Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Free Online Course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 53 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting is taught by Paul F. Aubin.

Overview
  • Get a new tip, trick, or troubleshooting technique for Revit every Tuesday. This weekly series offers workflow enhancements, customizations, and shortcuts for every Revit user.

Syllabus
  • View filter enhancements

    • New in Revit 2023
    Introduction
    • Welcome
    • Using the exercise files
    Materials enhancements
    • New in Revit 2023
    Fix chaotic slab pattern direction
    • New in Revit 2023
    • July 2022
      • Using vertical opening elements to eliminate undesired folding lines
      • Group properties and tagging
        • New in Revit 2023
        June 2022
        • Group a room area schedule by function
        • Copying group data to rooms and calculating percentages
        • Controlling the sheets that appear on a sheet list
        • Controlling the output order to print or PDF
        May 2022
        • Modifying the height property displayed in level heads
        • Assigning materials to CAD imports
        • Using Copy and Paste to modify crop regions
        • Managing view templates
        • Curtain wall mullion quantities
        April 2022
        • Using and deleting a guide grid
        • An introduction to the Revit.ini file
        • Using Edit Path to customize a railing
        • Wall Closure for doors and windows
        March 2022
        • Using reporting parameters to query design data
        • Reporting design data in project views
        • Colored labels and symbols in tags
        • The relationship between the IsReference setting and dimensions
        • Slanted and tapered walls
        February 2022
        • Controlling the display of callout views
        • Error mitigation
        • Model layout cleanup techniques
        • Family creation inspired by TV
        January 2022
        • New features in Revit 2022.1
        • Using the sun path tool
        • Understanding the location of leaders in tags
        • Understanding architectural column join behavior
        December 2021
        • Positioning texture maps within custom materials
        • Troubleshooting rooms or spaces that disappear in the model
        • Add circles around the number values in a note schedule
        November 2021
        • Using the Soffit tool
        • Creating Soffits with the Fascia tool
        • Make a model family scalable by leveraging the planting category
        • Using a cutout map in a custom material
        • Create a custom render appearance path in Revit options
        October 2021
        • Creating roof crickets with shape editing tools
        • Working with user keynotes
        • Perspective views from views other than floor plans
        • Using the Steering Wheel to manipulate camera views
        September 2021
        • Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 2
        • Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 3
        • Create a custom install (in Autodesk account)
        • New in 2022: Modify tools remember options
        August 2021
        • Make a lollipop tree family, part 1
        • Make a lollipop tree family, part 2
        • Randomize family parameter values with Dynamo
        • Section heads with built-in masking region
        • Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 1
        July 2021
        • New in Revit 2022: Display filters now support phasing
        • Removing all family types from a saved RFA ramily file
        • New in 2022: Multicategory tags and groups
        June 2021
        • Use Dynamo to write view scale to bar scale symbols
        • Adjust roof sketch line plate heights
        • Unrolling a wall in elevation
        • Route analysis
        • Scope box properties and copying
        May 2021
        • New in Revit 2022: Tagging multiple elements—curtain wall mullions and more
        • New in Revit 2022: Understanding tapered wall type and instance properties
        • New in Revit 2022: Filter schedules by family and type and other enhancements
        • New in Revit 2022: Preserve callouts when deleting parent views
        April 2021
        • Understanding Revit line weight settings
        • New in Revit 2022: Using shared parameters in key schedules
        • New in Revit 2022: Resizable dialog boxes
        March 2021
        • Revisiting the Attach Top/Base command
        • Controlling void cut behavior in the Family Editor
        • Tips for working with topography
        • Creating an export setup for exporting to CAD
        • Understanding CAD import settings
        February 2021
        • Make a material and fill pattern follow a curve
        • Leverage the out-of-the-box window, trim and muntin pattern libraries
        • Reset your shared coordinates
        • Discover the built-in Interference Check tool
        January 2021
        • Troubleshooting troublesome nested families and parameters
        • Configuring linear dimension types
        • Configuring nonlinear dimension types
        • Batch process text type modifications
        December 2020
        • How to map CAD layers to Revit line weights
        • Create a wall takeoff
        • Create a signage data sheet
        • Publish a shared view
        November 2020
        • Schedule enhancements
        • Disable display filters in visibility and graphics
        • Selecting multiple walls with Entire Walls dimensioning
        • Customizing artificial lighting
        • Using a schedule as a legend
        October 2020
        • Enhanced realistic visual style
        • Using formulas and trigonometry to edit slanted walls
        • Using global parameters to control slanted wall parameters
        September 2020
