Friday, 24 October 2014

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


Tuesday, 16 September 2014

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

Thursday, 11 September 2014

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 

Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Curved Curtain Wall



Creating truly curved wall -

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








Saturday, 14 June 2014

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

Tuesday, 13 May 2014

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