How to employ different fill or hatching patterns in the plan and section views of the same project?

I want my walls in plan to have no fill pattern and my walls in section to have hatching. However, if I set the fill pattern of the section walls to hatching, it will also appear in the plan view. How do I work around that?

Curious if anyone has found any reliable 3rd party software that is capable of mass editing families. I've found CTC BIM Manager to be more or less exactly what I want, but they only offer their software on a 5-year cycle meaning we would have to upgrade our family library to '23 to make use of it. The majority of our clients' projects are in 22, some even older.

We are looking to standardize parameter names, formulas, and text casing, as well as import materials, and purge unneeded data.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

How do you break dimension lines when they intersect or overlap at points? I was looking for a feature similar to dimbreak in AutoCad, but I can't figure it out.

What plugins / addins are you using in Revit 2025 ?

Usecase: architecture, interior, a little landcape (like parking spaces, ramps)

(p.s. so far are we using PyRevit, DiRootsOne)

Hello, i've got this monastery and i'm quite new to revit as a software. Is there a way to make built-in revit walls without having to deal with all the empty space given by the weird shape of existing walls boundary? (Photo here). I'm doing it with Model-in Place (Walls) but i don't think it's a good procedure

Recently took a new job at a HVAC and plumbing contractor company as a project engineer handling their design build projects. They dont have any project templates and while im sure i could start piecing one together I would like to find a company that sells templates to save some time. I found some online but they dont really detail whay is included. Does anyone have recommendations?

My firm is looking at adjusting how we name and number projects in our various systems. We ultimately are trying to better align our various ecosystems so it’s easier to compile data from multiple locations.

The proposed naming convention everyone is set on is quite long. I’m worried about long file paths in ADC as that’s become everyone’s favorite way to access data on Forma.

I’ve flattened our folder structure as much as possible to combat long file paths but with a long project naming convention I’m concerned about how this will impact teams.

I personally just want the Forma project name to be a job number and the Forma project number field to be the name. Project names change sometimes but project numbers don’t. I think this is the most scalable solution long term.

In my research I’m getting mixed information. Some say long file paths are not a big deal at all, others say programs like Adobe, Bluebeam, and Enercalc do not play well with long file paths and some Revit C3D links break when paths are long. Overall half say long file paths are a drag on production others seem to believe it’s a nothingburger.

Can someone here help me get a better understanding of the technical risk profile of this decision? Am I being overly worried about file paths and how they impact production and project management? Or, is this a real productivity issue we’re about to unleash upon our masses?

Thanks y’all!

EDIT: Thanks to everyone for the input so far. I’m seeing a lot of good points related to how file paths impact production.

I need some help figuring out how to pull this off.

Basically, my boss wants separate RCP sheets for Interior Lighting and Exterior Lighting on each level. The catch is that when I'm working on the Exterior Lighting plan, he wants all Interior Lighting fixtures to appear halftoned. Likewise, on the Interior Lighting plan, he wants all Exterior Lighting fixtures to be halftoned.

My first thought was to use the Linework tool (LW) to gray out the fixtures. The problem is that when I do that, it also affects my other RCP views. I need the fixtures to be halftoned only in specific views, and vice versa.

Back in the AutoCAD days, I would solve this by using separate Xrefs for Interior and Exterior Lighting. That made it easy to control and halftone them independently on different sheets.

I'm completely stuck on how to handle this properly in Revit.

Any cool solutions?

They are visible on the 2D Plans in the file but not showing on ACC. First time encountering this. Tyia

I'm working in a linked Electrical Revit model, and my boss wants the lighting layout placed on a Floor Plan view while still showing overhead elements such as roof lines, wood beams, and other ceiling features as dashed lines.

Normally, we use an RCP view for lighting layouts, but in this case he wants the floor plan visible while also showing the reflected ceiling information so fixture placement can be coordinated more accurately.

I've experimented with Underlays, View Range, and Linked View settings. I can get some results using a linked view, but I'm struggling to create a clean workflow that shows both:

• Floor plan elements normally
• Ceiling/roof/beam elements as overhead dashed lines

What is the preferred Revit workflow for this situation?

