Share your favorite tips, tricks and workflows in Revit!

[Viveka_CD]

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,

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Basam.Yousif

How are you doing? I was just checking back to see if you had a chance to create a new post on Levels.

Looking forward and thank you for participating!

Regards,

[Anonymous]

Great tip!  And now there is a tool that will automate this process for your entire library!  Check out the Preview Image Generator!  (example output below from my library)

 http://bit.ly/2gQXYVy

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Anonymous

Thanks for sharing this tool with the community! 

Regards,

[Anonymous]

I have wanted to do something like this for a while and I had no idea how to do it exactly... Using the point attractor method in Revit do something a lot more fluid that using just one point attractor. And even using multiple points it seemed that the result would always be quite restrictive...

Check this out to see how to create very fluid panel variation with a point attractor method and even better QUITE SIMPLE, anyone could replicate and create their own - I don't use more math than a simple If statement that I explain also in the video:

https://youtu.be/4EcRbVIU-pc

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Anonymous

Thanks for sharing!

Very interesting note and this video you've shared includes a detailed explanation of If statements and the formulas used in the panel with multiple point attractors.

Regards,

[constantin.stroescu]

congratulations!

great tutorials and videos!

Constantin

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @constantin.stroescu

How are you doing? I'm glad to hear from you.

I'm looking forward to more user participation and screencasts from their workflows which can be shared with the community.

Regards,

[constantin.stroescu]

hi @Viveka_CD

Well, I'm just well ,thank you.

I'm working now to make the frame of an internal work standard on using Revit. In the same time I try to increase my knowledge level on using other softwares that can work together with Revit in order to increase the efficiency  of architectural design....and that's why I was just excited when I followed Karam's post on the these subject ...

best regards,

Constantin

[Viveka_CD]

Awesome @constantin.stroescu That's good to know! 

Keep us posted if you have some interesting workflow.

Thanks,

[Viveka_CD]

Hello Community!

Sharing some useful resources:

Webinar links: 

https://pages.autodesk.com/NAMERGettingtoBIM.RevitIntrialWebinarFebruary2018_OnDemandTY.html

Further reading - Free eBook:
- "Building Design: Five ways your move to a BIM workflow pays off in Building Design" https://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/bim-workflow-architecture-and-building-engineering

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Further resources mentioned in the webinar:
Tips to implement Revit:
Slides and Resource Links from the webinar Topic 3: http://bit.ly/2Eug6hF
These are other resources for Implementing Revit in the office: https://www.autodesk.com/redshift/bim-training-tips-for-everyone/

AU Resources:
AR20686: The Day Revit Came into Our Lives—Implementation of Best Practices for Small Offices
http://au.autodesk.com/au-online/classes-on-demand/class-catalog/classes/year-2016/revit-architectur...
AS122955: Guerrilla BIM Implementation: Transition to Revit and Hit the Ground Running: http://au.autodesk.com/au-online/classes-on-demand/class-catalog/classes/year-2017/revit/as122955#ch...
BLD122445: AutoCAD Versus Revit—Common Annotation Tips and Tricks: http://au.autodesk.com/au-online/classes-on-demand/class-catalog/classes/year-2017/class-detail/bld1...

System Requirements for Autodesk Revit 2018 products: http://autode.sk/2nMEpxK
Autodesk support for non-Microsoft networks: http://autode.sk/2ERAxmu
Worksharing Terminology: http://autode.sk/2EOUb2s
Autodesk Collaboration for Revit + BIM 360 Team: http://autode.sk/2BLBu0R
Revit File maintenance best practices: http://autode.sk/2H1ZJrc
Revit: recommended workflows and best practices: http://autode.sk/2Es7Mij
Best practices when linking RVT and DWG files into Revit: http://autode.sk/2ESkWTu

Regards,

[Viveka_CD]

Hi Community!

An updated Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting tutorial from Lynda for you!

[Anonymous]

I found it alarming at how many staff in my current office and generally don't know the Find and Replace text tool under the annotations tab. After 1 session all our documentation text has now been consistent. A useful tool that gets overlooked, especially changing text automatically throughout your whole project with just 2 click. 

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Anonymous

Thanks for the tip!

Here is related information:

• Find and Replace Text in a Text Note
• Find and Replace Text in Worksets
• Find and Replace Text in a Detail Group

Regards,

[Anonymous]

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Regards,

EzyCap Support Team

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Anonymous

Welcome to the Autodesk community!

Thanks for sharing this tool to benefit the community!

Regards,

[Viveka_CD]

Hello Community,

There are often times when we want to see what has changed in different Revit versions of the same 3D model.

Here is a cool tool to Compare differences in different versions of the same 3D model on BIM360

See: Parent topic: About Comparing 2D and 3D Designs

Regards,

[Viveka_CD]

Hello Community! 

Follow this thread for a cool tip to power up your Revit families by @Karambaki

Regards,

[Karambaki]

Thanks a lot @constantin.stroescu, am really glad you liked them, am trying to update all of the workflows in Synthesize, almost everything have been updated, am in a stage of documenting them, will keep you posted 😄 

Thanks @Viveka_CD,  for sharing, 
So many tips and tricks are on the way 😄
Stay tuned community 

[Viveka_CD]

That's awesome @Karambaki

People like you in the community keep this thread alive.Kudos!

Looking forward to your posts!

Regards,

[Anonymous]

Thank you for sharing this tip.