        • Exposing some legacy behavior lingering in Revit
        • Design option alternative using global parameters
        • Understanding symbolic lines and masking regions in families
        • Setting up shared coordinates on BIM 360
        • Using pin position with pick new host
        August 2020
        • Calculating occupancy code values with Dynamo
        • Troubleshooting discrepancies in your Dynamo graph
        • Convert In-Place Families to component loadable families
        • Customize the default visibility of new 3D views
        July 2020
        • Using Dynamo to place wall hosted elements like windows
        • Add randomization to your Dynamo window placement
        • Rediscover the Activate Dimensions feature
        June 2020
        • Installing and using packages in Dynamo
        • Using Dynamo to create many family types
        • Warning for insert conflicts with wall
        • Revisiting Dynamo and Excel line-style mapping
        • Create a manual color fill legend for categories other than rooms
        May 2020
        • Face-based and work-plane-based family placement orientation options
        • An inventory of opening elements
        • Using a lookup table to report values from a predefined CSV list
        • Using scope boxes to set the extents of views
        April 2020
        • Using filters in visibility graphics to indicate wall fire ratings
        • Understanding architectural columns and pilasters
        • Creating a custom angled pilaster family
        • Hiding the edges of an imported 3D mesh in a Revit family
        March 2020
        • Customizing stair runs and landings
        • Quickly create cutaway 3D views with the Selection Box tool
        • Create a custom parameter in a view reference tag
        • Wrapping titles in schedule headers
        • Using Dynamo to indicate wall fire ratings
        February 2020
        • Partially applying view templates
        • Modifying the sketch of automatically created railings
        • Controlling the wrapping of text in long view titles
        • Creating a stair with custom treads and risers
        January 2020
        • Understanding the differences between detail and floor plan callouts
        • Orientation issues with face-based content and basic ceilings
        • When to use basic ceilings
        • Using nested families to show consultant firms on your title block
        December 2019
        • New in 2020.1: Path of travel improvements
        • New in 2020.1: Visualize coordinate points for links
        • Using dictionaries in Dynamo
        November 2019
        • REWIND: Calculate minimum and maximum values on a schedule
        • REWIND: Drag a view to move it from one sheet to another
        • New in 2020.1: UI improvements
        • New in 2020.1: Attach top and base improvements
        October 2019
        • Leveraging existing model groups in arrays
        • Why Revit renames that family to avoid inconsistencies
        • Turn off the double-click to rename feature
        • Understanding and customizing 3D poche cut
        • Using parts to demolish part of a wall
        September 2019
        • Lock dimensions in the Family Editor
        • Using the Grading tool to modify a toposurface
        • Revit from your vacation photos
        • Understanding and hacking the display properties of grids and datum elements
        August 2019
        • Incorporating generic annotation elements into face-based families
        • Embedded curtain walls not cleaning up properly at corners
        • Split walls vertically
        • Copy legend views to multiple sheets
        July 2019
        • Using eTransmit to upgrade files
        • Preventing errors when stretching unlocked wall layers
        • Adjusting inserts that do not adjust to wall thickness correctly
        • Make a tiled roof with sloped glazing
        June 2019
        • Using Transfer Project Standards to copy settings from one project to another
        • Using model review to audit projects for compliance with standards
        • REWIND: How to build a roof dormer
        May 2019
        • New in Revit 2020: Using path of travel
        • Troubleshooting Scope Box setting in view properties
        • Controlling the length of view titles consistently
        • Resolving an error when trying to move viewports
        April 2019
        • Using Excel and Dynamo to batch process line styles
        • REWIND: Layering viewports on a sheet
        • New in BIM 360: Upgrade cloud models
        • New in Revit 2020: Linking a PDF file to a Revit project
        • New in Revit 2020: Creating elliptical walls
        March 2019
        • Worksharing display
        • Force relinquish another user in cloud-based worksharing
        • Drag a view to move it from one sheet to another
        • Swap line styles with Dynamo
        February 2019
        • Shared coordinate simple setup
        • Calculate minimum and maximum values in a schedule
        • Using Dynamo to selectively place views on sheets
        • Schedule links and groups
        January 2019
        • Troubleshoting missing annotation elements
        • Changing a built-in parameter from type to instance
        • Update the Desktop Connector app
        • Exploring the Revit program options
        December 2018
        • Create fillet arcs with a predefined radius
        • Using point clouds in Revit families
        • Preserve open views when closing Revit files
        November 2018
        • Applying hatching to the edges of system families
        • Using the Align tool to change the orientation of sections
        • Leveraging support for imported AutoCAD hatches
        • Understanding the family reload options
        October 2018
        • Using embedded images to show typ wall types
        • Apply a new finish to a wall using join geometry.
