Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
64h 41mIntermediate2022-12-20
Authors
Paul F. Aubin
Author and Consultant
Course details
In this series, there's a little something for every Revit designer—beginners and seasoned users alike. Each video focuses on a specific tip, trick, or troubleshooting technique within Revit. Do you import CAD files and want to achieve consistency? Want to get more from your dimensions? Need to check all of the views in a project and see if the settings are correct? Want to consistently configure crop boxes across the entire project? What about getting all the parameters in your family content in just the right order? These are just some of the topics in store. With a new video every week, you are sure to find something useful to add to your growing arsenal of Revit tools and techniques.
Skills covered
Revit MEPRevit StructureRevit ArchitectureRevit LTSerial (Weekly)RevitArchitectural VisualizationCivil EngineeringAutodesk3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
This Week's Tip
- 01 - Adjusting plan display of windows
0. Introduction
- 02 - Welcome
- 03 - Using the exercise files
December 2023
- 04 - Create a custom awning family, part 1
- 05 - Create a custom awning family, part 2
November 2023
- 06 - Tagging and scheduling curtain walls
- 07 - Using a point cloud in Revit LT
- 08 - Slanted walls don't miter in section
- 09 - Curtain wall with an irregular edge
October 2023
- 10 - Understanding room tag behavior
- 11 - Create a title block family with detail grid
- 12 - Filtering plumbing fixture schedules, part 1
- 13 - Filtering plumbing fixture schedules, part 2
- 14 - Filtering plumbing fixture schedules, part 3
September 2023
- 15 - Creating a lighting group
- 16 - Displaying skylights above in plan
- 17 - Tagging groups
- 18 - Vertically compound walls
August 2023
- 19 - New in 2024 - Dark mode
- 20 - New features in 2024
- 21 - New in 2024 - Pattern and texture alignment
- 22 - Creating a flexible rotating box family
- 23 - Creating a divided ellipse
July 2023
- 24 - Light fixture with adaptive mounting plate
- 25 - Refining a light fixture with adaptive mounting plate
- 26 - Reporting host information in a schedule with Dynamo
- 27 - New in 2024 - Snowdon Towers A new sample project
June 2023
- 28 - Changing default elevator families to vertical circulation
- 29 - Changing height behavior of default elevator families
- 30 - Changing height behavior of default elevator families, part 2
- 31 - Ceiling-based light fixture issues
May 2023
- 32 - Shafts and phasing
- 33 - Creating and using saved selections
- 34 - Using corner mullions on sloped glazing
- 35 - Using curtain wall grids
- 36 - Using custom profiles for mullions on sloped glazing
April 2023
- 37 - Make a room span multiple floors
- 38 - Follow-up to parking with railings
- 39 - Calculating averages in schedules update
- 40 - Basic sketching tips
December 2022
- 41 - Understanding cutable families
- 42 - Revisiting the Options Bar
- 43 - Visibility graphics of electrical symbols in plan views
November 2022
- 44 - Railings as road striping
- 45 - Customizing the per-view display of parts
- 46 - Access earlier saved versions in Autodesk Construction Cloud projects
- 47 - Cloud-based shared parameters service
- 48 - Dynamo to add room numbers
October 2022
- 49 - Level heads displaying more than one elevation
- 50 - Using different fill patterns for wall layers in section and plan
- 51 - Custom loft stair with custom-shaped treads - Railing
- 52 - Custom loft stair with custom-shaped treads - Family
September 2022
- 53 - Calculating averages in schedules, part 1
- 54 - Calculating averages in schedules, part 2
- 55 - Attaching top and base for columns
- 56 - Adding detail elements to sweeps
- 57 - Colorizing ceiling elements in a view
August 2022
- 58 - New in Revit 2023 - Materials enhancements
- 59 - New in Revit 2023 - View filter enhancements
- 60 - New in Revit 2023 - Mesh improvements
- 61 - New in Revit 2023 - Interactive solar studies
July 2022
- 62 - New in Revit 2023 - Fix chaotic slab pattern direction
- 63 - Using vertical opening elements to eliminate undesired folding lines
