Repost: David Light's Revit: Revit 2015 – sketchy lines

Revit : Revit 2015 – sketchy lines: Sometimes when using BIM for presentation purposes, especially during the design development stages, the digital outputs can look a little t...

Paul Aubin Blog Repost: Text lists in Revit

Text lists in Revit

Revit OpEd: Space Naming still a Utility

Revit OpEd: Space Naming still a Utility: Yes, sadly the Space Naming Utility for Revit MEP 2015 is STILL a utility, as in a separate download AND installation from the Subscription ...

Revit OpEd: Viewport Title Line

Revit OpEd: Viewport Title Line: The line that appears along with a Viewport, when you place a view on a sheet, is a property of each viewport type. You get to decide whethe...

Navisworks File Types

Navisworks has three native file types and it can be confusing as to what file type to utilize.

NWD: This file type contains all model geometry, review markups, viewpoints, etc are stored in the file. All NWD files are static, meaning they never change since there are no links to external files. .NWD files are typically the file type that is used to share models with other project participants..
NWF (Navisworks File Set): This file type contains references to all the linked project files, as well as review markups. This is typically your master model file and where you link in all other models that pertain to your project. No model geometry is saved in the NWF, resulting in a small file size.

NWC (Navisworks Cache File): When you open, merge or append a file create in another program like AutoCAD or Revit into Navisworks, a cache file created in the same directory as the original native file. The next time that you open that same model, it will load much faster since it is now reading the information from the Navisworks cache file rather than the model itself. If the original model file isn’t newer than the cache file, it will re-cache and replace the older one. This process occurs for each file Navisworks opens or merges natively.

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“100 Fabulous Freebies for CAD Users”

                                                      
Free Guide from the Editors of Cadalyst

“100 Fabulous Freebies for CAD Users”

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Dear Reader:

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Transfer Filters from one project to another

Since I have not been posting a lot of original content recently, I thought I would post some of the questions I get a work.

Question: "How do I transfer Filter settings from one project to another?" Below is an example of some Filters that a team might want to transfer from one project to another.

Answer: If you want to just transfer the project filters from one project to another, you can use the 'Transfer Project Standards" button that can be found in the Manage tab in the Settings panel.

This will allow you can transfer the Filter, but it only transfers the object selection criteria. The individual view settings, don't get transferred.

To transfer the object selection criteria and the view settings, you need to create view templates that contain your filters as well as the override settings. You can then transfer view templates from one project to another and apply the view templates to the views.

If you are always using the same filter settings in specific views, then creating those filters and view templates in your project template(s) will save time and energy down the road.

Revit OpEd: Finding and Loading Content

This is a really great post. Sometimes we often overlook the simple solutions in favor of more complex and expensive solutions.



Revit OpEd: Finding and Loading Content: Dan Stine wrote the other day, more sharing somewhat related to your post… Finding content: staff often call me asking if we have a “this...

Revit Journal File

Did you know that Revit has a lot in common with the NSA?

Revit tracks a lot of the moves that you make within the software. One of the reasons Revit does this is to track down issues when a model crashes. This information is stored in the Journal file.
One other thing you can try to do with Journal files is re-trace your actions. Say you are working in Revit and 20 minutes after your last sync to central, Revit crashes, in therory you could grab the journal file and \ drag the journal file onto the Revit shortcut on your desktop. Revit will open and run the journal file opening the file you were working on and running repeating your previous actions like a macro of script.

In theory this works, in practice its not that simple. But it is possible. Many of the Revit benchmark tools that are available use a journal file to time and record a series of tasks. Using a Journal file to restore lost work is more luck than anything else.

You can also use the Journal file to see what work has been done and it is something that is done to diagnose why Revit might be crashing.

In Winows 7, the Journal file can be found at:  %LOCALAPPDATA%\Autodesk\Revit\\Journals