Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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About this Course

In this series, we have a little something for every Revit designer beginners and seasoned users alike!

Each video focuses on a specific tip, trick, or troubleshooting technique for the most recent version of Revit.

 

Do you import CAD files and want to achieve consistency?

Want to get more from your dimensions?

Need to check all of the views in a project and see if the settings are correct?

Want to consistently configure crop boxes across the entire project?

What about getting all the parameters in your family content in just the right order?

 

These are just some of the topics in store. With this course, you are sure to find something useful to add to your growing arsenal of Revit tools and techniques.

 

Contents

 

Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

  1. Layering viewports on a sheet
  2. Underpinning walls to a ceiling
  3. Ceiling soffit tip
  4. Creating similar and matched type
  5. Array tips
  6. Using slope arrows
  7. Cutaway 3D views
  8. Rotating True North
  9. Reveal Constraints
  10. Excluding group members
  11. Duplicating and swapping groups
  12. Converting a group to a link
  13. Equality dimensions anchor point
  14. Dimension equality formulas
  15. Customizing Revit options
  16. Turning on design options in Revit LT
  17. Using a scope box to set datum extents
  18. Setting up dependent views
  19. Creating a custom browser organization
  20. Customizing grid appearance
  21. Customizing level appearance
  22. Managing dimension lines
  23. Dimensioning alternate units
  24. Chase examples
  25. Importing CAD files lineweights
  26. Exploding and cleaning up a CAD file
  27. Customizing room tag positions
  28. How to move a central file
  29. Locking a workset
  30. Using a schedule to edit the model
  31. Creating a custom schedule property
  32. Creating custom view types
  33. Putting view templates in control of your views
  34. Overlooked options on the Option Bar
  35. Sheet management
  36. Sheet sorting
  37. Revisions on sheets
  38. Sharing materials libraries
  39. Adding a calculated value
  40. Adding conditional formatting
  41. Copying schedules between projects
  42. Making temporary Hide/Isolate permanent
  43. Using filters
  44. Seed families
  45. Viewing list schedule
  46. Controlling nested families parametrically with the <family types> parameter
  47. Understanding shared families
  48. Managing family parameters
  49. Line-based families for complex linetypes
  50. Customizing the schedule title
  51. Using the linework tool
  52. Creating hidden parameters in family content
  53. Custom detail module
  54. Using Dynamo to rename sheets
  55. Using Dynamo to rename views
  56. Using view templates to sort your project views
  57. Discovering the A360 online viewer
  58. Controlling the spacing of elements with global parameters
  59. Changing material selections globally
  60. Creating custom roof soffits
  61. How to build a roof dormer
  62. Creating a custom sloped ceiling
  63. Using Railing Support members instead of Balusters
  64. Splitting section lines
  65. Understanding Revit warnings
  66. How to create a canted wall
  67. Drive family parameters with a dropdown list
  68. Customize shared parameters
  69. Using the Autodesk desktop app
  70. Import CAD into a sketch
  71. Using the Is Reference in families
  72. Precutting column families
  73. Sloped glazing
  74. Wall layer wrapping
  75. Custom wall openings
  76. Topography settings and graphics
  77. Using tangency locks
  78. Consider variations in design with groups
  79. Swap out shared families and non-shared families
  80. Place multiple elements with Dynamo
  81. Understanding cutable families
  82. Link a point cloud to Revit
  83. Generate cloud renderings
  84. Upgrade a folder full of files with Dynamo
  85. Get a behind the scenes look at Revit development
  86. Create manual tags with generic annotations
  87. Customize symbols using custom fonts
  88. Create a fence from a railing type
  89. Creating a key plan family
  90. Renaming families with Dynamo
  91. Display elements beyond with the Show Hidden Lines tools
  92. Convert a hosted family to face-based or non-hosted family
  93. Create a type catalog
  94. Make a material tailored to a 3D surface
  95. Create vaulted roofs and ceilings
  96. Manually Add Length and Width to a Room Tag
  97. Add Length and Width to a Room Tag using Global Parameters
  98. Add Length and Width to a Room Tag using Dynamo
  99. Custom labels in level heads
  100. Create an ADA curb cut in a floor
  101. Create an ADA curb cut with a loadable family
  102. Export shared parameters from a file