- 64 - New in Revit 2023 - Group properties and tagging
June 2022
- 65 - Group a room area schedule by function
- 66 - Copying group data to rooms and calculating percentages
- 67 - Controlling the sheets that appear on a sheet list
- 68 - Controlling the output order to print or PDF
May 2022
- 69 - Modifying the height property displayed in level heads
- 70 - Assigning materials to CAD imports
- 71 - Using Copy and Paste to modify crop regions
- 72 - Managing view templates
- 73 - Curtain wall mullion quantities
April 2022
- 74 - Using and deleting a guide grid
- 75 - An introduction to the Revit.ini file
- 76 - Using Edit Path to customize a railing
- 77 - Wall Closure for doors and windows
March 2022
- 78 - Using reporting parameters to query design data
- 79 - Reporting design data in project views
- 80 - Colored labels and symbols in tags
- 81 - The relationship between the IsReference setting and dimensions
- 82 - Slanted and tapered walls
February 2022
- 83 - Controlling the display of callout views
- 84 - Error mitigation
- 85 - Model layout cleanup techniques
- 86 - Family creation inspired by TV
January 2022
- 87 - New features in Revit 2022.1
- 88 - Using the sun path tool
- 89 - Understanding the location of leaders in tags
- 90 - Understanding architectural column join behavior
December 2021
- 91 - Positioning texture maps within custom materials
- 92 - Troubleshooting rooms or spaces that disappear in the model
- 93 - Add circles around the number values in a note schedule
November 2021
- 94 - Using the Soffit tool
- 95 - Creating Soffits with the Fascia tool
- 96 - Make a model family scalable by leveraging the planting category
- 97 - Using a cutout map in a custom material
- 98 - Create a custom render appearance path in Revit options
October 2021
- 99 - Creating roof crickets with shape editing tools
- 100 - Working with user keynotes
- 101 - Perspective views from views other than floor plans
- 102 - Using the Steering Wheel to manipulate camera views
September 2021
- 103 - Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 2
- 104 - Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 3
- 105 - Create a custom install (in Autodesk account)
- 106 - New in 2022 - Modify tools remember options
August 2021
- 107 - Make a lollipop tree family, part 1
- 108 - Make a lollipop tree family, part 2
- 109 - Randomize family parameter values with Dynamo
- 110 - Section heads with built-in masking region
- 111 - Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 1
July 2021
- 112 - New in Revit 2022 - Display filters now support phasing
- 113 - Removing all family types from a saved RFA ramily file
- 114 - New in 2022 - Multicategory tags and groups
June 2021
- 115 - Use Dynamo to write view scale to bar scale symbols
- 116 - Adjust roof sketch line plate heights
- 117 - Unrolling a wall in elevation
- 118 - Route analysis
- 119 - Scope box properties and copying
May 2021
- 120 - New in Revit 2022 - Tagging multiple elements curtain wall mullions and more
- 121 - New in Revit 2022 - Understanding tapered wall type and instance properties
- 122 - New in Revit 2022 - Filter schedules by family and type and other enhancements
- 123 - New in Revit 2022 - Preserve callouts when deleting parent views
April 2021
- 124 - Understanding Revit line weight settings
- 125 - New in Revit 2022 - Using shared parameters in key schedules
- 126 - New in Revit 2022 - Resizable dialog boxes
March 2021
- 127 - Revisiting the Attach Top Base command
- 128 - Controlling void cut behavior in the Family Editor
- 129 - Tips for working with topography
- 130 - Creating an export setup for exporting to CAD
- 131 - Understanding CAD import settings
February 2021
- 132 - Make a material and fill pattern follow a curve
- 133 - Leverage the out-of-the-box window, trim and muntin pattern libraries
- 134 - Reset your shared coordinates
- 135 - Discover the built-in Interference Check tool
January 2021
- 136 - Troubleshooting troublesome nested families and parameters
- 137 - Configuring linear dimension types
- 138 - Configuring nonlinear dimension types
- 139 - Batch process text type modifications
December 2020
