2013 Stair Shape Handles (RevitCat) 2013 Stairs and Railings. Watch Roof Framing Extensions for Autodesk Revit in Action. Revit tip of the day - Uppercase Text from PDFs and Word. Today, I overheard someone ask another Reviteer about uppercase text in a Revit text box. Apparently, he had a PDF that he needed to get into Revit. He copied the text from the PDF to Microsoft Word, highlighted everything and in the character properties, checked the uppercase box.
Then he copied the text into Revit and it was back to sentence case. Since Revit doesn't grab Word's formatting codes, he was going to have to retype everything. I asked if I could sit at his desk for a moment and came up with a 30 second solution. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Of course, the fact that 4 programs are involved to just get your text is a great waste of efficiency, but at least it saves you from retyping everything. I hope that helps. Ideate BIMLink and Revit MEP Space Type Modification. In either of the above cases the average time to select and change two (2) spaces from the default <Building> definition to a completely different definition is roughly 20 seconds. So, if we extrapolate that number , the average time for changing 200 spaces is 2000 seconds which works out to be roughly 30 minutes. This value must be changed if correct Energy Analysis information is to be expected from the Spaces and Zones.
The same process in Ideate BIMLink would be roughly 5 minutes and it does not have to be an individual who is accustom to Revit it can be someone who is comfortable with Excel and editing. I will now demonstrate how easy it is with Ideate BIMLink to export out the Spaces with the appropriate information, edit the values in Excel, then simply re-import the information back into Revit MEP. The one and only Caveat to using Ideate BIMLink to do this work is that you should take note before hand of what the name of the Space Type is in the Space Type Settings dialog box. Connecting Design to Analysis with Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional.
Improved snapping to fillets and hooks in Revit. There was a need to have additional references and characteristic points when modeling reinforcements in order to accurately define them in concrete elements. Fillet and Hook references let you define a rebar or rebar set in the appropriate position within a fillet or hook. By snapping to these references you can avoid interferences and collisions with other rebar.
For fillets the references are placed at points of tangency and at the mid-point of the fillet arc. For hooks the references are placed at the point of tangency with the rebar segment, at the point of tangency with the hook extension and at cardinal points between them. After modifying properties of rebars or reinforced elements snapping to the references is preserved and adjusted to modified settings. It helps you define concrete reinforcement more accurately. Area and Path Reinforcement hosting structural rebar. Autodesk Revit 2013 provides some new functionalities in 3D reinforcement.
Some enhancements have been made to help users better visualize concrete reinforcement in Autodesk Revit. Area and Path Reinforcement has been updated with new behavior that make these elements containers for hosting Structural Rebar in a similar manner as Beam Systems and Trusses host Structural Framing. The existing behaviors of Area and Path Reinforcement have been maintained. The main difference between the old and new behavior is that right now Structural Rebar elements appear in the floor or wall. Once an Area or Path Reinforcement has been created it can be removed using the Remove tool in the ribbon.
Multi-Segment Grids – Multiple Segments Visible in an Elevation \ Section View - The Revit Clinic. For multi-segment grids you could potentially have several grid segments [of the same gridline] perpendicular to an elevation \ section view. As with standard grids, when a datum element is perpendicular to the view by default it will display. For example, if you have a multi-segment grid in plan similar to this shape the elevation view would display the following: If you run into this scenario and do not want to show both grid segments you can utilize the View Properties > Far Clipping. If the elevation \ section far clipping point terminates before the second perpendicular gridline it would not display in the view: Datum Extents and Visibility.
Greater control over the analytical model in Autodesk Revit 2013. Inside the System: Using the Spot Elevation Tool to Tag Bottom and Top of Pipe in Revit. When Adding a Keynote Tag the User Borrows a Sheet Workset - The Revit Clinic. You may on occasion notice a user becoming the borrower of a specific sheet workset in the project. This user may never have opened or explicitly borrowed that particular sheet. To confirm this navigate to Workset > Views > with the specific workset beginning with View “Sheet… One common scenario where this will occur is as follows: There is a sheet in the project A101.Several project views have been placed on this sheet.UserA is in one of the views that appear on sheet A101.
