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Top 5 Tips for Creating Revit Families

·June 17, 2019
·Diane Butterworth
·1 Comment

As Revit family creators, we see, use and model a wide variety of Revit Families every day, thus becoming experts in identifying a great Revit file. Are your Revit Families at the correct standard? Here are our top 5 revit tips. 1. Standardised Structure. Naming a Revit Family is not…

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Collaborate in VR and AR with The Wild’s Revit Add-In

·April 16, 2019
·Gabe Paez
·1 Comment

Information is the foundation of knowledge, communication, and simulation on the internet. BIM has leveraged this capability to revolutionize the way we move from idea to construction, and Revit has led the way as the software of choice for the visualization and analysis of building information. But something is lost…

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Advanced Revit Schedules – Calculated Fields and Conditional Formats

·February 20, 2019
·Karl Tanner
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I've already mentioned how powerful Revit schedules can be here. They are really useful for displaying model information in your documentation. They are also extremely powerful ways to check and validate our models! That's what BIM is all about right?! Revit Schedules can help us save time so we don't have…

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The Top 15 Sites with FREE Revit Families

·February 3, 2019
·Karl Tanner
·20 Comments

UPDATED FEBRUARY 2019 This list has been compiled for anyone looking to download FREE Revit Families. Please let me know if any links no longer work and I will update :) Looking to download FREE Revit Families? Start here: We all need good content to populate our models, and if they are…

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How To Find Out What Version Of Revit A File Is Without Opening Revit

·December 12, 2018
·Karl Tanner
·7 Comments

As we all know, Autodesk bring out a new version of Revit every year. I for one have multiple versions of Revit loaded, as I have worked on a lot of different projects over the years. Existing projects can be upgraded to the newest version of Revit, but this can…

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You Legend! – Creating Legends in Revit using Legend Components

·November 12, 2018
·Karl Tanner
·6 Comments

Whilst we create digital models and work in 3D, at the end of the day we still need to produce 2D drawings which can be understood by many. Our drawings are really just lines on a sheet, which in turn represent the building (or bridge, plane, kitchen whatever...). A lot…

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Revit Family Guidelines: Top 20 Rules for Properly Built Revit Families

·October 23, 2018
·Pete Heibel
·1 Comment

Architects, draftsmen, designers, and engineers regularly encounter moments where we need to represent a building component in Revit and we’re faced with a decision. How are we going to represent this product in our Revit drawings? Should we take the time to model it ourselves (no), use a generic AutoCAD…

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How to Edit Profile of Curved Wall In Revit

·July 30, 2018
·Karl Tanner
·4 Comments

I was working on some interesting curved Retaining Walls in Revit the other day, and needed the top of the wall to slope and match the ground contours. When your walls are straight, you have the option to Edit the Profile by going into Sketch Mode and Editing the profile however…

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Revit Tags Rotate with Component – Some do and some don’t!

·June 18, 2018
·Karl Tanner
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Revit Tags are such a Powerful tool for annotating elements within your project. They make life so much easier when dealing with changes. They provide consistency with your annotations and save time typing repetitive information. I like them so much I try to ONLY use tags and ditch text notes altogether! But recently…

Top 5 Tips for Creating Revit Families

Collaborate in VR and AR with The Wild’s Revit Add-In

Advanced Revit Schedules – Calculated Fields and Conditional Formats

The Top 15 Sites with FREE Revit Families

How To Find Out What Version Of Revit A File Is Without Opening Revit

You Legend! – Creating Legends in Revit using Legend Components

Revit Family Guidelines: Top 20 Rules for Properly Built Revit Families

How to Edit Profile of Curved Wall In Revit

Revit Tags Rotate with Component – Some do and some don’t!

The Top 15 Sites with FREE Revit Families

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