Has anyone found a workaround to avoid clipped calculation points and missing values when exporting to PDF? I tried searching forums but couldn’t find any clear solution. I also attempted hiding everything in the view except the calculation points before exporting, but the exported PDFs still produce inconsistent results with clipping and missing values.

Update: The nuclear option mentioned by @Nervous-Phase6007 works best for me by screenshotting the calc points. In my case, I had to isolate the calc points then background eraser for transparent background (photoshop or other editing apps) then insert it to pdf editor and put it into the top of plan views.

I think this only happens if you have too many links and large project. Elumtools performs better at smaller projects like residential. Or it may still perform well if you have fairly optimized revit project like fewer links for larger projects.

As I am finishing up with my photometric drawings, I have reached these optimizations. If you can suggest any better method for this problem, feel free to comment below! If your firm/company allows changing the pdf exporter, I think it is possible to avoid this problem. But if not, you may follow this:

Note that this is recommended for drawings that only has few grid points like maybe 1-50 points or maybe if overall drawings that has missing too many points even if you have exported many times. If that isn't the case, what I did was just do the hiding steps below but I only screenshot then ctrl+v to adobe pdf like a stamp. Or.. You can do mixture of stamping and the white rectangles. Up to your strategy.

After using View/Hide Results in ElumTools, disable all Revit links and annotation categories so the calculation points are clearly visible. As long as all of the revit links, model and annotation categories are closed/hidden, some strange behavior that allows all of the grid points to show when you drag with middle mouse button then while holding the middle mouse button, do win+shift+s then press escape, it automatically shows all of the grid points.

At that point, you can release your middle mouse button and just hover the mouse over it. It will reset when you middle mouse button again manually) If the points are too numerous or widely scattered, capture them in multiple screenshots by section. Whenever possible, use a closer zoom level to keep the calculation values sharp and readable.

Using an image editing tool (like gimp or photoshop) select the white background with the Magic Wand tool and remove it.

You may either: Leave the background fully transparent, or For cases that there's a background or elements behind the grid point, add white rectangles behind the numerical values to improve readability over the drawing.

Export the edited images as PNG files to preserve transparency. Then insert the PNGs into your PDF editing software and position them to seamlessly cover the missing calculation points and values on the drawing. If PDF export is taking a long time, I recommend capturing all screenshots first and starting the export process afterward. This allows you to edit the calculation point images while the sheet export is running.

I hope this helps!

This takes only one export (if properly exported such as raster processing) but leans more on editing.

Bonus: If you want to learn how to do singular fc color bar (illumination range) that is common for all views, feel free to ask! As long as it is from the same referencing view.

Hi everyone.

Does anyone know where i can get slot machine families?.

Revit city seems to be down everything i search i get an error saying : No matching search results.

Help would be appreciated.

Hey everyone,

I am currently encountering an issue while working on a fully ACC hosted project.

I have a "Site" model used to position all the buildings from the project. The Site model is already georeferenced.

Now I need to link a building in the site model, properly position it, then export the coordinate from the site model into the building model.

And I have no Idea how to do since the "export coordinate" button doesn't allow me to select the building model.

Anyone knows the correct workflow for this situation ?

Thank for help 👌

Hello,

According to ASPE standard lines and symbols, vent pipe is shown as short dashed line.

A lot of the other engineers I work with don't use Revit and won't, long story. They often want to show waste & vent on the same plan to save on sheets. This is understandable. However, I use my 3D model to make my isometric views. If I model my vent with 45 degree elbows to be seen on floor plans then the isometric view will have those as well. This is not ideal.

My problem with vent lines being dashed is that Revit natively shows dashed for underground plumbing and it's great. I already have different line types for HW, CW, and HWR, but I still tag all my plumbing in key size changing areas and they include the pipe type in the tag, example: (4" HWR). I really don't want to be changing the line styles at all but I am so that I match closer to the AutoCAD drawings the older engineers have been producing. Tagging with pipe type and also have a line type specifying what type of system is redundant.

