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Share your favorite tips, tricks and workflows in Revit!

Viveka_CD — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 13:55:47 GMT

Hello Awesome community!

I wanted to make a thread about sharing your favorite tips, tricks, or workflows found within Revit. From hotkey combos to those really essential tools that everyone may not know about, this is the place to share!

I've set the ball rolling below with some simple cool tidbits 'using formulas in fields' that people may not be aware of.

If you have a requirement to reduce the size of an architectural element, maybe a wall which needs to be cut down to half its size - you can use a formula in the 'unconnected height' field, input =20' 0"*.5 and yes the wall's height is reduced by half! Don't forget to use the '=' sign in front of your formula!

Please, share your tips too! Feel free to use images and screencasts!

Best Regards,

Synthesizing Workflow with Revit by Karam Baki | Expert Elite Highlight

Karambaki — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 07:09:32 GMT

Looking to get your creative juices flowing? Join Expert Elite, Karam Baki on his video journey in integrating Revit, Fusion360 and Dynamo to create the infamous Voronoi pattern.

Re: Expert Elite Highlight: Synthesizing Workflow by Karam Baki

Karambaki — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:43:37 GMT

Thanks Autodesk for this, I only shared a thing that I found useful for Architects to improve Revit's ability of designing, instead of just drafting,

Re: Synthesizing Workflow with Revit by Karam Baki | Expert Elite Highiight

dzanta — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:38:25 GMT

Great article and videos...I followed all the YouTube videos you posted...lots of possibilities with this new found understanding of Revit, Dynamo anf Fusion 360...Thanks!

Re: Synthesizing Workflow with Revit by Karam Baki | Expert Elite Highiight

CharlesBerteaux — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:34:47 GMT

this is another great share! keep up the good work buddy!

Re: Synthesizing Workflow with Revit by Karam Baki | Expert Elite Highiight

Karambaki — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:21:48 GMT

Thank you for your comments dzanta and CHBIV007, am glad that you liked it 🙂

Re: Synthesizing Workflow with Revit by Karam Baki | Expert Elite Highiight

wittenb — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:49:39 GMT

Congrats Karam!! What a great workflow. We are proud to have such great Student Experts share their knowledge with the community.

Re: Synthesizing Workflow with Revit by Karam Baki | Expert Elite Highiight

BIMologist_ — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:47:40 GMT

Karam

Masha'Allah awesome job.!

Also if you can fix the hyper link in Exercise 2

https://www.youtube.con>m/watch?v=r_cgeGa1Qmg

when you click there is a > sign and it says page not found.

Thanks

Re: Synthesizing Workflow with Revit by Karam Baki | Expert Elite Highiight

Azmeera.M — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:06:54 GMT

Salam @BIMologist_ - Thank you for pointing out the link error, I have made the correction.
We are very happy that you've enjoyed Karam's article! We value the contributions. Best, Azmeera

Re: Synthesizing Workflow with Revit by Karam Baki | Expert Elite Highiight

Karambaki — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:33:21 GMT

Thank Bjoern (wittenb), am pleased to share knowledge and inspire other Expert Elites and Student Experts around the globe,

And Nauman, thank you for pointing this out,
Glad you liked it, there's also an update to this, am publishing it soon on the Youtube channel, which allow fully manual control in addition to automatic layout of the Voronoi and Delaunay grids, stay tuned for it 🙂

Also thanks Mokhtaa for the correction

All the best,
Karam

Re:Share your favorite tips, tricks and workflows in Revit!

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:05:43 GMT

Hello! Thanks for all the support on the forum, really appreciate it.

I completed my first project(there is always more you can do but...) .

I am reviewing my workflow, how I did things and any way I could be more efficient and effective.

I was making a steel portal frame. For me there were 4 processes.

1. Understanding the brief and drawing every single component out on paper.

2. Making the components as revit families using metric generic models and reference planes

Also doing little things like rotation, void extrusion etc.

3. Fitting in

This was where I had to adjust the familes fitting them together on a project

4. Making it buildable

This was where I added the sections, schedule etc to my work

So far some of the ideas I have had to improve my workflow have been:

+Focus on doing a few main objects accurately and be rough with the others so I can get on to stage number 3 quicker.

