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Slab and Slab Edge

This is a repost from The Revit Clinic since i had a few emails regarding the process.

The video is here

Intersect… Not Always

We need to understand a basic rule of the Intersect tool. This video shows what works and what doesn’t.

Displaying both unit system in surface schedules

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.

. . . → Read More: Displaying both unit system in surface schedules

A little subtlety in the Railing design

Some of you might not remember that there is various options for a Railing sketch… especially when attached to a stair.

Take that Railing for example

By default the way it slope is set to By Host

But you can change that option to Flat or Sloped. Flat in that example will look like . . . → Read More: A little subtlety in the Railing design

Selective Chain …Selection

We all know about using the TAB key to select connected elements

But what if i want to only select the South Walls

I could use a window but then i would have to use the filter to remove the doors from my selection.

Here’s a quicker way to do it.

Select . . . → Read More: Selective Chain …Selection

Simple Tile Fill Pattern with Grout

We all know that Revit’s ability to generate Tile  fill pattern is limited to crossing lines.

Chris Baze wrote a nice Excel file to help you achieve a little bit more detail in a lot faster way then using Notepad.

Simply fill in the information for Height, Width & Grout Width

Then . . . → Read More: Simple Tile Fill Pattern with Grout

Coordination Display

You want to use colors for coordination purpose, here’s how to do it. Here’s the initial Section view

Go to Visibility/Graphics and make sure you check Show categories from all disciplines. This will display all the Structural and MEP categories.

To first show the the Structural Elements in blue you could simply . . . → Read More: Coordination Display

Sheet Creator

Jason Grant gave us a nice xmas gift. On December 25th he released the first version of the sheet creator. The application is designed to facilitate the Sheet creation process by entering the information in a single dialog box repetitively.

The application is dead simple to use. After the install (which are well documented . . . → Read More: Sheet Creator

Organizing the Browser

I got ask last week how to organize the browser so i decided to show you how i do mine, and how to do it.

Here’s an idea of what my Browser Organisation looks like

I use an Organizational Code to order it. I found that method to be more effective over time . . . → Read More: Organizing the Browser