- 140 - How to map CAD layers to Revit line weights
- 141 - Create a wall takeoff
- 142 - Create a signage data sheet
- 143 - Publish a shared view
November 2020
- 144 - Schedule enhancements
- 145 - Disable display filters in visibility and graphics
- 146 - Selecting multiple walls with Entire Walls dimensioning
- 147 - Customizing artificial lighting
- 148 - Using a schedule as a legend
October 2020
- 149 - Enhanced realistic visual style
- 150 - Using formulas and trigonometry to edit slanted walls
- 151 - Using global parameters to control slanted wall parameters
September 2020
- 152 - Exposing some legacy behavior lingering in Revit
- 153 - Design option alternative using global parameters
- 154 - Understanding symbolic lines and masking regions in families
- 155 - Setting up shared coordinates on BIM 360
- 156 - Using pin position with pick new host
August 2020
- 157 - Calculating occupancy code values with Dynamo
- 158 - Troubleshooting discrepancies in your Dynamo graph
- 159 - Convert In-Place Families to component loadable families
- 160 - Customize the default visibility of new 3D views
July 2020
- 161 - Using Dynamo to place wall hosted elements like windows
- 162 - Add randomization to your Dynamo window placement
- 163 - Rediscover the Activate Dimensions feature
June 2020
- 164 - Installing and using packages in Dynamo
- 165 - Using Dynamo to create many family types
- 166 - Warning for insert conflicts with wall
- 167 - Revisiting Dynamo and Excel line-style mapping
- 168 - Create a manual color fill legend for categories other than rooms
May 2020
- 169 - Face-based and work-plane-based family placement orientation options
- 170 - An inventory of opening elements
- 171 - Using a lookup table to report values from a predefined CSV list
- 172 - Using scope boxes to set the extents of views
April 2020
- 173 - Using filters in visibility graphics to indicate wall fire ratings
- 174 - Understanding architectural columns and pilasters
- 175 - Creating a custom angled pilaster family
- 176 - Hiding the edges of an imported 3D mesh in a Revit family
March 2020
- 177 - Customizing stair runs and landings
- 178 - Quickly create cutaway 3D views with the Selection Box tool
- 179 - Create a custom parameter in a view reference tag
- 180 - Wrapping titles in schedule headers
- 181 - Using Dynamo to indicate wall fire ratings
February 2020
- 182 - Partially applying view templates
- 183 - Modifying the sketch of automatically created railings
- 184 - Controlling the wrapping of text in long view titles
- 185 - Creating a stair with custom treads and risers
January 2020
- 186 - Understanding the differences between detail and floor plan callouts
- 187 - Orientation issues with face-based content and basic ceilings
- 188 - When to use basic ceilings
- 189 - Using nested families to show consultant firms on your title block
December 2019
- 190 - New in 2020.1 - Path of travel improvements
- 191 - New in 2020.1 - Visualize coordinate points for links
- 192 - Using dictionaries in Dynamo
November 2019
- 193 - REWIND - Calculate minimum and maximum values on a schedule
- 194 - REWIND - Drag a view to move it from one sheet to another
- 195 - New in 2020.1 - UI improvements
- 196 - New in 2020.1 - Attach top and base improvements
October 2019
- 197 - Leveraging existing model groups in arrays
- 198 - Why Revit renames that family to avoid inconsistencies
- 199 - Turn off the double-click to rename feature
- 200 - Understanding and customizing 3D poche cut
- 201 - Using parts to demolish part of a wall
September 2019
- 202 - Lock dimensions in the Family Editor
- 203 - Using the Grading tool to modify a toposurface
- 204 - Revit from your vacation photos
- 205 - Understanding and hacking the display properties of grids and datum elements
August 2019
- 206 - Incorporating generic annotation elements into face-based families
- 207 - Embedded curtain walls not cleaning up properly at corners
- 208 - Split walls vertically
- 209 - Copy legend views to multiple sheets
July 2019
- 210 - Using eTransmit to upgrade files
- 211 - Preventing errors when stretching unlocked wall layers
