Share tasks with other users

Do you use exchange server in your office?  Are you part of a team attempting to get a project done?  Use tasks in Outlook to keep track of who is doing what, what is done, and what needs to be done.

New AUGI newsletter released!

Check out the newest AUGI Newsletter: http://www.augi.com/augiworld/current-issue.  Not too much on Revit in this issue, but a good talk about how to find answers to questions you don't know.

Set Default View Template

Included in the properties for each view is a field called 'Default View Template'.  You may (should) be using view templates in your project to control views, but did you know this parameter can be completely independent upon what is actually set in that particular view?

Limits of Construction

Need to show a limits of construction line on your drawings?  Need to show it on multiple plans, sheets and views?  Here is a little tip to help automate this process.

Horizontal Sections

Need to draw a horizontal section?  No, I'm not talking about a floor plan.  How about on your door details, or an interior elevation needing to cut a section through a jamb condition.

Tracking Revised Sheets

Issuing a revision or CB?  Making a change that affects many sheets in your document set? 

Ever want to know exactly which sheets were revised by your most recent revision?  Here is a little trick I use to let Revit tell me what has been changed. 

Re-arranging Tabs

Did you know you could re-arrange the tabs in Revit?  I didn't either until today!  Sometimes with new releases or updates of Revit, Autodesk will re-arrange the tabs to try to make your workflow more 'efficient'.  (Althought I would suggest working with the new arrangement for a little while to see if it does if fact make you more efficient, that is after you learn the new position of your favorite commands).

Placement of Rooms

Placing rooms is one of those things you do, hardly think about, and take for granted that they are there.  It is one of the first things that you do in a project (presumably).  What happens though when you need a room.  If you don't have a system, you could be wasting time…

Have a view in another project you want to import?

Working on a new project? Create a  drafting view for another project with the exact or almost exact conditions?  It is easy to re-use that existing detail.

Elevation tags everywhere!

Place an elevation tag in an enlarged floor plan only to discover that it also shows up in the regular floor plan?  Sick of hiding each one individually in all views?

More uses of copy/paste

The previous post touched on how to do fireproofing, and the ability to copy linework from the editing command (in that case it was a revision cloud) and paste it back into your drawing as linework.  Here is another example of how you can use this ability.

Fireproofing on beams in sections

One major lacking feature of Revit is the inability to easily place fireproofing in sections.  Typically to increase the level of detail in a view, detail components are placed on top of model components.  The detail components then give a higher level of detail to the view, one with we are accustomed to seeing.

What do you do to place fireproofing around beams in the section views?

Use other view's settings...

I can't claim full credit for this post, because I ran across the idea on another blog hosted by The Revit Kid.  He talks about using a feature in the view templates dialogue box which allows you to use the settings of another view.   The added text below however is mine.

http://therevitkid.blogspot.com/search/label/revit%20view%20tempaltes

Quickly re-assign view templates to all views on a sheet

One of the drawbacks to view templates is that they do not automatically updates views when you change the settings.  It is common once you define a template and start working through a project to modify and tweek settings, but views you have already assigned the view template to are not changed.