Plan views of phases and shading

How to simply differentiate between new and existing using shading and hatches. I want to acheive this

Existing phase shaded grey, new phase shown as hatched layers.






METHOD:- starting with an existing plan showing just existing:

Revit and corner curtain wall joins

I am quite mystified why a simple angle junction between CurtainWall or Storefront is so difficult to get to work cleanly- these methods seem to be common but flawed:

This is what I want!

• Embed ought to be the easiest method as allows simple parameter control of cill and head height. But it doesnt work properly: the intersects don't join as a wall should and you invevitably get a silly stub of parent wall overhanging the "join". And how do you join in a way that Revit doesnt throw up an error?
• Divide and delete the wall corner and then add back parent wall below cill and above head. The curtain wall does join properly but why should you: windows and doors dont require 2 operation cut hole then add in a hosted component!
• There are lots of methods posted but none seemed to satisfactorily do it in one. 

REVIT overriding with view templates

In this example, a schematic electrical layout I wanted to grey out everything other than the electrical content. Also I want to make sure none of the over-rides permeate into other views

I have already set up a number of view templates and then copied one to adapt to the current electrical view. It must all be done with V/G overrides AND NOT Object Styles. Event you this option is within a View Template it is effective over other view templates UNLESS Object Style overrides are made in these which override the override! Why include this in View Templates if it is global and not view specific?

Some complex objects such as doors quite allot of trila and error to be effective across all components of the family

ALSO override Graphics in View - these override view templates SO wherever possible make view overrides using a template otherwise undoing requires manual selecting overriden objects and changing.

Shared parameters on sheets etc

In this example I am setting up a simple parameter on a sheet so that a revision number or scale can be edited as a property. The outofthebox parameters associated with text tags aren't very adaptable to  UK practice and terminology.

Here I want to set up REV No and DATE so that they respond differently to the outofthebox nearest tags.

Revit Browser organisation

Understanding how browser folder categories and filters work - see
http://revitscratchpad.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/custom-view-sheet-folders.html
Also Paul Aubins blog post  http://bit.ly/1dBn7Ev

Quick procedure

Set PROJECT PARAMETER "folder" -

Wordpress privacy settings

Wordpress v3.5.1 doesnt have privacy settings of previous versions (but the worpress site hosted version does. Only option is to turn off search engine indexing (Settings>reading).





Easy fix - get the plugin More privacy options from Wordpress (http://wordpress.org/plugins/more-privacy-options/). Upload by FTP to WP-content/plugins then activate from the Worpress dashboard