When creating sections you have to be careful at what scale you are creating them because Revit will automatically assign that value to the section for the Hide at Scale Coarser than parameter.
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Did you ever encounter that error message when using the Intersect tool in the Conceptual Massing environment?
Here’s the problem. Any lines. reference lines or reference planes that you will use to intersect cannot intersect any of the grid in the same axis. See the horizontal lines on that image they are not intersecting any of the horizontal grid in the pattern. (The red lines are the intersecting elements and the dotted blue ones the pattern.)
So we get a clean intersection
But when i insert a line that intersect the pattern i get an error message and a red line. (Horizontal lines are hidden for visibility purposes)
As soon as i correct the red line
It’s that time of the year again where you have to migrate from one version to another. One of the tool that is a MUST HAVE is the Avatech tool set. This year they graced us with 2 versions, the paid one an the Lite one. The Lite one (found here) includes the common Room Renumber, Change Case, Space Update and GridSelect tool. The cool thing this year is that you get new stuff with the paid version (found here). It now includes Element Renumber, MEP Parameter Tool and Parameter Copy Wizard. They also made a nice integration(as usual) with the Ribbon. So if you haven’t got it yet go ahead before the price change. I know that the Lite version would probably work for most people but that’s until you try the Renumber Elements. Remember when the tools where released we couldn’t live without the Room Renumber tool? Now’s the same with the Renumber Elements. Enjoy We all know it’s impossible to have a Calculated Value in a Tag so how do i manage to still show the information? Well we could simply use a Dumb Field all manually copy the value.
The problem though is that, if like in Room C, you made modifications to the model and now the Tag Value is not updated. To Fix that we will use the Conditional Formula feature Will start by adding another Calculated Value
Name: Switch Type: Yes/No Formula: abs(Total – Tag Value) < 1 Note: ABS returns a positive value. If your area is rounded down your resulting variance will be different than if it was rounded up. So the ABS function takes care of that (always making sure you get a positive number)
Now let’s add the Conditional Formula. Here we want to show the Switch cell Red if the value is no.
Every time that the value between Calculated Value and Tag Value is different we get a Red No in the Switch Parameter. That way we can visually check the schedule before printing. This time on Navisworks, Using Or instead of And in the Find Items Control Bar say your libraries:
Open a command prompt by pressing the Windows Key and R simultaneously.
Enter cmd and click Ok
Navigate to your library folder
Our example is C:\RevitLibraries\R2010\RAC\Autodesk\Imperial Library From there type: dir /s /w >Content.txt (Content.txt being the name of the output file)
and press enter. You now have a Content.txt in the library folder
Open it and you now have a list of the content.
When using software like Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop i prefer using EPS then PDF. The format is “cleaner” then a PDF and comes out as great outlines. But an EPS printer doesn’t come with Revit or the others software install. Here’s how to do it. Install the EPS printer from Adobe’s site (You might have to contact IT for that part)http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44&platform=Windows From Revit simply select the Generic PostScript Printer One thing that i stress when creating a library and working on a project is to take a minute to think about how elements interact together. Here’s a file that i created to explain the interaction between the elements. That should help getting closer to an adequate level of detail faster. Here’s a sample
If you want a copy of the file, just email us at blogger @ revitit.com You want to delete several elements quickly, here’s a way. Keep the Del key pressed and simply click on the elements you wish to delete. Quick and Dirty but works like a charm Sometimes you need to display both unit system (Imperial & Metric) say for example in a room schedule. Create a schedule that display the project units (Imperial in this example). I renamed the Area header for Area Imperial.
Create a calculated value and name it Area Metric. Enter Area in the Formula field. In the Formatting tab select Area Metric and click Field Format… Uncheck Use Project Settings, change the Units for Square meters and set the other options as needed.
We now have a dynamic way of displaying both values. |
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