New categories in Revit 2022 are: Food Service Equipment. Medical Equipment. Fire Protection. Vertical Circulation. Audio Visual Devices. Signage. Hardscape. Temporary Structures. This means if you’re managing a Revit Template in version 2021 or before, and you have specific categories turned off for certain view templates, then these categories 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
In Revit, there are several family categories that families belong to and sometimes it can be confusing which the correct category should be. Specifying the correct category is important because there are built-in Revit functions associated with those categories to make the families work as intended. What’s annoying is that 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
The following steps are considered the fasted way to get into a blank Revit project. This is especially useful for getting into Dynamo, test families, create test models, use a temporary model for transferring families and cleaning before transferring to the project model, and more. Go to File > New 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
Check out free Revit plugins by DiRoots to boost your Revit productivity. Simply download their DiRootsOne app Manager and install. Point Kit Boost your productivity when working with point clouds. Sheet Link Synchronize your model data with Excel spreadsheets. FamilyReviser Export, rename, organize your families. Manage worksets and assign worksets Read more
In Revit 2022 and later, you can filter by Family and Type in schedules. This is one of a few god send updates by Autodesk in the latest versions of Revit. Before Revit 2022, it was always a pain in the butt to filter a specific family within a category. Read more
Whenever you detach a model and save it in another location as a new central model, make sure to remember to sync “User-created Worksets”. If you forget to do this crucial step, other users cannot make edits to the model. As a rule-of-thumb, always check all boxes available to relinquish Read more