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Revit Beginners: Instant Section Box

Revit Beginners

While in plan view draw a floor plan callout. and select your floor plan callout from the list of views. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Revit Zone. An ArchiCAD Blogger. Instant Section Box. Scott Brown posted this on Zoogdesign ages ago but I thought it was pretty useful so Ill post it. Go to any 3D view.

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Revit Beginners: Callout Annotation Features

Revit Beginners

Youll notice you can select a Floor Plan or Detail View callout. Select Detail View and draw a callout in plan view. Now place a building section in plan view that intersects the callout region. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Revit Zone. Select the callout and goto its properties. Change it to "Intersecting views."

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Revit Beginners: Sort by Submittal Package

Revit Beginners

Quite often we need to organize our plots for different submittal package sets (Schematic Design Presentation, Land Use Permit, Plan Check, Construction Admin, etc). We decided that we also wanted to be able to sort the sheets in our project browser (and our drawing lists) by Submittal Package. and check the category Drawing Sheets.

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Revit Beginners: Edit Cut Profile Tool

Revit Beginners

Draw a wall in plan view. Select the wall in plan view. This tool works in Plan, Section, and RCP views. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Revit Zone. Do you want a niche cut out of your wall for a soap dish or other amenity? Goto Tools. Edit Cut Profile. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. CAD Digest.

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Revit Beginners: Revit 2010: New Coordinates Icons

Revit Beginners

Go to a floor plan view and hit the light bulb to reveal the two new coordinate system icons (the survey point triangle and the project base point circle). you can draw a simple building and link in a simple building (by shared coordinates) and move these two icons around a bit (clipped and unclipped) to see how the two models react or.

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Revit Beginners: Utility Lines Workaround

Revit Beginners

This workaround involves drawing a repeating detail line (with imported text) on top of a simple detail line. Now draw a detail line in any view of your project. Draw your repeating detail over your new detail line as though tracing the detail line. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Revit Zone. Surveys and Site Plans.

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Revit Beginners: In-place Cavity Walls

Revit Beginners

This wall is the sum of two 9 tall extruded shapes in plan view. We used to complain that CAD drawings looked horrible and now that concept has nearly been forgotten. When, at first, we relied heavily on Revit's wall cleanup capabilities our contractors thought we were stupid cause we couldn't draw. ArchiCAD vs Revit.

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