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How to Set a Project Splash Screen in Revit

Did you know that within Revit you can create a splash screen or specified view to be displayed when a project is opened? Also if you want to speed up the opening of projects, creating a project splash screen can save Revit having to generate a 3D view when a project is opened. How to …

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Recent Autodesk Revit Security Updates

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Autodesk have recently released a number of Revit security updates for Autodesk Revit versions 2017, 2018, and 2019. These important updates address potential security issues and are seen as required and critical installations, which without installation could affect the ability for your product to work in the future. We recommend you install these Revit security …

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Problems printing to PDF using Autodesk Revit

Revit Printing to PDF

Have you encountered problems printing to PDF in Autodesk Revit? It seems to freeze and not continue with the print command? Does it want to create numerous files in an unbreakable script, even though you have specified ‘Combine multiple selected view/ sheets into a single file’? This is currently an ongoing issue, which has been …

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Revit Design Options Explained

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In this blog I will explain Revit design options and how they work. Design options allows you to create and manage multiple designs within the same project. By using design options within Revit you can create multiple options within the same space without them conflicting with each other. Design options can be anything from furniture …

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Revit 2019 New Features

What's New Revit 2019

Revit 2019 has now been released with the new features focused on community feedback. The top two requested features on the Revit Ideas forums with over 2000 votes each have both been included in this new release.If you want a peak at upcoming Revit features that are being worked on head over to the Revit …

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Export Plant 3D Model into Revit

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In this blog I am going to show you the workflow to take a Plant 3D model and export it so that it can be used to create a Revit Family file (rfa). You can download a copy of the BATCHEXPORTTOAUTOCAD.DLL tool discussed in this blog, from my A360 account using this link http://a360.co/2nfsRC1 Pre-requisite- …

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How to Save your Revit Custom System Families

Revit Custom System Families

Would you like to know how to save your Revit custom system families? In this blog post I will explain how we can save system families as a Revit file and how we can easily load them into other projects. What is a System FamilyFirstly you need to understand that in Revit there are two …

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