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