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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? ► 2008.

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Revit OpEd: How Many Worksets Do I Need?

Revit OpEd

Floors Retail. Floors Condos. Floors Rental. Floors Residential. Floors Examination Rooms. Floors Laboratories. FFE NIC (by owner that may be easier to manage alone). There is a little known technique for managing these using worksets when dealing with linked files and their levels and grids.

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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: 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. ► 2008.

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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. ► 2008. at 1:58 PM.

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Revit OpEd: View Discipline

Revit OpEd

When MEP (Systems as it was called then) appeared a year later they extended the concept to Mechanical and Electrical (plumbing lumped in with Mechanical till release 2013). When Mechanical is assigned Revit changes the nature of what plan and reflected plan mean. The concept of View Discipline appeared with Revit Structure.

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Revit OpEd: Extents Greater than 20 Miles

Revit OpEd

The problem with pinning it down is that as soon as I think Ive got it, I change it a little and then Revit doesnt complain about importing the file. Comments: Comments are moderated to manage spamming. Wall Floor Interaction and Linked Models. ► 2008. ► December 2008. (16). ► November 2008. (17).