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Revit Beginners: Stepped Foundation Plans

Revit Beginners

Stepped Foundation Plans. We often have split level projects and weve had a lot of trouble isolating the stem walls and footings from the rest of the model for use in a foundation plan. Go to your foundation floor plan and type VG. We design traditional, high-end residential work. ArchiCAD vs Revit. came along.

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Revit Beginners: Surveys and Site Plans

Revit Beginners

Surveys and Site Plans. Now lets say youve developed your site plan (with linked survey) and you want to export the data (including survey) back to DWG format. The survey needs to be a part of the Revit model or Revit wont consider it when exporting your site plan to DWG. We design traditional, high-end residential work.

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Revit Beginners: Remodels in Revit. the untold story

Revit Beginners

Anyone who has developed a custom remodel residential project can tell you its not as simple, clean, or intuitive as a custom new construction residential project. Plans require additional cleanup, but this approach reduces the frequency and types of cleanups required, particularly obvious when you move on to elevations and sections.

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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. We design traditional, high-end residential work. ArchiCAD vs Revit. An ArchiCAD Blogger. Instant Section Box. Go to any 3D view. Go to View. To Other View. David Duarte. at 12:22 AM. Subscribe To.

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Revit Beginners: When is a Family Parametric?

Revit Beginners

A placeholder is a family that has just enough geometry to illustrate the component in your plans, elevations, and sections. We design traditional, high-end residential work. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Question: So what do I do with highly complex and custom families that will likely change from week to week? David Duarte. at 4:26 PM.

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Revit Beginners: Revit 2010: New Spot Slopes

Revit Beginners

and you might notice that Revit has a new slope annotation that works in plan and elevation view. We design traditional, high-end residential work. ArchiCAD vs Revit. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Thursday, April 16, 2009.

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Revit Beginners: View Range & Visibility Lessons

Revit Beginners

Interior elevation tags from the first floor plan were mysteriously showing up on the second floor plan. Thats because if the top of the crop region for an interior elevation view intersects the primary range (bottom clip plane) of the floor plan above, then the interior elevation symbol will show in the floor plan above.

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