When we place a Revit view into a sheet, we will always see the view title placed at the bottom of the view. Some of us can be annoyed by this view title, especially when we have only one view in our sheet. When we have only one sheet, maybe we only want to show [...]
Using Revit View Templates
August 31, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Creating Realistic Light Bulb in Revit Architecture
August 22, 2010 by 2 Comments
Creating Complex Roof in Revit
June 1, 2010 by 3 Comments
I had this question: how can I control the a complex roof in Revit? Something similar like below. The roof doesn’t look pretty, the roof edges don’t meet at expected point. The problem that cause this is Revit attempt to create slopes from each edges. The meeting point might not where we expect it should [...]
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 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 [...]
How to: Set Local Help File as Default in 2011 Version
April 23, 2010 by 1 Comment
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 [...]
Rotating Revit Views
April 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
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