- 212 - Adjusting inserts that do not adjust to wall thickness correctly
- 213 - Make a tiled roof with sloped glazing
June 2019
- 214 - Using Transfer Project Standards to copy settings from one project to another
- 215 - Using model review to audit projects for compliance with standards
- 216 - REWIND - How to build a roof dormer
May 2019
- 217 - New in Revit 2020 - Using path of travel
- 218 - Troubleshooting Scope Box setting in view properties
- 219 - Controlling the length of view titles consistently
- 220 - Resolving an error when trying to move viewports
April 2019
- 221 - Using Excel and Dynamo to batch process line styles
- 222 - REWIND - Layering viewports on a sheet
- 223 - New in BIM 360 - Upgrade cloud models
- 224 - New in Revit 2020 - Linking a PDF file to a Revit project
- 225 - New in Revit 2020 - Creating elliptical walls
March 2019
- 226 - Worksharing display
- 227 - Force relinquish another user in cloud-based worksharing
- 228 - Drag a view to move it from one sheet to another
- 229 - Swap line styles with Dynamo
February 2019
- 230 - Shared coordinate simple setup
- 231 - Calculate minimum and maximum values in a schedule
- 232 - Using Dynamo to selectively place views on sheets
- 233 - Schedule links and groups
January 2019
- 234 - Troubleshoting missing annotation elements
- 235 - Changing a built-in parameter from type to instance
- 236 - Update the Desktop Connector app
- 237 - Exploring the Revit program options
December 2018
- 238 - Create fillet arcs with a predefined radius
- 239 - Using point clouds in Revit families
- 240 - Preserve open views when closing Revit files
November 2018
- 241 - Applying hatching to the edges of system families
- 242 - Using the Align tool to change the orientation of sections
- 243 - Leveraging support for imported AutoCAD hatches
- 244 - Understanding the family reload options
October 2018
- 245 - Using embedded images to show typ wall types
- 246 - Apply a new finish to a wall using join geometry.
- 247 - Create vaulted roofs and ceilings
- 248 - Exploring the new Recent Files screen
September 2018
- 249 - Use reference planes to line up viewports
- 250 - Rotate a section line
- 251 - Use reference plane subcategories as a detail grid
- 252 - Aligning dimensions to reference planes
August 2018
- 253 - Modify lighting families to make them easy to center
- 254 - Change the default viewport type for sheets
- 255 - Sorting a sheet list
- 256 - Editing sheets with a sheet list
July 2018
- 257 - Adding a progress set stamp to sheets
- 258 - When in doubt, right-click
- 259 - Using the Pick New Host tool
- 260 - Using fascia to model standing seam roofing
June 2018
- 261 - Performing routine maintenance
- 262 - Exporting all families
May 2018
- 263 - Custom mullion profiles
- 264 - Dealing with mullions at curtain wall corners
- 265 - Customizing curtain wall corner panels
- 266 - Reduce file size with purge unused
April 2018
- 267 - Make a curved window that matches its host wall
- 268 - Create a dot schedule
- 269 - Making curved curtain wall mullions
- 270 - Round window with spokes from a curtain wall
March 2018
- 271 - Join and cut geometry
- 272 - The new fill pattern dialog
- 273 - Creating a dedicated level for site
February 2018
- 274 - Control door swing angle with a sweep
- 275 - Use railings to create Life Safety egress paths
- 276 - Revisiting selection toggles
- 277 - Creating domes
January 2018
- 278 - Adding surface patterns to glazing
- 279 - Family save path locations
- 280 - Show nested families on schedules
December 2017
- 281 - Moves with Nearby Elements
- 282 - Understanding wall base and top attachments
November 2017
- 283 - Painting the surfaces of walls
- 284 - Duplicating materials
- 285 - Wall sweeps for moldings and trim
- 286 - Creating custom patterns
- 287 - Customizing room boundary calculations
October 2017
- 288 - Using shortcuts
- 289 - Select elements by ID
- 290 - Schedule Browser Organization customization
- 291 - Understanding and controlling double-click behavior
September 2017
- 292 - Create an ADA curb cut in a floor
- 293 - Create an ADA curb cut with a loadable family
- 294 - Export shared parameters from a file
