Recapping RTC Europe 2016: A Grand Finale and New Beginning

All things eventually come to an end, especially good things. RTC Europe 2016 just ended this past Saturday. Some of us held on a little longer by staying in Porto over the weekend to enjoy a few more of the many things that the marvelous Portuguese city has to offer. Others are already back home, went to work and started sharing with friends and colleagues the highlights of their learning and experience at the conference.

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Returning Text from Lookup Tables in Revit

Sometimes you want to have a Revit parameter that returns a text string depending on a number of options. For example, you might want to have a parameter show a product SKU code based on other parameter values for dimensions, color and material.

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Clearances in Revit: Worthy of Their Own Subcategory?

Whether you call them clearance zones, clearance areas, access areas, obstruction clearances, overhead clearances…whether you like to see them in red, blue, or patterned…whether you need to make sure that there’s enough room for something to be accessed, opened, ventilate properly, fit properly…modeling the required space around an object is a routine part of using Revit and working with Revit families.

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Renaming Workset1 in Revit Projects

When you enable Worksharing and turn on worksets in a Revit project, Revit offers you two worksets by default – “Shared Levels and Grids” and “Workset1”. Anyone who has managed a Revit project with Worksharing should be familiar with the image seen below.

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A Year (and a half) in Review

One of my New Year’s resolutions has been to get back to blogging. I thought I’d begin making good on that resolution by looking back at what’s kept me away from writing since my last post.

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Parallel Revits

One day I’m working with a family in Revit 2013, and the next I’m time traveling back to Revit 2012. Then the weekend comes, and with it the release of Revit 2014 – the speed, the bliss! Up next is Monday, which calls for a family in Revit 2011. I need a type catalog quickly, and try exporting it right from the family editor. But wait! That couldn’t be done in 2011. So I quickly jump to 2013, open the 2011 family and export its parameters as a type catalog, go back into 2011 and carry on working, now with the type catalog created in 2013. See, type catalogs can travel through time!

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See you at AU this year?

Autodesk University 2012 is upon us! In a little less than a week, Las Vegas will bring together some of the best Revit experts out there today. And as always, it will be a great opportunity to meet and talk with some of them, attend sessions on everything and anything to do with Revit, and generally get a chance to meet new people in the BIM space. Some of those within the #UKBIMCrew will also be attending (always a fun bunch!), and I am happy to report that Chris, David and I will all be attending this year. We will arrive a bit earlier, from the 23rd of November, to get rid of the jetlag before the sessions we have lined up begin.

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