CAD Notes

Sketching in Revit is quite different with drafting in AutoCAD. It can be very tricky. In this article, we will explore some tricks we can use for sketching. There are many tools that require you to create sketch: railing path, floor boundary, ceiling, detailing and drafting, creating families, etc. You need to sketch! In this tutorial, we are going to use roof as example. For other tools, it might be slightly different. But the concept should be … Read entire article »

Using shortcut is always favorite way to speed up when working with applications. Including when working with Revit. Since now Revit is using ribbon, we can use ribbon shortcuts. You can see that even ribbon shortcut is cool, it requires us to press more buttons. We can use shortcuts for most Revit tools with ribbon, but the native Revit shortcut is better for commonly used tools. Native Revit shortcut just require 2 keyboard buttons. Ribbon shortcut? … Read entire article »

After we have finished creating a 3D model, then it is natural if we need to represent it in a nice photorealistic rendering image. We can do that in Revit, and we don’t need to be a master to produce a nice rendered image. Revit is included with mental ray rendering. It might not be the same with other rendering application you know. It’s much simpler. It is simplified for architects. We are doing … Read entire article »

You have created door schedule before. Remember that now we have the ‘total cost’ column next to the count column? Sometimes we do want people who read this schedule know how much each unit costs. Not just the total. How can we show the unit cost and total cost together? Right click in your schedule view, click view properties from context menu. This is where you can add a field to your schedule. But there is no … Read entire article »