They have not opened or edited sheet A101 directly.In this view UserA adds a keynote.Because this view appears on sheet A101, Revit needs to borrow the view workset for sheet A101 to update keynote data. The next time UserA synchronizes with central, borrowed elements would be checked for relinquishment and the user would no longer be the borrower of the sheet workset. However during the period when UserA is the borrower of sheet workset A101 [before they sync] UserB could potentially run into this message: Change Workshared Project back to a non-workshared model. In previous version of Revit Structure, if you enabled worksharing for your project, but then you want to change it back to a non-workshared project, there is no function to change it back directly.In Revit Structure 2012, you can disable worksharing. 1.Click [R]>Open>Project (or click Open icon in Quick Access Toolbar), browse to the central file or local file2.Check “Detach from Central”，click Open 3.In “Detach from Central” dialog, select “Detach and discard worksets”, the file will be opened 4.Click Collaborate tab>Worksets panel, you will see worksharing is not enabled currently.
So the project you opened now has changed back to normal file without worksharing enabled. You can save this project, or click Collaborate tab>Worksets panel>Worksets to re-enable worksharing again. How to Identify Uncircuited Connections - Revit MEP Tip. BIM Inside the System You can quickly find uncircuited elements using System Browser. Under the Unassigned > Electrical section, you can find connections that are not circuited. Under the Electrical section, you can find connections that are circuited, but not connected to a panel... these will have the circuit indication of <unnamed>.
Connections that are circuited will show the circuit number. You can select any connection in System Browser, right click, and select Show to 'zoom' to the associated object in the model. If you want to visually identify this in the model canvas as you are working more dynamically, you can use View Filters to color these conditions. On the ribbon View tab, Graphics panel, click Filters. I've defined three filters for three conditions as shown below. Uncircuited Circuited No Panel With these filters defined, you can now apply them to a view as shown below. The resulting view will look something like that shown below. Happy circuiting! Everything you have ever wanted to know about Room Schedules...
Navisworks Linked Files - Absolute vs Relative Paths. On one of our BIM projects, an equipment consultant was nice enough to link all of the installation and maintenance PDFs to his specified equipment in Navisworks. Well, that was great until the sent us their model. None of the links would open. Why? Because everything referred to files on their server and x:\projects\projectname\files\navisworks\manuals just didn't work for us because that's not our server folder structure. Well, my answer is phhhbbbtttt!!!!! That's it. Free Revit Tutorials - Create a House (CAD Clips) Daryl, over at CAD Clips and Revit Rocks, has released over 14 hours of free Revit training videos.... They are recorded using Revit 2009 (pre-ribbon) but a lot of stuff still applies. In this series we will use a ‘work in progress’ approach to develop the series over a period of time.
Here are the main objectives: Custom Families, Clay Tile, Materials, Lighting, Rendering, Cameras, Site and Toposurfaces. Utilize a ‘Santa Barbara California’ modeling theme to keep it interesting. Drill down into the new Mental Ray Rendering tools and Materials. Take advantage of the CADclips supplied Content File which contains ALL the custom families in this series. Learn to create the custom families yourself, from scratch. We cover everything from Spanish Clay Tile Roofing to Topo Surfaces and Wall Scallops as we dress up the outside of our Santa Barbara models. Click here to check out the tutorial series now... Construction Schedules. REVIT MEP 2013 Tutorial Sloping Pipe System. Revit Tutorial - Create Parametric Complex Structural Forms. Revit training videos for free download.
