A reader (sorry, I lost your email and name!) emailed in and asked about rotating a series of elements by something other than 90 degrees. She referenced...
5 Days ON the Sun: #RTCNA Recap
"It's a dry heat", they say... I don't care what they say... 120 degrees feels HOT with or without humidity.
Two weeks ago I attended my fifth...
Are You Going to be at #RTCNA this Year?!
Revit Technology Conference North America 2016 begins this week! Will you be there?
If you are attending the conference make sure you sign...
The Revit Kid Featured on BIM Thoughts Podcast
After a year or so of "Yeah, we have to do an episode together", Bill, Carla, and I got on a call and chatted a bit! If you have not listened to...
Revit Tutorial - Shed Roof High Eave Detail
Shed roofs are simple to create in Revit but lack a very important ability: creating a square cut perpendicular to your roof at the top of the shed slope....
Photoshop for Architects... What do you think?
I’ve been in the process of examining BIM After Dark - Volume 1 and looking for areas where content could be updated or enhanced (if you haven’t checked...
Revit Tutorial - Understanding Your Roof Eaves / Soffits
In my experience, the roof tool is still a mystery to many Revit users. Either they have only had to create flat roofs, they have been using extrusions,...
V-Ray for Revit : A Case Study
I have been publishing content on this blog for over seven years. Until now, I have never featured a "guest" or "guest post". Sure, there...
My $300 "Revit Server"
I have been looking for a solid solution for small firms to host workshared Revit files for a long time. I experimented with Dropbox, Jungledisk,...
Revit 2017 - My 3 Favorite new Features
As I have stated in the last few releases Autodesk's move to a subscription model makes the "release" of the latest version of Revit less of an event....
Revit Pattern (.pat) Source File - Version 2!
Believe it or not, pattern files are popular. As in, some of the most visited pages on this blog have to do with Revit pattern files. You...
#RTCNA 2016 - Will You Be There?
Phot of a bunch of Revit Bloggers from last years RTCNA...It's that time of the year again! Registration for Revit Technology Conference North America...
Revit Tutorial - Calculating Cut / Fills Using Building Pads
Pablo, my colleague and friend from sunny San Diego, emailed me one day asking about cuts and fills in Revit. This was his email:"Hey I got a question...
Customer Case Study - BIM After Dark: Volume 3
One of the things I actively pursue when developing the BIM After Dark video series is gathering customer feedback. Many of you are happy to take...
BIM After Dark - Volume 3 : We are family!
BIM After Dark - Volume 3 is now available! Now you can finally scrap all of the bad models you’ve downloaded, stop letting what’s available dictate...
Revit Tutorial - Custom Shaker Cabinet Family
I recently wrote about the dangers of not creating your own custom Revit families. More specifically, I used the example of modifying the out of...
The Drafting Workaround...
Yesterday, I published a post that explored the dangers of NOT building custom Revit families. I used the example of out of the box casework families....
I Don’t Have Time to Create Custom Families...
When I think about the least customized elements in a typical Revit project casework, or “millwork”, always comes to mind. It’s true, the out of...
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