What’s new in Revit 2020
Autodesk has released a range of new feature videos for Revit 2020.
If you want more details on some of these individual features check out...
Line style naming
Upgrading from AutoCAD?
Resist creating Line Style names that reflect the pen weights, e.g. 0.35
These become irrelevant due to the Line Weights deliberately changing thickness...
Working with point clouds
You'll notice that after you link in a Point Cloud file and put your cursor over it that it gets a pre-selection highlight.
This highlighting...
Painting a parameter
This has got to be one of my all time favourite hidden Family editing features.
Did you know that you can Paint a parameter? No?...
Custom family templates
Ever felt like you always start a new Family the same way every time by tediously having to manually add your company standards?
Well, you...
Scheduling mass floors
When creating conceptual models, Mass Floor elements adopt certain properties from its host Mass. This allows for more detailed scheduling of Mass Floors.
In this...
Closing sketches
When you are drawing out chains of Walls, or Sketch Lines while in Sketch mode, you can use a keyboard shortcut to snap back...
Options bar toggles
While using tools such as Copy, Move, Mirror, Rotate, Offset, & Align, holding CTRL and/or Shift with toggle the options on the Options Bar.
Parameter identification
With Families which have multiple sides, it can be ambiguous about which parameters relate to which sides.
Take the countertop example in the image. It has...
Images in schedules
2015 brings new functionality to add images to Families for scheduling, with the main intent of attaching product photos.
But, why not capture a screenshot...
Working view markers
In order to more easily and visibly identify unreferenced 'working' views such as sections and elevations, try putting a big 'W' in a view's...
Title block borders
A lot of companies have title blocks designed so that the border on some sides is set to <Invisible lines>. This has the limitation...