Friday, July 15, 2011

Wish list

When it comes to Revit all of us have wishes , don't we ?! 
Well here is mine: 


  1. Right click on an object in 3d, and there is a button : Draw Scope Box or Focus Box round the object and clip objects around the selection and  "not" just hide everything else .(so we can see a relation between the selection and around. Something like focus button in Navisworks.'
  2. This is very simple :) To be able to look at room objects in 3d.
  3. In warning dialogue box, the possibility to select those objects involved, and later isolate them.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Learning by Seeing !

In the process of learning and developing your skills in Revit, it is useful to have a keen eye on architectural and general building details and features around you.
Try to document them by either taking photos or sketching them and then build them in Revit. This way you are after a specific goal and will tear the program apart to achieve it. In this process you will learn a lot of other things, because you are not after learning how to use a tool which is an isolated approach. You are after building your model or detail or whatever. Here
One of other benefits of this approach is you learn to appreciate the multitude of approaches to a problem and constantly try to fing simpler ways to do the same task.
As an example I saw this detail and photographed it.

Walls on ramps

To draw a wall and lock its base constraint to the ramp so the wall updates when ramp changes slope:

1- Draw the ramp
2- Draw a wall that intersect the ramp.
3- Mark the wall and click on "Edit Profile".
4- choose "Pick Line" in the contextual draw panel.
5- Move the cursor over the ramp and click on the center line on the ramp as it gets highlighted.
6- Lock the pad lock.
7- Finish the sketch.