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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

After creating your 3D model in Revit, of course you want to show off your model. Why not? It’s easy. You may already have several cameras in your project right now! In this post, we will discuss about placing and fine tuning our camera. And we will also discuss how to create a 3D section [...]

I have wrote about creating new levels in Revit. It’s fine if you only have several levels. But what if you have 20 levels? or may be 50? Drawing each level in elevation view would be ridiculous. Even by picking lines it would be a tedious task. Why not create them using array? We know [...]