Deleting rooms

How to get rid of that long list of "Not Placed" rooms resulting from placing rooms then deleting as the model changes.
Deleting from Views removes them from that view but they still exist in the project database.

To remove from this db fire up a schedule (if necessary create one in Proj Browser>Schedules>New

Select "Show" (ribbon tab to right) - make sure fields are set to show "name". Simply delete table lines. Make sure to check each phase (Props>Phase) to locate all the unplaced rooms.
Thats it - gone.

Hack view title

The outofthebox system family anno_view_title  has 4 types for title / without line / without detail ref / det ref with line etc but no option to zap the scale other than no title.

What if you want the title and no scale ( say for an inserted image dragged in from a drafting view )?

In Project Browser > Families > Anno_View_Title I edited (RC>Edit) and saved this as Anno_View_Title_custom. To show changes I changed the scale tag to a "phase" tag just to track the changes on project sheets. Load this into the project.

Titles 1 and 2 before

Hide Section Markers based on View Scale

To show only Section Markers on a 1:100 key plan that relate to 1:50 scale section views

Objects non-selectable for no apparent reason

This object (which was a family type hosted onto floor slab representing a pertrol (gas) station forecourt mysteriously became non-selectable 

Curved Curtain Wall

Creating truly curved wall -

Start with a basic wall type consisting single sheet 6mm glass

Leader without text

Revitoped tip how to blank the text characters using a unicode U+200B
 http://bit.ly/1lk1Rqn
Open the Character Map  system, copy clip and paste into the leader text box  (Start button type in CHARMAP

REVIT COMPOUND ROOFS

1. Put a roof on walls (Roof by Footprint)- turn off all slopes (select edges and uncheck on Options Bar)
2. In plan put on RP's for slope change points
3. Pick the roof and use shape editing to add split lines

Wordpress 3.9 update editor not working

New version just out 2 days ago (16/04/14 I think) and I update one of my sites straightaway.

Looks like lots of users are reporting the same issue of update - both the visual and text editors are greyed out and completely inaccessible

Quite a few posts yesterday on this and most useful fix I found is http://bit.ly/1pfBFp5

Revit using split wall in phases

One of  Revits drawbacks is the difficultly and intricacy in phasing partial demolition and additions / reconstruction of existing small and residential buildings. Particularly where the existing model elements such as walls and roofs are neatly joined up and trimmed and you dont want to loose this. The existing phase needs to show correctly after new phases have been added and parts demolished.

Link to Hatch Hacks - What Revit Wants

Great post on What Revit Wants gettiing further beyond the rather basic and limited out of the box hatch patterns in Revit     http://bit.ly/1eC6CwQ

Transfering mullions between projects

Picked this method up http://bit.ly/1gzx5t1 from Revit Forum Revit doesnt allow curtain wall elements to be pasted between projects to quickly inherit the system family properties and this seems a good although complex workaround. I adapted for a quick import of mullion types by just setting up a duplicate CW type and added all the mullion types I wanted to the available fields, then a straightforward PST.

How to transfer and overwrite curtain wall mullions between projects (yes it works)

This is also posted on AUGI 2014 How to transfer and overwrite curtain wall mullions between projects (yes it works)

I've been tasked with finding a way of cleaning up mullions in a hospital campus project with one project file per building, and a master file

Not Revit! Updating attributes in drawing sheets in Autocad

I dont use Autocad Architecture much these days but its moved on with even more complexity in commands. My drawing sheets which were set up some years ago with a full set of attributes to enter all the project variables needed some updating with an addtional "status" variable. I remebered how to use Attdef in the sheet block but save it and return to the sheet the new attribute wasnt there.


The fix came with a bit a searching and its run the command attsync and just select the block (ie drawing sheet) and "yes". Why does it need to be so complicated! About half an hour to fix this!  Thought Revit Project Params and getting sheet params to work was quite a handful but having to sync one block (not the project) manually seems bizare.

Windows passwords

I have a laptop with Windows Vista that hasnt been used for over a year and the Administrator password was lost.  I tried Offcrack which uses a Linux type boot disk and then analyses password tables to reveal them.  Several attempts and could not locate tables and looked for something else to try.

Next off was PC Login Now http://bit.ly/MEaORP. Really simple to make an ISO image boot disk and boot from this - the password accounts are revealed and just select them one by one and delete.
Boot normally and disk check will have to run before Windows loads. Then should be able to login to the Adminstrator account without a password. Took about half an hour. Windows security?

Revit door and window families with splayed jambs/surrounds

I needed to make up some door and window families with splayed jambs typical in northern UK 19thC and earlier traditional vernacular