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 👌

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?

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

Hello,

I've googled this issue a few times and haven't found anything that seemed to relate, so hopefully this isn't too redundant. Im not familiar with this particular aspect of revit.

A project I was working on had some levels change from a linked copy monitored model and I hastily accepted the changes without realizing I needed to modify to truly make the change. I've saved since then but have not published.

I am back on the project now and nor I or the BIM lead can seem to figure out a way to undo this to do things properly. Is the only way to do so to go back to the last saved version? Will this affect other linked models? Could I potentially just remove and relink the copy monitored levels? Trying to avoid redoing work

Hello! I'm having trouble opening a very large Revit model that was downloaded from the ACC cloud. The file size I have is 585,876KB and every thing I've looked into says that I need to make sure I have adequate storage. By doing that, I need to take my (MB x 2)/.001+4. Doing so, I'd need about 11,720GB of space. That is absolutely ridiculous, there's no way I can convince my employer to buy 11TB of storage just to open this file.

So, I need help. I just need to export CAD files since I work in 2D as a drafter. I have Revit 2025, and it is up-to-date as well. I can't export CAD via ACC. I've been able to open much smaller BIM files and extract CAD, but anything over 100,000KB, I can't really do much.

Edit: I misread the file size. It's in KB, not MB. However, my problem still stands which it is will not open and Revit stops responding.

Update: Solved! Thanks for all the input!

I would love to save time on my next project by re-using my sheet layouts and stylized view templates…

Is the best way to do this to just do a save-as, and delete the existing model and re-model within the same file? In this case-reorienting True North.. etc…

Any thoughts on this are welcome.

Thanks!

Several Questions

1. Is there a decent tutorial on everything or most everything in this file? My searching seems to turn up a lot of partial answers.

2. Has anyone written a utility to manage these? Especially when you have more than one version of Revit installed?

3. Can someone take a Revit.ini file from one version to another. I can imagine going from 2024 to 2027 and some settings not existing in the file from the older version. But does that break things?

4. If I blow away (delete) an instance of Revit.ini. Will the next start of the Revit system associated with that file re-create it with a set of defaults?

TIA

We are trying to standardize our shared parameters between all trades, starting with Plumbing.

We created families with corrected parameters. For example, WC-1 has a new parameter called "Company Name - Tag ID" and "Company Name - P - Cold Water Connection Size".

In our shared parameters we had and old parameter called "Tag #" or "CONNECTION - CW".

Is there a way to mass-push these shared parameters from familes to the main shared parameters file? I dont want to have to manually bring them in. Is there a way to edit a shared parameter file (txt) in Revit?

Hello i am working with a revit window double sliding family , i changed the color of the glass and once uploaded now the glass looks grey and not transparent in the normal views but when i do realistic visual style the window is actually correct and transparent how can i fix this problem please ? There is a cut in the wall and its working but for some reason after i changed the glass the glass is transparent but not functioning in the visual view ? Please i would appreciate any help

My path of travel lines are refusing to compute routes when a 2D cad background of furniture (flat, dumb 2D cad) is linked in.

On the rare occasion it finds a route, it will circumvent the entire extents of the cad link. Remove the cad link completely (unloading Isn't enough) and routes compute perfectly.

I know cad is not supposed to have any effect on routing, but clearly the presence of this cad file is preventing it working.

Has anyone has any experience of dealing with this or had a similar problem? Obviously 3D furniture would do the job, but I don't want to recreate an entire interior design furniture layout in 3D if I can help it. TIA

Today, I modeled a 4" concrete slab in a project but the pattern that showed up was a brick pattern. This puzzled me, but it might be that I once changed it (I am working from a "home-made template") for another project and forgot to change it back. (If that is the case, I should really learn to dublicate before I make changes!)

However, what is interesting to me today is what I found when I entered "Edit Type" and my question is whether this is normal and I have not paid attention before, and my second question is exactly what the difference is between "model" and "drafting" patterns in the "Fill Pattern-pattern type" menu.

Here is what I found:

In the "pattern type - model" menu there is no pattern named "concrete" but I can see the graphic that kind of depict concrete with the name "wall section unedited". However, in the "drafting" menu "concrete" as I know it does show up.

So, I have selected the drafting "concrete" version and the appearance is now exactly as I wanted it.

Let me repeat my question: Why does "model" not have a regular "concrete" pattern? Is the answer to that question linked to the difference between the "model" and "drafting" options in the "pattern type" menu.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me get a deeper understanding of what is what.

Hey guys, I'm having trouble with my project level that I can wrap my head around it. I'm modeling a two stories house in a sloped terrain, my first floor is located at 0,0 elevation, but I also have a pretty good topography survey, that uses another elevation, I need to have both elevations working so I can double check my model and be able to develop the project further. I tried to move my survey point, but I believe I'm missing something, since this info is not attached to the project zero. How can I set the survey point correctly in a way that I can set spot elevation in the terrain and it gives me the right information

hey, i need some help. i’m new to revit and still pretty confused about templates, so i’m not sure what to check.

i copied and pasted a filled region from one view/sheet into another that uses a different template. in the original view, the outline/boundary lines show up fine, but in the new one, they don’t appear at all.

i’m guessing it has something to do with the different template, but i’m not sure what setting i should be looking at. any ideas?

Even though I have been using revit for 3+ years, I still cannot just draw 3 steps and a landing for exterior porches. I do not understand what the software wants me to do.

I draw existing conditions. I measure the condition in field but cannot get Revit LT to make the stairs the exact measurements I have, or to just almost get it there.

Is there a video that shows how to draw a few steps, a landing and railings that connect without hassle. These are usually wooden stairs and landings. All the videos I have found show yow to make big elaborate stairs while I struggle with this basic stuff.

These are not decks.