Revit users often prefer when all teams are working in Revit. This allows coordination to be smooth and seamless. However, more often than not, the software for coordination is not specified, especially for smaller projects. This can potentially add disruptions turning a supposedly quick-and-dirty project into a not so quick-and-dirty project. Consider this example Read more…
The first time you open Revit, you will encounter this pop-up. Here’s a recommendation, just click the “Don’t show this message again” and click OK. Problem solved. What does it even mean? The pop-up is notifying you that you will be creating and opening a “local copy” of the central Read more…
What’s better? Floating, Face-hosted, or Hosted families? Answer: Floating is superior. Face-hosted is only great for wall types, but even then model management for face-hosted families is a nightmare. Great for when they are first placed, horrific for making changes down the road. The benefit for moving whenever walls, floors, Read more…
All of Autodesk’s OOTB Revit Library content are available online for download. In versions Revit 2023 and later, after clicking “Load Family”, a file conveniently points to the Autodesk website where the content can be found online, and it also mentions the new “Load Autodesk Family” tool. The new “Load Read more…
This post may seem unnecessary. But unfortunately, it’s necessary. Floor plans should be created using the “Floor Plan” function in Revit. This is the standard modeling practice in the industry. Floor Plans allow for Rooms to be place on these views which is a 3-dimensional element in Revit. When elevations Read more…
It has been long rumored that odd-year versions of Revit (ie. 2017, 2019, 2021, etc.) are more unstable than even-year versions. This is due to the history of new features being introduced in odd years and flushed out before they are stabilized in even years. Hence the preference to use Read more…
In Revit, there are several family categories that families belong to and sometimes it can be confusing which the correct category should be. Specifying the correct category is important because there are built-in Revit functions associated with those categories to make the families work as intended. What’s annoying is that Read more…
The following steps are considered the fasted way to get into a blank Revit project. This is especially useful for getting into Dynamo, test families, create test models, use a temporary model for transferring families and cleaning before transferring to the project model, and more. Go to File > New Read more…
In Revit 2022 and later, you can filter by Family and Type in schedules. This is one of a few god send updates by Autodesk in the latest versions of Revit. Before Revit 2022, it was always a pain in the butt to filter a specific family within a category. Read more…