- 295 - Workset unload by user
August 2017
- 296 - Create vaulted roofs and ceilings
- 297 - Manually Add Length and Width to a Room Tag
- 298 - Add length and width to a room tag using global parameters
- 299 - Add length and width to a room tag using Dynamo
- 300 - Custom labels in level heads
July 2017
- 301 - Convert a hosted family to face-based or non-hosted family
- 302 - Create a type catalog
- 303 - Make a material tailored to a 3D surface
June 2017
- 304 - Create a fence from a railing type
- 305 - Creating a key plan family
- 306 - Renaming families with Dynamo
- 307 - Display elements beyond with the Show Hidden Lines tools
May 2017
- 308 - Generate cloud renderings
- 309 - Get a behind the scenes look at Revit development
- 310 - Create manual tags with generic annotations
- 311 - Customize symbols using custom fonts
April 2017
- 312 - Swap out shared families and non-shared families
- 313 - Place multiple elements with Dynamo
- 314 - Understanding cutable families
- 315 - Link a point cloud to Revit
March 2017
- 316 - Custom wall openings
- 317 - Topography settings and graphics
- 318 - Using tangency locks
- 319 - Consider variations in design with groups
February 2017
- 320 - Using the Is Reference in families
- 321 - Precutting column families
- 322 - Sloped glazing
- 323 - Wall layer wrapping
January 2017
- 324 - How to create a canted wall
- 325 - Drive family parameters with a dropdown list
- 326 - Customize shared parameters
- 327 - Using the Autodesk desktop app
- 328 - Import CAD into a sketch
December 2016
- 329 - Using Railing Support members instead of Balusters
- 330 - Splitting section lines
- 331 - Understanding Revit warnings
November 2016
- 332 - Controlling the spacing of elements with global parameters
- 333 - Changing material selections globally
- 334 - Creating custom roof soffits
- 335 - How to build a roof dormer
- 336 - Creating a custom sloped ceiling
October 2016
- 337 - Using Dynamo to rename sheets
- 338 - Using Dynamo to rename views
- 339 - Using view templates to sort your project views
- 340 - Discovering the A360 online viewer
September 2016
- 341 - Customizing the schedule title
- 342 - Using the linework tool
- 343 - Creating hidden parameters in family content
- 344 - Custom detail module
August 2016
- 345 - Controlling nested families parametrically with the family types parameter
- 346 - Understanding shared families
- 347 - Managing family parameters
- 348 - Line-based families for complex linetypes
July 2016
- 349 - Making temporary Hide Isolate permanent
- 350 - Using filters
- 351 - Seed families
- 352 - Viewing list schedule
June 2016
- 353 - Sharing materials libraries
- 354 - Adding a calculated value
- 355 - Adding conditional formatting
- 356 - Copying schedules between projects
May 2016
- 357 - Putting view templates in control of your views
- 358 - Overlooked options on the Option Bar
- 359 - Sheet management
- 360 - Sheet sorting
- 361 - Revisions on sheets
April 2016
- 362 - How to move a central file
- 363 - Locking a workset
- 364 - Using a schedule to edit the model
- 365 - Creating a custom schedule property
- 366 - Creating custom view types
March 2016
- 367 - Dimensioning alternate units
- 368 - Chase examples
- 369 - Importing CAD files lineweights
- 370 - Exploding and cleaning up a CAD file
February 2016
- 371 - Creating a custom browser organization
- 372 - Customizing grid appearance
- 373 - Customizing level appearance
- 374 - Managing dimension lines
January 2016
- 375 - Customizing Revit options
- 376 - Turning on design options in Revit LT
- 377 - Using a scope box to set datum extents
- 378 - Setting up dependent views
December 2015
- 379 - Duplicating and swapping groups
- 380 - Converting a group to a link
- 381 - Equality dimensions anchor point
- 382 - Dimension equality formulas
November 2015
- 383 - Cutaway 3D views
- 384 - Rotating True North
- 385 - Reveal Constraints
- 386 - Excluding group members
October 2015
- 387 - Underpinning walls to a ceiling
- 388 - Ceiling soffit tip
- 389 - Creating similar and matched type
- 390 - Array tips
- 391 - Using slope arrows
September 2015
- 392 - Layering viewports on a sheet