Revit’s 3D view centers around the object that is selected. To get a better angle, select an object, or group of objects, and then use the middle-mouse-button + shift to rotate around the object or the center of all objects selected.
Using schedules to find elements You can use schedules to find elements in your model. Select a row in the schedule. Click “Highlight in Model” But what happens if Revit can’t find the element at first? Revit pops up a dialog which asks if you would like to search the Read more
How to clear BIM360 Cache Files Autodesk’s knowledge base lists steps on how to clear your BIM360 cloud cache files. See link at the bottom of this post. Here’s what you can do instead to speed up the steps. Go to your cache by copying and pasting this link into Read more
When Revit projects require clash detection, models need to be exported to NWC format. But where is the NWC export button? The NWC export button shows up in your menu when Navisworks has been installed on your computer. So what do you do if you don’t have Navisworks bundled in 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
Have you ever wanted to change the category which a shared parameter was organized under but no matter what you did the shared parameter would remain “stuck”? This often happens when custom shared parameters have somehow moved to a category that didn’t make any sense and now you wanted to Read more
Are you looking for a way to transfer or copy legends from one Revit model to another? Ever wondered why Revit out-of-the-box does not support transferring or copying legends? The work around is to download a free plugin called Transfer Legends from the Autodesk App Store to transfer legends from Read more
Once in a while, Revit’s project browser may suffer a glitch and render the project browser frozen & unusable like the snapshot below. These occurrences are considered rare, but annoying. There are actually a few other similar graphical errors but all similarly cause the project browser or properties to be Read more
Shared Coordinates How To: Scenario 2 This article demonstrates how to set up shared coordinates in a model that is already in progress, but needs to be realigned to the established Shared Coordinate System (SCS). In general, you will likely find yourself in this scenario more often than Scenario 1. Read more
This article will show you how to set up Shared Coordinates for a Revit Model. When setting up coordinates, there are two scenarios you may find yourself in. Scenario 1: You are starting a fresh Revit Model by creating a New Project or a new model based on a Revit Read more