digitalBBQ – A New Home & Fresh Start
Hey everyone! Big news: I’m moving my ramblings from revit.com.au to digitalbbq.au! This change is more than just a URL – it’s a complete refresh in content and approach. I’ll be honest, revit.com.au started to feel a bit limiting for me over the past couple of years, and it’s time for a change. I’m breaking →
Revit C4R/BIM360 Cache Cleaning Tool Update
A user reported a minor bug when selecting the 2021 file format option that the models were incorrectly →
Revit Batch Unit Converter Update
The Revit batch unit conversion tool has been updated to work with Revit 2021. For those not familiar with the tool, it allows you to convert the current document, or to batch process families to convert them from metric to imperial. →
BIM360 Docs – How to Download RVT instead of ZIP
Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you download model source files from BIM360, sometimes they’re a singular Revit model and sometimes they’re a bundled ZIP package containing the Revit links? Ever wondered why, or how to change this to get just the singular model? They’re generally pretty easy to spot in the BIM360 web →
Clear Cache in Desktop Connector 13.x
Top tip from a co-worker, the new Desktop Connector 13.x allows you to clear the Desktop Connector cache, →
Understanding the British Standard Object Naming Convention and Other Alternatives
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’d be aware that almost globally →
View References. Use them!
So even though in the BIM world we produce models, guaranteed every project that you’re currently working on you’re also contractually obliged to produce drawings. Drawings require things like notes and symbols, legends and linestyles.. and sheet or view references. When you have a large architectural background or piece of linear infrastructure, you need to →
Revit 2020.1 Prompts to uninstall when you want to install
This is one I have unfortunately come across too many times, you notice that you can’t access BIM360 →
Nested Annotation Symbols 101
Over the years, I’ve seen some interesting Revit content. One of the doozies though always seems to be →
The Drawing Status
The drawing status is maybe overlooked as something simple, but there are many different ways to approach it, →
From Dynamo to C# – Get and Set Parameters
I’m the kind of guy that uses Dynamo for practical things, an indispensable swiss army knife that I used to manipulate data. Getting and setting parameters is obviously key. This time around we look at how this is done in Dynamo and then how we can achieve that same thing with code. In this example →
Revit Bulk Unit Conversion Addin
One of the most downloaded files here at Revit.AU is the metric conversion journal script. Despite the obvious downsides of journal scripting, it works about 98.27% of the time. Based on feedback, the problems with the current journal conversion script are mostly due to user error, but occasionally even when the user followed the steps →
From Dynamo to C# – All Elements of Category
I had a few comments in response to my post on using the API to clear out a →