I mentioned in a post last week about Alan Wooldridge’s request for help in getting Revit Structure 2012 UK localisation back into the package. Scott Grant, from Excitech, has tweeted about a fix involving “a quick W7 registry edit”. He warns that a reinstall will be needed.
Revit is a Database! A Brief Post About Shared Parameters
Excitech Spring Users Forum and a New Fabrication Tool for Revit MEP
Yesterday I attended the MEP track of Excitech’s Spring User Forums. It’s possibly one of the best such gatherings I’ve attended. All the talks were interesting in their own right and together they did a great job covering the key needs, goals, and recent developments for Revit MEP users.
Using an Offset Parameter to Avoid Overlapping Plan Symbols
I’ve been wanting to write about a technique I used recently while working on some families that allows for the symbols nested in them to be moved around independently of the modeled family. I learned about the process from R. Robert Bell, who explains the problem-solution as follows:
First Look at a New Standard for Food Service Equipment
Last week I found out about a standards project for foodservice equipment Revit families. Having just completed a couple food service equipment families for a customer, I thought it would be good to dig into the standard and see if I could apply it in the future. I checked out their Foodservice Industry Revit Task Force and began reading their published standard for foodservice equipment families. The standard looks like a great first step and one I hope other industry groups will follow. It builds on top of Autodesk’s Revit Model Content Style Guide available through Seek, which is a good place to start. As I reflected on the food service families I’d just delivered, however, I found a few areas that I think miss the mark when it comes to manufacturer-sponsored content. I thought I’d share those here as I think they could apply to many other industries as well.
A Glass of Orange Juice
This week I worked on a project that brought back memories of my homeland. I created two families, an orange juicer from Zumex and a refrigeration display from Imbera. Being from Spain, it was nice to create a family for a local product. The Zumex is a juicer that you’ll see in just about any bar or café there.
Changing of the Andy: Updates on Andekan’s Human Revit Family
Last week, we issued our third release of “Andy”, Andekan’s fully parametric human Revit family. The announcement and link was sent out to anyone who signed up to receive Andy on our Meet Andy page. For those of you that were on the list but haven’t yet downloaded, you still have until the end of today to get your copy! 
Materials Display Standards
Below there are two images I included in a recent blog post. Do you know those photo hunt games they have in bars? Well then, can you spot the difference?