Revits Visibility settings are quite simple once you understand them, which is what I intend to do here. There are a two concepts we first need to understand: The hierarchy and categorisation of elements. Revit has a simple hierarchy for most elements, Instance -> Type -> Family -> Category. You could have an instance of …
Our support team at Man and Machine, occasionally come across Vault issues. One issue which appears sometimes is a ‘greyed out’ or disabled Check In feature on the Vault tab within Inventor. Albeit a small issue, this can be the cause of a greater problem which would need investigating. In this blog, I will explain …
Do you need a live rendered plan or site view from Revit? Use Enscape’s useful view feature to create an orthographic view, with real-time changes and environment features. What is an Orthographic View? Within Revit itself, you can view your three-dimensional model, in a two-dimensional view, this would be called an orthographic view. Orthographic views …
There are some occasions when a complete uninstall of the Vault SQL instance is required, for example, when you need to rename the Vault server. The following steps detail how to uninstall the AUTODESKVAULT instance so that you could rename the server then re-install and restore Vault from a Vault backup. First uninstall Autodesk Data …
Our support team have recently come across this issue, more than once. A simple issue, but occurring more so now with users working remotely, and moving around locations, or simply coming back into the office. When using Autodesk software, all works fine, until you select a feature. The software you are using will then freeze, …
There are a number of available direct access library add ins for Revit to help with manufacturers components prepopulated with parameters and useful metadata which can help with efficiency and compilation speed of model production especially in the technical design portion of a project. This blog covers a few useful libraries to consider. There are …
How to import a Revit model into Inventor whilst maintaining the model structure? Using the latest versions of Revit and Inventor we can directly open a Revit project in Inventor whilst keeping the model structure and relationship intact. Starting with an Inventor assembly file open in Inventor, select the import CAD Files command from the …
One of a couple of new tools which have been added to the BIM Interoperability Toolset, the new spatial data tool adds some new control over metadata and parameters being added to project areas and rooms to aid consistent delivery. This tool can be accessed through the BIM Interoperability Toolbar and is represented on the …