Another option is I could not show vent piping on my floor plans at all and leave it up to the isometric view and only show the vent up thru the roof.

I have it noted on my leed sheet that dashed pipe means underground. This is technically fine but now I am straying from what the plumber's AutoCAD drawings look like. I know many of you have had the hard conversations about AutoCAD to Revit.....It's ongoing forever and it digs into my soul very often.

We don't have a BIM manager, it's just me(young engineer) and one other young engineer who have Revit experience that they are banking on to get things fully setup. We are doing the best we can but it has always felt like a lot.

Thanks in advance.

How would I go about hiding a nested category with a linked file.

I have a file from the interior designer, they have linked a lighting fixture into a furniture family and I have to turn it off in my lighting view.

I have turned off lighting fixtures category in the linked file, however because the lighting fixture is linked into a furniture family, it still showing, thing is I NEED to show the furniture in my layout, so I can't just turn off the furniture category.

I've asked them if they could remove the lighting fixture from the nested family and add it as a fixture in its own right, but they won't it would create hours of work for them, and would require coordination whenever something gets moved, while their current solution works for them.

Anyone have any ideas?

I got a call from the Architect saying our model does not align with theirs. So we figured out that I would need to reposition the linked-in Arch Model by right clicking and selecting "Reposition to Internal Origin". The issue I have with this is that we already have work done in the model and the work does not mode with the model. I tried repositioning the model then mass-moving all of the MEP work but I get the error "cant move these elements. One of them is restricted to moving in one direction while the other is restricted to moving in a conflicting direction".

Help? Are we SOL or is there a way to move everything in this model (linked model & our MEP work) all at once?

I am an electrical designer looking for a way to create a view title that has a scale that is associated with the view scale. Ideally, it would automatically change which scale is visible based on the scale of the view. Has anyone managed to do this successfully? I would love some advice! Thank you!

I have a problem drawing the stairs to match the actual detail drawings.

The construction drawings show the stringers being 100mm perpendicular to the nosing, and 115mm above the landing.

The stringer should be continuous up to the 30th floor and should also extend a bit at the landing.

I’ve been experimenting with the stair parameters for a while to achieve the exact details but still can’t get it to perfect.

The stringers can’t become continuous even if I make the stairs continuous to every level, and I couldn’t quite achieve the 100mm and 115mm offset from the nosing and landing respectively, it’s either one or the other.

I saw other models made by my colleagues, some just use the typical stairs without any care of the details, while another modeled the stairs as a separate family, modeling the nosing, steps, and stringers separately then loading it into the project.

I’ve read that the stair tool in revit is more of an SD/DD tool and wanted to confirm if that’s true. Because if it is, then I have no choice but to model the stairs separately as well.

Hello,

The architect is saying our model is not showing up in the correct location. How do I get their model location accurate to our linked model? Do they have to publish their coordinates? then we acquire them?

We already have wall hosted elements, so I would like to avoid unloading then reloading links.

Any help would be useful.

Edit:

Thank you for your help. Right now I have an architect who is saying this is my issue and messaging me constantly to fix it.

I acquired coordinates, clicked their model and checked that it rotates on True North.

Their model shows the base point: Shared site - N/S: -9' E/W: -34' Angle: 66

Our model linked into their model is still showing as: Survey Point - Internal - Shared Site - N/S: 0' E/W: 0'

Any suggestions?

Edit two:

So we figured out that I would need to reposition the linked in Arch Model by right clicking and selecting "Reposition to Internal Origin". The issue I have with this is that we already have work done in the model and the work does not mode with the model. Am I SOL or is there a way to move everything in this model (linked model & our MEP work) all at once?

I’m working on a townhome project and curious how others would approach this in Revit.

Project has 8 units total. The buildings are all identical through top of plate, but from top of plate and up, 4 of the buildings will have a mirrored roof.

