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Cycling Through Revit Shortcuts
May 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I found something interesting when exploring my shortcuts in Revit today. It is something basic, but I missed it until today. Probably it will be useful for you. Revit has shortcuts too. If you place your pointer above a tool icon, the tool tip will show you the shortcut. If any. The wall tool shortcut [...]
Revit 2011: Some Small Enhancements
May 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
There are some more nice enhancements in Revit Architecture 2011. Before we continue to some considerable major enhancements, let us see some small enhancements that we can see in Revit Architecture 2011. Temporary Dimension Temporary dimension is the dimensions that appear when you select an object. This dimension allows you to define the object distance [...]
Revit Architecture 2011: View Controls Enhancements
May 10, 2010 By 2 Comments
After we discussed the interface enhancements in Revit 2011, now we move further. There are some new settings and tools in Revit view controls. Let us see the enhancements in view controls. Visual Styles When you see the visual styles options, you will see two new visual styles: consistent colors and realistic. If you see [...]
Revit Architecture 2011: Interface Enhancements
May 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Revit Architecture 2011 has been released. I know I’m a bit late to cover this, but I hope this is still useful for you. There are many good enhancements in this new release. I’m quite impressed with the development by Autodesk team. I will cover them in separate posts. In this post, I would like [...]
Revit Section Line Disappear in Large Scales
May 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I had this question: “Why when I created a section in 1:100 view scale, then I change the scale to 1:500, the section line disappear? But if I create the section line in 1:500 view scale, I can see the section line…” Revit has many properties to control object appearance and visibility. This is a [...]
Managing Design Option in Revit
April 28, 2010 By 3 Comments
One thing that you will always have during design: to have design alternatives or design options. Every project owner and every designer will want to see some alternatives. How the building will looks like in plan, section, and 3D model. So how we do that in Revit? Do we have to save our design to [...]
How to: Set Local Help File as Default in 2011 Version
April 23, 2010 By 2 Comments
There are many enhancements and changes in the new features of AutoCAD and Revit. One of them is the online help documentation. By default, the 2011 product line will attempt to open help file from Autodesk server. Wow! I can’t imagine how many users are using it at a time! The reason why Autodesk do [...]