+Using less reference planes

+Using the wall feature and roof feature in projects

+Figuring it how to use the beams in projects - but it is not at the right size

I would be grateful for any hints and tips and resources into how I could make any of the four processes faster.

Also find my screencast below where I talk a bit more about the process I went through.

Thank you in advance!

Re: Synthesizing Workflow with Revit by Karam Baki | Expert Elite Highlight

borakin1 — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:05:09 GMT

So good! Thank u.

Re: Share your favorite tips, tricks and workflows in Revit!

barthbradley — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 07:54:59 GMT

Alright Viveka, I’ll help you to get your thread going here with one that always pleases.

Is anybody out there bothered by an ugly Thumbnail Preview for a family they built? Did you know that you can change it quickly and easily?

Here’s how:

Open the family and create the View you’d like to see as the Thumbnail Preview Image. Name that view something snappy like “Thumbnail”, and then…now follow closely; this is the tricky part…open the “Save As: Family” Dialog box, and press the “Options” button in the lower-right corner. This will open the “File Save Options” dialog box. There you will see “Thumbnail Preview” with a “Source” drop-down box listing all the views in the Family. Select the view you just created. Press “OK” and then “Save”. That view is now the Thumbnail Preview Image for that family.

Wicked cool, huh? I know somebody out there thinks it is.

Enjoy!

Revit Dynamo Graph to Align Text or Label with Detail Lines

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 10:41:34 GMT

Hello,

We recently posted an article and Dynamo graph on how to align text or labels with detail lines onto our blog. For those who are interested how to do this you can view it here: Revit Dynamo Graph to Align Text or Label with Detail Lines.

Any feedback is appreciated!

Thanks 🙂

Re: Share your favorite tips, tricks and workflows in Revit!

Sahay_R — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 13:32:44 GMT

My two cents.

1) Anyone frustrated with the fact that Revit only creates sweeps in one direction? Here's what you can do - divide up the curve, create smaller sweeps in individual families, nest into a final family, tweak the assembly. Do remember that the resulting product may not be absolutely precise and applying parameters may not be an option! For anything too complex, 3DS Max may be the best option......

2) The big three of creating complex families - lock to reference planes NOT geometry, nest families, associate parameters.

Re: Share your favorite tips, tricks and workflows in Revit!

Viveka_CD — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 19:15:29 GMT

Hello Community!

I wanted to share this awesome post by @italonge on Dividing a Mass Surface

Here you go:

Set 3 planes to work.

So I draw the lines, Spline, I guess. Place several points. Draw one line then copy and paste it.

Form created!

And move each point from XYZ axes. New mass ... tweak the edges using the edge point ...move X and Y axes to make a rounded line.

Image below with edges moved above and the original points without X and Y axes moved.

I moved others points above, I guess If I had more points it would be easier to reach the form that I wanted... Finally, I divided it and selected the hexagonal pattern. Few distortions but can fine tune them.

Kudos @italonge and thanks for sharing this!

Regards,

Re: Share your favorite tips, tricks and workflows in Revit!

Sahay_R — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:31:46 GMT

Another one. If you have too many Annotation families cluttering up your Project Browser, try nesting similar families into one as Types. Easy-peasy. Less scrolling!

Export from google earth to dwg

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:41:50 GMT

Here is a tutorial to export your level curves (contours) to .DWG format from google earth

exportar sus curvas de nivel al formato .DWG desde google earth

Hoy les traigo un tutorial para que exporten sus curvas de nivel al formato .DWG desde google earth, el cual les va a servir para levantar su terreno en revit .... mas preguntas me las dejan abajo y por favor delen muchos kurdos !!!!

Re: Share your favorite tips, tricks and workflows in Revit!

Radish_G — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:23:54 GMT

Hi @Sahay_R,

Is it possible to share a video, to explains the workflow to achieve this.

Re: Share your favorite tips, tricks and workflows in Revit!

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 02:09:35 GMT

That is a seriously cool trick. Oh the possibilities. I am wondering whether this could be combined with terrestrial laser scanning