How to Set Up A Project in Revit: Using Base Points, Project North, and PDF Underlays
Gert Strydom
One of the first steps in beginning a project in Revit is understanding how to set it up properly. Assuming that you and your team will be spending quite a bit of time with your project model in the future, it's worthwhile to take...
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REVIT 12/15/2021How to Add Rotational Parameters to Revit Families
Pete Heibel
The ability to set rotation parameters for an object in Revit is an important skill to know. It can be useful in all kinds of applications and allows you to add key functionality to a Revit object that doesn't quite reflect the fl...
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REVIT 11/30/2021Christmas Revit Families for Your Holiday Renderings (2021)
BIMsmith
Looking to add a little holiday spirit into your renderings this time of year? BIMsmith's 2021 Collection of Christmas Revit families will help add a little festive charm to your projects. From a delightfully built Revit snowman ...
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REVIT 9/23/2021Revit 2022.1: New Features, Tips, and Tricks in Revit 2022.1
Update: See the BIMsmith review of what’s new in Revit 2023 -- Autodesk announced the official release of Revit 2022.1 this week. The BIMsmith Team has dived in and taken a look at some of the new and exciting features – some o...
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REVIT 7/2/2021Working with Phases in Revit
Phases are a great tool in Revit to filter elements by stages in a project. The obvious phases are Existing and New. If you have worked on renovation projects or an addition to an existing building, I’m sure you know the importanc...
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REVIT 4/6/2021What's New in Revit 2022 – Top New Features in Autodesk Revit 2022
Update: See the BIMsmith review of what’s new in Revit 2023. -- Revit 2022 is here. Yes, we know it's still 2021. But we also know that just as 2020 wasn't that great, we're eager to move on to 2022 as soon as we can. Revit 20...
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REVIT 11/12/2020How to Load a Revit Family Using a Type Catalog
When a Revit family requires a large number of types (often more than 10 +/-), a .txt file can accompany the family with a list of types as well as the corresponding parameter/values needed to populate the types in the Revit Proje...
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