Modifying Wall Openings Problem - Cant Adjust with Grips

Thats about as boring of a title for a post as possible, but there's its to the point.  So here you go.

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I had some great highs and some great lows this year, both are realities of life.

Here's to happiness today, hope for the future, and fond memories of the past.  For it is all we are and all we leave in this world.  Miss ya Pop!

  

Model Deck Edges

So its been a while, I've been busy and that's how it goes....

Anyway, when you are detailling sections it can be tedious to insert deck edges and notation for every location.  If your model the deck edge it will appear in all sections and you can give it a keynote and be able to easily document it repeatedly.  Here is one way to do it.

CATWALK CITY!

GIVE ME PARADISE CITY

Downgrade a revit file thru IFC import

Thanks to http://whatrevitwants.blogspot.com/ -



 What Revit Wants: Using Revit 2015 for quick high fidelity IFC to RV...: Revit 2015 has brilliant IFC Link capability - it is fast and accurate, and it even brings in colours for most IFC elements. We can leverag...

Autosave in Revit kinda

What Revit Wants: Autosave in Revit? Well, not very reliable, but so...: from: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.cadsoft-consult.com/blogs/architecture/2010/04/autosave-in-revit/ ...

A quick tip on section cut symbol visibility

This is a small thing, but its not a straightforward setting to change; or maybe Im just a dumbass and everybody else gets it and I don't.  Well, either way, I've have the problem occasionally where my section cut symbol doesn't show up on the plan.  Usually it's 2 things, either its on the wrong phase or it is set to be hidden at a certain scale.  This video addresses that problem.


I've got some kick ass carpenters on a current job.  This is a new church in Birmingham, I feel like it's my mini duomo

Improve the PDF's you use and send people with BlueBeam 12

If you look at PDF's on the ipad and use BlueBeam, this will save you a little time and frustration. I guess this really improves reviewing a pdf anywhere electronically, sadly this won't help paper copies any.

Got to give the humble spreadsheet some love

Since revit is really just a pretty user interface for a bunch of spreadsheets, here's an article with a few tips to help with excel.  Still no good way to go between the two, but....

Spreadsheet Tips