The Revit Families Frontier
Earlier this week I was reading a blog post by Steve Stafford on the state of Revit content, specifically content available from Autodesk Seek. The post is framed as a critique of Seek contents’...
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Family Feedback Mechanisms – Part 2
Wouldn’t it be nice if your manufacturer-specific fittings would highlight themselves if they are set outside of the product’s catalog specs? Wouldn’t it be even nicer if they were highlighted without...
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System Parameters Vegas Style – Type or Instance?
Since both Gary and I are here in Las Vegas at Autodesk University, I thought a post with a little bit of “now you see it, now you don’t” magic would be appropriate. In an Electrical Equipment family...
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Nested Families and the Case of Disappearing Connectors
When a family with connectors is nested into another family, the connectors get ‘lost’ in the host family. They have to be recreated in the host to appear in a project. This is the case even if you are...
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A Primer on Materials in Revit 2013
We’ve recently been working on a project involving the creation of custom materials for system families. This gave us a good chance to test out the latest interface and features for materials in the...
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Big Picture Revit Families
We recently finished some retractable projection screen Revit families for Stewart Filmscreen, based in southern California. These are the kind of screens installed in the ceiling of a conference room...
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What’s the Point?
A couple weeks back, I attended a meeting of the London Revit User Group where Paul Fletcher from ZBP and Through Architecture presented Beyond BIM: Cooperation for a sustainable future. Paul seemed to...
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RTC and the best Revit conference you could attend
I’m back from a two-week trip to the US where I attended and presented at RTC (Revit Technology Conference) in Stone Mountain, GA. It was the second North American RTC conference, with last year’s...
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Symbols for Lighting Fixtures Showing in Plan
Back in 2010 I was asked to create a face-based lighting fixture that, when placed on a wall, would display a symbol in plan view. “No problem,” I thought, and happily set out to work on it. Little did...
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See you at AU this year?
Autodesk University 2012 is upon us! In a little less than a week, Las Vegas will bring together some of the best Revit experts out there today. And as always, it will be a great opportunity to meet...
View ArticleRevit 2014 Update 1 Is Out
If you let Revit’s Comm Center access Autodesk you’ll find that there is a Web Update release 1 for 2014 now. Heard already? As you were… — Steve Stafford (@Steve_Stafford) July 18, 2013 Yesterday I...
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Parallel Revits
One day I’m working with a family in Revit 2013, and the next I’m time traveling back to Revit 2012. Then the weekend comes, and with it the release of Revit 2014 – the speed, the bliss! Up next is...
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A Year (and a half) in Review
One of my New Year’s resolutions has been to get back to blogging. I thought I’d begin making good on that resolution by looking back at what’s kept me away from writing since my last post. It’s been...
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Renaming Workset1 in Revit Projects
When you enable Worksharing and turn on worksets in a Revit project, Revit offers you two worksets by default – “Shared Levels and Grids” and “Workset1”. Anyone who has managed a Revit project with...
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Filtering Linked Grids and Levels – Thoughts on Worksets
From an MEP perspective, shared levels and grids from other disciplines are a given. I have gone through different ways of dealing with them. None of them was entirely satisfactory, until recently. The...
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A Primer on Materials in Revit 2013
We’ve recently been working on a project involving the creation of custom materials for system families. This gave us a good chance to test out the latest interface and features for materials in the...
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Revit Families Reunion
It’s been a while since we’ve posted on our blog, and we wanted to fill you in on what we’ve been up to. Some of you may have seen us at RTC Europe last October, which Jose helped organize as a member...
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Clearances in Revit: Worthy of Their Own Subcategory?
Whether you call them clearance zones, clearance areas, access areas, obstruction clearances, overhead clearances…whether you like to see them in red, blue, or patterned…whether you need to make sure...
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Loud and Clear — Revit Family Speakers
Over the last few months, we’ve been working on a slew of loudspeaker and sound system Revit families. Audio equipment isn’t a new area for us, but the recent run of projects has definitely allowed us...
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Ready for Take Off – New Airplane Revit Families Now Available
For years, Andekan has been hired to build world-class Revit families for product manufacturers, design firms, project owners and Autodesk itself. Today, we’re excited to expand our Revit content...
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