by Tim Alatorre
In May I published my picks for Best Revit Blogs on the Web. Coming in at number 2 was The Revit Kid and Jeff’s Lock Noob Classic Thong. I still try to read everything Jeff writes but I thought I might stir up a little controversy and make the argument that, contrary to what the…
by Tim Alatorre
Posted on December 14, 2009
BIM Management, Revit, Revit Families, Revit Formulas, tips, tutorial
As I mentioned in a follow up comment to Revit Families 103 – Formula Basics, Revit still doesn’t allow you to do data validation on values or formulas in families or on table data. Still, you can build some functionality into your families to ensure that a value never exceeds a specified range or create warnings for the user of your…
by Tim Alatorre
Posted on October 21, 2009
Revit, Revit 2010, Revit 2011, Revit 2012, Revit Families, tips
Update: 4/12/11 for Revit 2012 and added more examples. I love formulas, they let you do some really fun things. The formula I mentioned in my last post calculates the overall width of a family taking into account if the family has one or two loops toggled to be visible. Formulas let you create…
by Tim Alatorre
I started a post a couple weeks ago on tips for creating families in Revit but I didn’t get very far. Our friends over at Inside the Factory are more disciplined bloggers than I and beat me to it. Erik Egbertson put together a great post of Family Editor Tips. He talks about flexing a family, placing…
by Tim Alatorre
Posted on September 3, 2009
Comments Off on Revit Tip: Easy Wall Poche
This is the first of what is hopefully many more Revit Tips to come. Something that I’ve seen in some projects I’ve worked on lately is using filled regions to poché walls and floors in section views. DON’T DO THIS! Besides taking a large amount of time to initially create, filled regions are not going to…