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
When creating Area Plans, you need Area Schemes to manage your Area Types. There are two types of Area Schemes, Rentable and Gross. In short, Rentable is more for calculating interior spaces, where as Gross is the entire building. However, when creating an Area Scheme, Revit does not ask you Read more
If you nest white text into a Generic Annotation family, it will still be black text in the project. The trick is to change one of the RGB numbers to something else like 254. But seriously, why would you need this? Let’s say you have a black background (for Read more
Are you having trouble printing in the correct sheet size even though the sheet size was set in settings and the print setting was saved? For example, you chose ARCH E1 30×42 and it still prints in 8.5×11? The solution is to create a new print set, set the printer Read more
When placing a face-based lighting fixture onto a Work Plane, the light fixture is forced to hang “upward” rather than “downward”. This is because the work plane is facing upward by default and this cannot be changed. Because it’s facing upward, the light fixture family treats the work plane like Read more