Over 2017 Development

The year 2017 is almost coming to an end. As you notice, there are no new articles published since last, simply because I am too busy with things I love to do.

As you know, Revit is still the best modeling software I ever encounterd in my life and hopefully the same is true for you too. There are still much work that one can do to be more productive using this software. To be honest, I am not a very ambitious person in the first place to develop some tools that can help boost Revit productivity. I am not saying there is anything wrong with ambition. My ambition is to do things that I am happy with and I am very happy doing volunteer work this time and I'll always be very happy with it.

To my followers and readers, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2018.

Future Developments 2017

Thanks everyone for following this blog and for your feedback. It really means a lot to me hearing that you are getting value out of the articles that I published here. I will try to continue this again as soon as new unique developments around Revit arises.

If you have some questions about the use of Revit, just drop me a line.

Sunken Floor

Problem: How do I correctly model a sunken floor construction?


Steps:

1. Create the floor geometry required at the highest level.

2. Create the edge beam needed along the floor just made.

3. Lastly, create the lower floor against the edge beam.

Guide Grid in Revit

Since the introduction of Autodesk Revit 2011, there is the possibility of inserting a guide grid to align views across the sheet set. This "Guide Grid" command is available under the View tab and on the Sheet Composition panel. By selecting this option a light blue grid object will be inserted on your sheet. You can choose to give it an unique name such as "A1" Guide Grid, and under Properties, you can set the spacing to your requirement such as 25mm.

To insert the same grid with the same location on another sheet, simply open that Sheet View and from the Properties menu, under Guide Grid, select the "A1" Guide Grid that you just created.

With the Revit Guide Grid, you can align your all floor plans, by using the same intersection of the guide grid lines you created. You can resize the Guide Grid bounds to suit your needs. Several guide grid types can be created to align different type of views, such as sections, plans, details, elevations, etc.

Please take note that the alignment snapping works only for Grids, Levels, Reference Planes and view Crop boundaries. It will not work for other entities.