        • Create vaulted roofs and ceilings
        • Exploring the new Recent Files screen
        September 2018
        • Use reference planes to line up viewports
        • Rotate a section line
        • Use reference plane subcategories as a detail grid
        • Aligning dimensions to reference planes
        August 2018
        • Modify lighting families to make them easy to center
        • Change the default viewport type for sheets
        • Sorting a sheet list
        • Editing sheets with a sheet list
        July 2018
        • Adding a progress set stamp to sheets
        • When in doubt, right-click
        • Using the Pick New Host tool
        • Using fascia to model standing seam roofing
        June 2018
        • Performing routine maintenance
        • Exporting all families
        May 2018
        • Custom mullion profiles
        • Dealing with mullions at curtain wall corners
        • Customizing curtain wall corner panels
        • Reduce file size with purge unused
        April 2018
        • Make a curved window that matches its host wall
        • Create a "dot" schedule
        • Making curved curtain wall mullions
        • Round window with spokes from a curtain wall
        March 2018
        • Join and cut geometry
        • The new fill pattern dialog
        • Creating a dedicated level for site
        February 2018
        • Control door swing angle with a sweep
        • Use railings to create Life Safety egress paths
        • Revisiting selection toggles
        • Creating domes
        January 2018
        • Adding surface patterns to glazing
        • Family save path locations
        • Show nested families on schedules
        December 2017
        • Moves with Nearby Elements
        • Understanding wall base and top attachments
        November 2017
        • Painting the surfaces of walls
        • Duplicating materials
        • Wall sweeps for moldings and trim
        • Creating custom patterns
        • Customizing room boundary calculations
        October 2017
        • Using shortcuts
        • Select elements by ID
        • Schedule Browser Organization customization
        • Understanding and controlling double-click behavior
        September 2017
        • Create an ADA curb cut in a floor
        • Create an ADA curb cut with a loadable family
        • Export shared parameters from a file
        • Workset unload by user
        August 2017
        • Create vaulted roofs and ceilings
        • Manually Add Length and Width to a Room Tag
        • Add length and width to a room tag using global parameters
        • Add length and width to a room tag using Dynamo
        • Custom labels in level heads
        July 2017
        • Convert a hosted family to face-based or non-hosted family
        • Create a type catalog
        • Make a material tailored to a 3D surface
        June 2017
        • Create a fence from a railing type
        • Creating a key plan family
        • Renaming families with Dynamo
        • Display elements beyond with the Show Hidden Lines tools
        May 2017
        • Generate cloud renderings
        • Get a behind the scenes look at Revit development
        • Create manual tags with generic annotations
        • Customize symbols using custom fonts
        April 2017
        • Swap out shared families and non-shared families
        • Place multiple elements with Dynamo
        • Understanding cutable families
        • Link a point cloud to Revit
        March 2017
        • Custom wall openings
        • Topography settings and graphics
        • Using tangency locks
        • Consider variations in design with groups
        February 2017
        • Using the Is Reference in families
        • Precutting column families
        • Sloped glazing
        • Wall layer wrapping
        January 2017
        • How to create a canted wall
        • Drive family parameters with a dropdown list
        • Customize shared parameters
        • Using the Autodesk desktop app
        • Import CAD into a sketch
        December 2016
        • Using Railing Support members instead of Balusters
        • Splitting section lines
        • Understanding Revit warnings
        November 2016
        • Controlling the spacing of elements with global parameters
        • Changing material selections globally
        • Creating custom roof soffits
        • How to build a roof dormer
        • Creating a custom sloped ceiling
        October 2016
        • Using Dynamo to rename sheets
        • Using Dynamo to rename views
        • Using view templates to sort your project views
        • Discovering the A360 online viewer
        September 2016
        • Customizing the schedule title
        • Using the linework tool
        • Creating hidden parameters in family content
        • Custom detail module
        August 2016
        • Controlling nested families parametrically with the parameter
        • Understanding shared families
        • Managing family parameters
        • Line-based families for complex linetypes
        July 2016
        • Making temporary Hide/Isolate permanent
        • Using filters
        • Seed families
        • Viewing list schedule
        June 2016
        • Sharing materials libraries
        • Adding a calculated value
        • Adding conditional formatting
        • Copying schedules between projects
        May 2016
        • Putting view templates in control of your views
        • Overlooked options on the Option Bar
        • Sheet management
        • Sheet sorting
        • Revisions on sheets
        April 2016
        • How to move a central file
        • Locking a workset
        • Using a schedule to edit the model
        • Creating a custom schedule property
        • Creating custom view types
        March 2016
        • Dimensioning alternate units
        • Chase examples
        • Importing CAD files lineweights
        • Exploding and cleaning up a CAD file
        • Customizing room tag positions
        February 2016
        • Creating a custom browser organization
        • Customizing grid appearance
        • Customizing level appearance
        • Managing dimension lines
        January 2016
        • Customizing Revit options
        • Turning on design options in Revit LT
        • Using a scope box to set datum extents
        • Setting up dependent views
        December 2015
        • Duplicating and swapping groups
        • Converting a group to a link
        • Equality dimensions anchor point
        • Dimension equality formulas
        November 2015
        • Cutaway 3D views
        • Rotating True North
        • Reveal Constraints
        • Excluding group members
        October 2015
        • Underpinning walls to a ceiling
        • Ceiling soffit tip
        • Creating similar and matched type
        • Array tips
        • Using slope arrows
        September 2015
        • Layering viewports on a sheet