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Revit 3D Section Box

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What is a 3D Section box?A 3D section box is an invisible box which you can customise the size and position of, to display only elements which are contained within. Perhaps you want to only see the first floor in 3D or maybe just an out building. Using a 3D section box in Revit, we …

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Revit Thin Lines Tool

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In this blog I am briefly going to show you the Revit Thin Lines tool. This is a simple yet powerful tool which can largely go un-noticed. Where to find the Thin Line ToolThe thin line tool can be accessed on the quick access tool bar in the top left of the Revit window. What …

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Revit – How to Save a 3D View

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In this blog I will show you how to save a 3D view in Revit. These will be added to the project browser and can even be added onto sheets. We can save a custom 3D View in just a couple of steps: 1.Go into 3D mode in Revit by double clicking {3D} in the …

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Revit Room Separator

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In this blog I will show you how you can split a single enclosed region in Revit to contain multiple rooms using the Room Separator. This is useful if you have an open plan space which may contain multiple rooms such as a kitchen/diner or an open office with admin, accounts and sales all in …

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Using Halftone/Underlay Options in Revit

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Revit has great features for using your linked files for underlaying using to trace over in both 2D or 3D. Using halftone, you can easily distinguish what is you’re doing and what is underlay. But how do you change your Halftone/Underlay options in Revit? Manage > Additional Settings > Halftone/Underlay  Consider when using this, it …

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Halftone/Underlay Options in Revit

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Revit has great features for using your linked files for underlaying using to trace over in both 2D or 3D. Using halftone, you can easily distinguish what is your doing and what is underlay. But how do you change your Halftone/Underlay options in Revit? Manage > Additional Settings > Halftone/Underlay  Consider when using this, it …

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How to Create a 3D 360 Panorama of your Revit Project

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Did you know that there is an extension for Revit which allows you to view your project in a 3D Panorama in full 360° VR mode on your phone? That extension is called Enscape and using Enscape we can pick a point in our project to create a 360° 3D render which we can upload …

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How to Export Revit Schedules to Excel

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Want to export your Revit schedules into Excel? Following the below instructions, I will show you how you can get your Revit Schedules in to Excel with a few simple steps. How to Export to TXT in Revit In Revit we can export our schedules to a TXT file and then in Excel we can …

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