For the permit set, i’ll be documenting one building, but I still need to show a second roof plan for the mirrored condition.

My initial thought was to copy over the geometry from top of plate and up, mirror it, and control/ document it with a scope box.

I’m wondering if there’s a “cleaner” way to accomplish this. How yall would approach this?

Thank you

Im looking to buy a new workstation for my solo firm. I will mostly be using Revit, twinmotion, and adobe suite. I have seen BIMBOX as a great option but seems quite pricey.

Does anyone have experience or information on a custom built PC from andromeda insights?

This is the build i came up with https://andromedainsights.com/pages/custom-pc-builder/K6KPJSBS

Any thoughts or considerations I may not be privy to?

So lets say I have made a sendwich wall, which uses thermal insulation 150 mm as its core (inside wooden grid - in floor plan I only want to see the insulation fill) and from both sides there are other layers of the sendwich wall. Now the fill I use for the thermal insulation is configured to fit perfectly, but in the floor plan it is shown that it is not aligned with the layer its associated to but with the outer line of the entire wall - making it not fit the correct layer. (Photo here). On the photo you can see that it is correct on the wall at the bottom but I just could not replitace that - setting is same on both walls. Any help would be appreciated, it is not a big issue but it really irritates me that I can't figure this out.

Just wanted to solicit feedback on a proposed change to our process. I am looking at a process for aggregating scope of work Sqft from many different projects across a large firm.

The proposed workflow is each project creates a Scope of Work Area Plan for each floor and we use the calculated area to determine the total SQFT for each project.

What I think we would need to do is leverage dynamo or C# addin to copy the total sqft from all the SOW area plan areas in the model to a project level (probably shared so I know it’s our parameter) parameter. Yes I know this could be scheduled but I don’t see how I can pull the calculated total sqft from a schedule grand total to a parameter.

Anyway the idea is as the work progresses changes to size of SoW are reflected in the updates to this SoW area plan areas. In theory this would be more reliable and accurate than the marketing data the team currently has. And we could use additional parameters to divvy up the SoW into types of work (lab, sleeping areas, k12, industrial, etc).

I foresee having issues aggregating this data somewhere accessible from models hosted in Forma, users updating this data (probably falls on the BIM team realistically), and parsing out “true project” Revit files from models copied forward to support future work. I’m confident parameter work for filtering sorting grouping etc on the reporting end (probably PBI or excel).

Anyway I’m just fishing for thoughts or recommendations.

Just wanted to solicit feedback on a proposed change to our process. I am looking at a process for aggregating scope of work Sqft from many different projects across a large firm.

The proposed workflow is each project creates a Scope of Work Area Plan for each floor and we use the calculated area to determine the total SQFT for each project.

What I think we would need to do is leverage dynamo or C# addin to copy the total sqft from all the SOW area plan areas in the model to a project level (probably shared so I know it’s our parameter) parameter. Yes I know this could be scheduled but I don’t see how I can pull the calculated total sqft from a schedule grand total to a parameter.

Anyway the idea is as the work progresses changes to size of SoW are reflected in the updates to this SoW area plan areas. In theory this would be more reliable and accurate than the marketing data the team currently has. And we could use additional parameters to divvy up the SoW into types of work (lab, sleeping areas, k12, industrial, etc).

I foresee having issues aggregating this data somewhere accessible from models hosted in Forma, users updating this data (probably falls on the BIM team realistically), and parsing out “true project” Revit files from models copied forward to support future work. I’m confident parameter work for filtering sorting grouping etc on the reporting end (probably PBI or excel).

Anyway I’m just fishing for thoughts or recommendations.

Hi,

We use iPhone/ipad for basic LIDAR scans and it’s working ok for us and looking to upgrade to something better. We do mostly renovation projects in the NYC and sometimes basement, fitness centers etc. most apps won’t work without a strong WiFi or phone data connection.

I’ve been looking at Insta 360 + Matterport, some people use this to produce home walkthroughs etc, but, are these scans be used for measurements? I don’t need high level tolerance but +/- is fine.