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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: The Project That Almost Could

Revit Beginners

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: 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. Design Reform. USG Design Studio. Design Reform Videos. Architectural Desktop. Design Build Inst (oct). Instant Section Box.

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Revit Beginners: In-place Cavity Walls

Revit Beginners

We used to complain that CAD drawings looked horrible and now that concept has nearly been forgotten. I used to spend (not hours, not days) weeks fighting wall cleanups in Revit and our designs changed so frequently we needed a quick and clean way to get complete drawings. We design traditional, high-end residential work.

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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. Design Reform.

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Revit Beginners: Callout Annotation Features

Revit Beginners

Select Detail View and draw a callout in plan view. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Design Reform. USG Design Studio. Design Reform Videos. Architectural Desktop. Design Build Inst (oct). Subscribe To.

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