Line / face based family
Line based Families are awesome.
Face based Families are awesome.
But have you ever combined the two in a single Family?
When-ever you need a swept object...
Exterior / interior elevations
It's common for most companies to graphically differentiate between exterior and interior elevations.
In these cases the exterior elevation markers will typically be a variation...
Textured conceptual topography using Google Maps imagery
This is a follow up to a previous post where a mapping service was used to gather images for application to a topography in conceptual...
Curtain wall constraints
Curtain Walls have great built-in properties to constrain their behaviour in various ways. Using the pattern based (Grid Layouts) properties, entire walls can be...
Truss structural joins
When Trusses are placed into the model, the default Structural Framing (Beam) elements don't automatically join with each other.
Steps
Select the Beam, and then...
Google Maps imagery with no labels for topography
Google Maps is a great source of geographical and cadastral information in image form, which can then be used on a topography in conceptual design...
Send masking region to background
When creating Families it is sometimes appropriate to use Masking Regions in order to help define how it should be represented in certain orientations...
Filled circles
Next time you're documenting or creating a Family and need a filled in circle, don't immediately reach for the Filled/Masking Region tool.
Instead, try drawing...
Bring DWG to foreground
DWG files can be linked into views as an underlay for modelling over. When doing so it can be difficult to see the DWG...
Disable auto apply
Have you ever started entering a value into the Properties panel and then accidentally bumped the cursor off from the Properties? After doing so...
Entering units
When entering in parameter values, you can specify different units to what the project is globally set to.
Looking at this example image, the roof's...
Type selector search
With the new Revit R2 Subscription Pack installed, did you notice there is a new search function on the Type Selector.
This makes finding the...