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Cairo & the Built Environment: Past, Present, and Future

Civil + Structural Engineer

By Luke Carothers A Land in Transition Egypt as a place is no stranger to the change that marches hand-in-hand with the progress of time. The legacy of time and change can still be felt throughout Cairo’s built environment. When completed, this will be the longest driverless monorail system in the world.

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Revit OpEd: Measure Between Two References

Revit OpEd

Not much of a catch but there is no equivalent floor in this case. If there was a floor there Id just check the properties of the floor. you could sketch your own a floor around the perimeter pretty quickly. For my money, Id probably favor a floor. Steve - Have you considered mass floors? ► 2007. (77).

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Revit OpEd: Layer Function Setting

Revit OpEd

System families have a Function setting. Thats true for Walls, Floor, Roofs and Ceilings. If changed I suspect people would have less trouble deciding which function is appropriate. It cannot be that difficult of change to make for Autodesk either. What you are suggesting is a much bigger change. Labels: Dept.

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Revit OpEd: View Discipline

Revit OpEd

The concept of View Discipline appeared with Revit Structure. It was meant to make it simple to alter the appearance of our model to be more in sync with what a structural engineer wants to see. When Mechanical is assigned Revit changes the nature of what plan and reflected plan mean. They wont with Architecture.

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Revit OpEd: Revit 2013 - View Types

Revit OpEd

This means you can create your own versions of floor plans according to discipline or perhaps design phase. Further, views can be tied to view templates and have changes to a view template take effect immediately in a view or many views. Comments: Comments are moderated to manage spamming. Tuesday, May 15, 2012. at 1:58 PM.

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Revit OpEd: A Small Collection of Family Editor Advice

Revit OpEd

Change the scale of the view to make it easier to constrain, select geometry. Dont include parameters in families that dont change geometry, instead put them in project templates and apply them to the categories they affect. On a somewhat related note, is there a way to change or get rid of added object styles in a parent family?

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Revit OpEd: Wishlist - Families and Hide at Scales Coarser Than

Revit OpEd

It makes it easier to keep certain sections (details/wall sections) and elevations (interior) off of overall floor plan views for example. Related to this is the notion that there are representations that wed like to control for floor plan orientation and offer a different appear for the reflected ceiling plan (RCP) version.