further. […]
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FREE ARE Practice exams [now on Windows 8!]
It seems like not too long ago I was posting about how to get the ARE Practice Exams to work on your turn of the [21st] century 64-bit Windows 7 machines… you know, like the ones your grandparents use now. It seems that this won’t work on Windows 8 for various, good reasons. The same […]
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[2015] Using Fence to Change Target
Here is a quick tip to help you stay in that command while being able to switch targets. See below the break for more specifics on what this tip covers. While in a multi-part command like Join with the Multiple Join option checked, you can switch targets of the join by dragging a selection area […]
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Free ARE Practice Exams
PREAMBLE: it was quickly brought to my attention that while the NCARB site indicates that their practice exam programs are not compatible with 64-bit operating systems, the software will indeed run in a 64-bit environment. The error will occur when you launch the practice vignettes for each practice exam. While your mileage may vary on the […]
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The Value of Certification
Autodesk places a lot of emphasis on using Certified Hardware with Certified Drivers to aid in their quality assurance efforts. I’ve found however that I tend to lose more work when working with Certified Hardware run by Certified Drivers than on non-certified hardware with non-certified drivers. I made a graph to illustrate my personal experience: […]
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Revit Hating
Ever had one of those things that you always kinda knew, but didn’t REALLY know until you looked at it from outside your box (I thank Bruce Mason, my middle school Target teacher for the ability to do this)? So today I was thinking about all the hate that Revit gets, even from me; especially […]
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Don’t fret!
For the 3 or 4 of you who still hold on to that last thread of hope that things will begin appearing here again, just a heads up. Our server host is moving servers around over the next couple of days. There may be some hiccups in service. We’ll be getting them taken care of […]
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Worksharing: Rule #1
When working in a workshare Revit project, there is only one rule when playing the workshare blame game: He who smelt it, dealt it!
