CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
If you have rendered your model with artificial lights in Revit, you probably have seen that the result can be ‘not so realistic’. We don’t see the light bulbs glowing. We can see the lights, but it looks all wrong… where is the light came from? To create a ‘glowing’ light bulb, you need to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In the last Revit tutorial, we have learned how to split Revit views. We are still discussing about view. In this post, we will discuss how to rotate Revit views. Why would we want to do that? As you see in our last model, the west wing is not parallel to the horizontal axis. There [...]
In this post, I will share some tips to control your views for large models. This is a question from my other forum (a local forum in Indonesia). Let’s see what this guy wants to do. Duplicating View When you work with quite a large model, and the model is not fit to a single [...]
In the last Revit tutorial, we have discussed how the workaround to create a siding wall, in 3D. That was probably a cool way to do it. However, when you design a complex building, you probably want to avoid too many 3D objects. Especially if your workstation can’t handle a large model. This is an [...]
