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Revit Beginners: The Project That Almost Could

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The task was to demolish a 1980s addition, restoring the building to its original design, and then adding our own additions. To add to the complexity, the as-built drawings we had on file were not accurate to the true construction of the existing structure because the original architect had improvised the design during construction.

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Revit Beginners: In-place Cavity Walls

Revit Beginners

First off (before you get upset at my comments) You guys are doing great work for Revit and BIM!!! I completely understand the desire to replicate your graphic standards and the like but in-place families mostly detract from a BIM, rather than add to them. especially as documents became a secondary deliverable to the coordinated BIM.

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Revit Beginners: Revit 2010: New Coordinates Icons

Revit Beginners

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. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. We design traditional, high-end residential work. National BIM Standards.

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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: Often Overlooked By Beginners (Part 2)

Revit Beginners

If you are drawing a wall or a line there is a pallet of line shapes that you can draw (square, polygon, circle, arc, etc.) For Walls Height/Facade, you may use "Edit Profile" to make certain design. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. National BIM Standards. BIM & BEAM.

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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. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara.

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Revit Beginners: Instant Section Box

Revit Beginners

While in plan view draw a floor plan callout. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. We design traditional, high-end residential work. National BIM Standards. GSA BIM Resource. BIM & BEAM. BIM Videos. Design Reform. USG Design Studio. All Things BIM.

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