  103. Workset unload by user

  104. Using shortcuts
  105. Select elements by ID
  106. Schedule Browser Organization customization
  107. Understanding and controlling double click behavior
  108. Painting the surfaces of walls
  109. Duplicating materials
  110. Wall sweeps for moldings and trim
  111. Creating custom patterns
  112. Customizing room boundary calculations
  113. Redirect the location of your A360 Drive folder with a symbolic link
  114. Moves with Nearby Elements
  115. Understanding wall base and top attachments
  116. Adding surface patterns to glazing
  117. Family save path locations
  118. Show nested families on schedules
  119. Control door swing angle with a sweep
  120. Use railings to create Life Safety egress paths
  121. Revisiting selection toggles
  122. Creating domes
  123. Join and cut geometry
  124. The new fill pattern dialog
  125. Creating a dedicated level for site
  126. Make a curved window that matches its host wall
  127. Create a 'dot' schedule
  128. Making curved curtain wall mullions
  129. Round window with spokes from a curtain wall
  130. Custom mullion profiles
  131. Dealing with mullions at curtain wall corners
  132. Customizing curtain wall corner panels
  133. Reduce file size with purge unused
  134. Performing routine maintenance
  135. Exporting all families
  136. Adding a progress set stamp to sheets
  137. When in doubt, right-click
  138. Using the Pick New Host tool
  139. Using fascia to model standing seam roofing
  140. Modify lighting families to make them easy to center
  141. Change the default viewport type for sheets
  142. Sorting a sheet list
  143. Editing sheets with a sheet list
  144. Use reference planes to line up viewports
  145. Rotate a section line
  146. Use reference plane subcategories as a detail grid
  147. Aligning dimensions to reference planes
  148. Using embedded images to show typ wall types
  149. Apply a new finish to a wall using join geometry
  150. Create vaulted roofs and ceilings
  151. Exploring the new Recent Files screen
  152. Applying hatching to the edges of system families
  153. Using the Align tool to change the orientation of sections
  154. Leveraging support for imported AutoCAD hatches
  155. Understanding the family reload options
  156. Create fillet arcs with a predefined radius
  157. Using point clouds in Revit families
  158. Preserve open views when closing Revit files
  159. Troubleshoting missing annotation elements
  160. Changing a built-in parameter from type to instance
  161. Update the Desktop Connector app
  162. Exploring the Revit program options
  163. Shared coordinate simple setup
  164. Calculate minimum and maximum values in a schedule
  165. Using Dynamo to selectively place views on sheets
  166. Schedule links and groups
  167. Worksharing display
  168. Force relinquish another user in cloud-based worksharing
  169. Drag a view to move it from one sheet to another
  170. Swap line styles with Dynamo
  171. Using Excel and Dynamo to batch process line styles
  172. REWIND: Layering viewports on a sheet
  173. New in BIM 360: Upgrade cloud models
  174. New in Revit 2020: Linking a PDF file to a Revit project
  175. New in Revit 2020: Creating elliptical walls
  176. New in Revit 2020: Using path of travel
  177. Troubleshooting Scope Box setting in view properties
  178. Controlling the length of view titles consistently
  179. Resolving an error when trying to move viewports
  180. Using Transfer Project Standards to copy settings from one project to another
  181. Using model review to audit projects for compliance with standards
  182. REWIND: How to build a roof dormer
  183. Using eTransmit to upgrade files
  184. Preventing errors when stretching unlocked wall layers
  185. Adjusting inserts that do not adjust to wall thickness correctly
  186. Make a tiled roof with sloped glazing
  187. Incorporating generic annotation elements into face-based families
  188. Embedded curtain walls not cleaning up properly at corners
  189. Split walls vertically
  190. Copy legend views to multiple sheets
  191. Lock dimensions in the Family Editor
  192. Using the Grading tool to modify a toposurface
  193. Revit from your vacation photos
  194. Understanding and hacking the display properties of grids and datum elements
  195. Leveraging existing model groups in arrays
  196. Why Revit renames that family to avoid inconsistencies
  197. Turn off the double-click to rename feature
  198. Understanding and customizing 3D poche cut
  199. Using parts to demolish part of a wall
  200. REWIND: Calculate minimum and maximum values on a schedule (no subs)
  201. REWIND: Drag a view to move it from one sheet to another
  202. New in 2020.1: UI improvements
  203. New in 2020.1: Attach top and base improvements
  204. New in 2020.1: Path of travel improvements
  205. New in 2020.1: Visualize coordinate points for links
  206. Using dictionaries in Dynamo
  207. Understanding the differences between detail and floor plan callouts
  208. Orientation issues with face-based content and basic ceilings
  209. When to use basic ceilings
  210. Using nested families to show consultant firms on your title block
  211. Partially applying view templates
  212. Modifying the sketch of automatically created railings
  213. Controlling the wrapping of text in long view titles
  214. Creating a stair with custom treads and risers
  215. Customizing stair runs and landings
  216. Quickly create cutaway 3D views with the Selection Box tool
  217. Create a custom parameter in a view reference tag
