Applied ViewTemplate and Default View Template

A strong feature of Revit is the ability to add view templates to views, to unilaterally change the settings on a view to make it look like another.  Throughout the course of your project, you have probably set up several view templates for everything.  Plans, Elevations, Enlarged plans, sections, etc all have a template associated with them.  You can apply a view template as the default for the view, or separately from the view.

Saving to Central, it's a love/hate relationship

Save to central, that dreaded pop up that shows up at the most inconvenient times, and only when you click a button to do something else really important.  This is usually preceeded by a 'save locally' prompt which you choose to ignore (because whatever task you are trying to do is much more important than saving your work).  How important is it? Why does it pop up like that?

Favorite Customized Shortcuts

Everyone likes their software set up a certain way.  In Autocad everyone had their favorite tool bars, settings, colors, shortcuts that were tranferred from release to release and Revit is no exception.  While the introduction of the ribbon a couple years ago initially frustrated many people, in the end it turned out to save time because similar tasks were consolidated.  I have come up with a couple features that I always implement in my seat of Revit that increase my efficiency and workflow and thought I would share them.  Today is part one.

Bluestreak Review

Available from Autodesk Lab's is a program called Bluestreak.  It links with your Autodesk account and programs such as Revit and Buzzsaw as well as has it's own mobile app.