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Revit Platform Tips and Tricks

Often it may be easier to create your geometry in products like Sketchup or AutoCAD and bring these elements into a mass family or generic family and use this geometry within your Revit projects.

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Core CAD

1. To achieve this create a schedule in the normal manner, however, add a “comments” field to your schedule.

1. To To achieve this, start by creating a new family component such as a generic model family. 2. Import the 3d DWG or Sketchup SKP file into this family.

Figure 26: Structural Column Schedule

2. Next go to your schedule and add the word “NO” to the comments columns to the elements you don’t want to show in your schedule. 3. Next go to the schedule properties and choose the filter tab. Figure 27: Comments Column Figure 24 & 25: Working with SketchUp and Revit Data

3. Save the family with a suitable name.

4. Then create a filter which filters filte rs by comment and set it to “does not equal” the word“NO” in the schedule. This will remove all the items with the comment added, from from the schedule.

4. Then load this into your project. 5. Next, place the family within your project. 6. Finally, use Revit’s pick face tool, to“skin”the form up using real rea l world building elements such as walls or curtain walls.

 There may be occasions when you want to get rid of stubborn reference planes, labels and dimensions in the standard family templates. 1. To achieve this you need to rename your rft templates to rfa (as a

Figure 28: Schedule Properties

5. Finally, Finally, right mouse click on the comments column in your schedule and choose “Hide Column(s)”to hide the column from the schedule.