Hide at Scales Coarser Than

I love this feature for what it can do about all the annoying annotations which can appear.  Some people consider the fact that annotations are smart objects in revit as a blessing and a curse. 

The curse side being that after you place it, they appear everywhere after you place them and most the time you need to go to all your views and actually turn them off and hide them, which can be a little annoying and teadious. 

VA BIM Guidelines

If you aren't already aware, the VA publishes their own guidelines to be used on all BIM projects (which is mandatory for anything over a certain size.)  It is a very good set of guidelines, of which I have copied concepts for some of the documents that I have written.

Check it out when you get a chance: http://www.cfm.va.gov/til/bim/BIMGuide/downloads/VA-BIM-Guide.pdf

They have some great procedures (like the firewalls).  And even some things I can't figure out how they do!

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.

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…