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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.

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]]> 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 that

Stair sketch will be set as Auto-Detect but can also be set to Flat or Sloped.

Here’s what Flat will do

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]]> 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 the first wall

Place your cursor over the last wall needed in the sequence

THEN press TAB 

The order will depend on the way the walls were built.

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]]> 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 copy the bottom portion into a text file (make sure you save as a .pat)

Now import it into Revit

Then you use as needed

You can get the Excel file in the link below  thanks to Chris.

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]]> 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 change the Projection lines from the Model Categories but that will also change the Structural Elements from your model.

To achieve what were after you will need to go to Revit Links and click By Host View for the Structural Model.

Under the Basics tab we need to change By host view to Custom, this will allow us to control the Visibility as if we were directly in the Structural model.

Then under Model Categories, change <By host view> to <Custom>. You can now access all the categories. Scroll down to the structural elements and change their display to let’s say blue.

I suggest to change both Projection and Cut since we might be cutting through some Structural elements while in a section view.

Here’s the result

Now apply the same concepts to the MEP model

You know have a clear pictures of Architectural versus Engineering elements

Be careful when navigating the Link files Visibility/Graphics because if you set the display back to <By host view> by mistake (like by scrolling your mouse wheel) you loose all changes.

I also suggest that you save the  View Template.

You can then quickly apply it to other views.

You could achieve the same thing with Filter but i find it faster to use a View Template because i can apply it to multiple views at the same time.