  218. Wrapping titles in schedule headers
  219. Using Dynamo to indicate wall fire ratings
  220. Using filters in visibility graphics to indicate wall fire ratings
  221. Understanding architectural columns and pilasters
  222. Creating a custom angled pilaster family
  223. Hiding the edges of an imported 3D mesh in a Revit family
  224. Face-based and work-plane-based family placement orientation options
  225. An inventory of opening elements
  226. Using a lookup table to report values from a predefined CSV list
  227. Using scope boxes to set the extents of views
  228. Installing and using packages in Dynamo
  229. Using Dynamo to create many family types
  230. Warning for insert conflicts with wall
  231. Revisiting Dynamo and Excel line-style mapping
  232. Create a manual color fill legend for categories other than rooms
  233. Using Dynamo to place wall hosted elements like windows
  234. Add randomization to your Dynamo window placement
  235. Rediscover the Activate Dimensions feature
  236. Calculating occupancy code values with Dynamo
  237. Troubleshooting discrepancies in your Dynamo graph
  238. Convert In-Place Families to component loadable families
  239. Customize the default visibility of new 3D views
  240. Exposing some legacy behavior lingering in Revit
  241. Design option alternative using global parameters
  242. Understanding symbolic lines and masking regions in families
  243. Setting up shared coordinates on BIM 360
  244. Using pin position with pick new host
  245. Enhanced realistic visual style
  246. Using formulas and trigonometry to edit slanted walls
  247. Using global parameters to control slanted wall parameters
  248. Schedule enhancements
  249. Disable display filters in visibility and graphics
  250. Selecting multiple walls with Entire Walls dimensioning
  251. Customizing artificial lighting
  252. Using a schedule as a legend
  253. How to map CAD layers to Revit line weights
  254. Create a wall takeoff
  255. Create a signage data sheet
  256. Publish a shared view
  257. Troubleshooting troublesome nested families and parameters
  258. Configuring linear dimension types
  259. Configuring nonlinear dimension types
  260. Batch process text type modifications
  261. Make a material and fill pattern follow a curve
  262. Leverage the out-of-the-box window, trim and muntin pattern libraries
  263. Reset your shared coordinates
  264. Discover the built-in Interference Check tool
  265. Revisiting the Attach Top/Base command
  266. Controlling void cut behavior in the Family Editor
  267. Tips for working with topography (no subs)
  268. Creating an export setup for exporting to CAD
  269. Understanding CAD import settings
  270. Understanding Revit line weight settings
  271. New in Revit 2022: Using shared parameters in key schedules
  272. New in Revit 2022: Resizable dialog boxes
  273. New in Revit 2022: Tagging multiple elements-curtain wall mullions and more
  274. New in Revit 2022: Understanding tapered wall type and instance properties
  275. New in Revit 2022: Filter schedules by family and type and other enhancements
  276. New in Revit 2022: Preserve callouts when deleting parent views
  277. Use Dynamo to write view scale to bar scale symbols
  278. Adjust roof sketch line plate heights
  279. Unrolling a wall in elevation
  280. Route analysis
  281. Scope box properties and copying
  282. New in Revit 2022: Display filters now support phasing
  283. Removing all family types from a saved RFA ramily file
  284. New in 2022: Multicategory tags and groups
  285. Make a lollipop tree family, part 1
  286. Make a lollipop tree family, part 2 (no subs)
  287. Randomize family parameter values with Dynamo
  288. Section heads with built-in masking region
  289. Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 1
  290. Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 2
  291. Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 3
  292. Create a custom install (in Autodesk account)
  293. New in 2022: Modify tools remember options
  294. Creating roof crickets with shape editing tools
  295. Working with user keynotes
  296. Perspective views from views other than floor plans
  297. Using the Steering Wheel to manipulate camera views
  298. Using the Soffit tool
  299. Creating Soffits with the Fascia tool
  300. Make a model family scalable by leveraging the planting category
  301. Using a cutout map in a custom material
  302. Create a custom render appearance path in Revit options
  303. Positioning texture maps within custom materials
  304. Troubleshooting rooms or spaces that disappear in the model
  305. Add circles around the number values in a note schedule
  306. Using the sun path tool
  307. Understanding the location of leaders in tags
  308. Understanding architectural column join behavior
  309. Controlling the display of callout views
  310. Error mitigation
  311. Model layout cleanup techniques
  312. Family creation inspired by TV
  313. Using reporting parameters to query design data
  314. Reporting design data in project views
  315. Colored labels and symbols in tags
  316. The relationship between the IsReference setting and dimensions
  317. Slanted and tapered walls
  318. Using and deleting a guide grid
  319. An introduction to the Revit.ini file
  320. Using Edit Path to customize a railing
  321. Wall Closure for doors and windows
  322. Modifying the height property displayed in level heads
  323. Assigning materials to CAD imports

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