by Tim Alatorre
Posted on April 14, 2011
Revit, Revit 2010, Revit 2011, Revit 2012, Revit Families, Revit Formulas, Trigonometry
Comments Off on Revit Families 104 – Trigonometry for Right Triangles
Many times when working with Revit Formula in family creation you will want to work with right triangles. The following is meant as a handy reference for you to make working with right triangles a little easier.
by Tim Alatorre
Posted on April 13, 2011
Revit, Revit 2010, Revit 2011, Revit 2012, Revit Families, Revit Formulas
As discussed in “Revit Families 103 – Formula Basics” there is no native function in Revit for Greater Than or Equal to (>=) and it’s brother Less Than or Equal to (<=). That’s no problem. With the basic conditional statements we can recreate them. Greater Than or Equal to (>=) What we want to…
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…