Revit users often prefer that everyone works in Revit. This allows coordination to be smooth and seamless when everyone’s using the same software. However, more often than not, software coordination is overlooked, not specified, glazed over in meetings, especially for smaller projects. Project Managers tend to skip technical small talk Read more
The first time you open Revit, you will encounter this pop-up. Here’s a recommendation, just click the “Don’t show this message again” and click OK. Problem solved. What does it even mean? The pop-up is notifying you that you will be creating and opening a “local copy” of the central Read more
What’s better? Floating, Face-hosted, or Hosted families? Answer: Floating is superior. Face-hosted is only great for wall types, but even then model management for face-hosted families is a nightmare. Great for when they are first placed, horrific for making changes down the road. The benefit for moving whenever walls, floors, Read more
BIM 360’s “Last Updated” and “Updated By” columns are not reliable. Why though? The “Last Updated” date is modified whenever the file undergoes actions such as publishing, renaming, moving, copying (the pasted file reflects the date of pasting), or when a description is added. Essentially, any alteration to the file Read more
Your print settings may automatically switch to “Create separate files…” forcing you reselect “Combine… into a single file”. This is an annoying user experience, and is still an issue in Revit 2024. This issue happens in the print dialogue box after selecting “Selected views/sheets”, demonstrated below in a few screenshots. Read more
All of Autodesk’s OOTB Revit Library content are available online for download. In versions Revit 2023 and later, after clicking “Load Family”, a file conveniently points to the Autodesk website where the content can be found online, and it also mentions the new “Load Autodesk Family” tool. The new “Load Read more
This post may seem unnecessary. But unfortunately, it’s necessary. Floor plans should be created using the “Floor Plan” function in Revit. This is the standard modeling practice in the industry. Floor Plans allow for Rooms to be place on these views which is a 3-dimensional element in Revit. When elevations Read more
Autodesk is moving to a new platform called Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), which is the latest version of BIM360. You may have noticed this difference yourself if you were added to a project recently and the look of the entire interface was different, the most obvious being the black stripe Read more
The title speaks for itself. But it wouldn’t justify without a story. It’s 2022, and I was working with a Revit office that confidently stated they don’t use Revit schedules because schedules have caused major issues between engineers and project managers. Since the schedules were locked in Revit, the project Read more
It has been long rumored that odd-year versions of Revit (ie. 2017, 2019, 2021, etc.) are more unstable than even-year versions. This is due to the history of new features being introduced in odd years and flushed out before they are stabilized in even years. Hence the preference to use Read more