Nǐ Hǎo Tere Bonjour Aloha Salut Hola Hello Yá'át'ééh Konnichiwa Alo Revit. Hi there. How many languages do you know? How many of them are you familiar with in the title above? I came up with an idea a month ago. Last week I saw something very similar in a Revit plugin. So, I did what anyone with not enough free time and an unrealistic insane notion of trying new things. I decided to learn a new language. Unfortunately, it's not like any normal language with a fixed number of words and phrases. The code you typed into Visual C# Express in Lesson 1 was a set of human-readable instructions (source code) that needed to be converted into code that could be understood and executed by the computer. Hello? Revit 2013 - New Level Properties. Revit Electrical Panel Madness - #BIMBattlefield.
An interesting set of events have taken place in the past week or so about Revit Electrical Panel schedules and their calculations. July 17, 2012 For me, the affair started with engineers at the firm I work for claiming the math was wrong. After some research and a deadline that had to be met my colleague, Doug, and I came up with a handout seen in the post. July 24, 2012 The same day, Kyle Bernhardt publishes a very comprehensive post about all of the math that goes on behind the scenes of the Revit Electrical Panel Schedule. Personally, I do not have the electrical know-how to understand every piece of post so Doug and I sent it off to our engineers to read over. "If we take the separate load per phase the math is correct. July 25, 2012 Kyle Bernhardt publishes another post proclaiming that something has been done about his in the latest Revit 2013 update. I have not installed the update to Revit MEP 2013 yet to see exactly what it did (did it unlock the parameter or calculated values?)
Select Element by Offset Height. Revision Trickery. As I was blog-stalking today, I saw Steve Stafford over at Revit OpEd posted about the revisions on sheet dialog that is somewhat hidden in the sheet properties but helps with revisions schedules so much! It got me thinking I should post about some other little revision tricks that I think are hidden or people just don’t think about.
In the revision dialog you have the option for your "numbering" sequence to be by number, alphabetic, or None. None is the secret hidden power here! If you want to add your initial packages such as DD and CD to your revision schedule, but don’t want to show a number because you will not be tagging anything, you can do this by adding these items to the revisions dialog and changing the sequence to none.
You’d then need to go to each sheet's properties and in the revisions on sheet dialog check on those initial packages as they apply. Sadly, there is no way to check these on and off quickly from the drawing list. Until next time good buddies! Curtain Wall Grids Appear After Wall Re-Sizing. I have had numerous posts about curtain walls throughout this blog so I figured I would add another little tip. This is just one that can remove much of the annoyances I am sure you have run into in the past.
First, I highly suggest using a curtain wall type that does not have any grid lines predefined right from the start. I can almost guarantee that you will be unpinning and manipulating at least one grid line in each of your curtain walls. Once you do that, adn you start changing the length or height of the curtain wall... Good luck to you... Grids will start appearing out of no where, panels will get replaced, doors will disappear, and fluffy kittens will die... Before we kill anymore fluffy kittens follow these steps for curtain walls that were drawn with a pre-defined grid system and giving you a headache now: Select all the internal grids of the curtain wall.Unpin them.Select the curtain wall..Change the wall to a wall type without any defined grid pattern.
Creating Parametric Complex Structural Forms in Revit | BIM Technologist. Sharing Autodesk Materials Throughout An Organization | Applying Technology to Architecture. Autodesk 2013 products allow you to create a library that contains the most commonly used and standard materials within an organization. It can be daunting and confusing to users when they go to specify a material for something and there are many materials from which to choose.
Autodesk provides many materials Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB), companies will develop materials in-house, and materials may be downloaded, all of which creates a large collection of materials. This article will describe how you can create a central library on the company server in 3 easy steps, from which users can select the preferred material. The process involves creating a library on the server, populating it with the desired materials, and then having others access this library. Step 1 – Create a Library Step 2 – Add Materials to the Company Library The new company library does not contain any materials at this point, so you will now need to add materials to it. Step 3 – Have Other Users Access the Company Library. Can't Select Filled Region. Adaptive Components By Julien. Revit Structure Tutorial - Revit 2013 to Robot 2013.
Dept. of Echo - Don't use the Basic Ceiling. YouTube. YouTube. Revit Resource: Blogs by Topic. Reviting | Revit Architecture Tutorials, Tips & Tricks, Metric Families, Family Downloads.