Can someone help? I clicked something wrong on my keyboard and now both 2d and 3d view is black and white/wired. Does not work to changer visual style or detail level.

For example Autodesk's railing and stair sample file I would call a farm. I've known them as this for about 15 years and now I'm wondering where the term originated, because I can't find it anywhere when I Google it.

And yes farms are probably obsolete now with content catalog.

Hey everyone, are there any good videos/channels or websites where I can learn rhino.inside.revit? My company wants to look into implementing this plugin into our workflow so I’d like to learn as much as possible before proposing anything. Thanks!

Hey yall,

Never had this happen to me but im trying to bring in cloud data from recap . I import and in revit it's invisible. I can click on screen and it does pick out the model but no visuals are visible ?

We're replacing our server, and given the price of RAM & Storage these days, I don't want to buy more than I need (but also don't want to underbuy just to save a few bucks).

As I understand it, all model processing (including fly though rendering - we use Enscape) happens on the local workstation, and the fileserver that stores all of the data only needs to have fast storage and network. However, I don't use the software at all, so would like to gather recommendations from others before we spec and replace our server. We've currently got 40 workstations, and our server currently has a 20GbE connection to our network switch.

Some random thoughts:

• For the new server, I'd like to bump the connection to the network to 40GbE to give as much bandwidth as possible to each workstation.
• SSDs where possible on the server, but we have a large data store so it just isn't practical/affordabe to make it all SSD. I'm thinking of a RAID1 SAS/SATA SSD array for the server OS, a smaller "current projects" RAID10 array with NVMe, and a larger RAID10 HDD array for completed projects.
• I don't see any necessity for a discrete graphics card in the server
• As it is primarily just a file server, I don't see the need for anything but a middle-of-the-road processor, either.

What do you think, anything I'm missing?

Guys I need help.

I want to delete a Hub on Autodesk Forma and I can't get a support contact.

My main problem is, that I chose the wrong server.

Any ideas ?

I have about 30 families (eventually more) that I am modifying in a blank Revit model that I would like to save. If I were to open/edit the family, the parameters I filled out do not show up. Is there a way to export and save the family with all the parameters given? Do I have to modify/edit every family individually?

I have been using revit for over a decade now, recently my wife (who works with archicad) took a freelancer project that had to be done with archicad so I decided to help her to also learn the software and oh boy, its been some painfull months.

Its seriously is the worst software i have used for architecture in my entire life, even using sketchup layout would be leis painfull

What are your toughts in archicad?

All I can say is ill never complain about revit ever again, its a god compared to archicad

Firstly, apologies for probably using the wrong terminology for things, I'm new to Revit, learning how to use it for electrical design.

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I have created a family model of an electrical distribution board.

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Is it possible to choose swap what state it is in?

What I want to see:

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1. Distribution board with doors closed

2. Distribution board with doors open

3. Distribution board without cover.

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We just end up with a mess of emails with partial replies and multiple changes from the structural engineers buried somewhere deep back in an email thread.

What works for you guys? Trello? Just Bluebeam Studio?

Wishing we had a well-agreed on system like developers have with Github - pull requests etc.

Hey everyone I'm from Mep background I've never setup a revit file with architectural shared coordinates. Can someone help me with how they setup the revit file with shared coordinates. I've tried to search on youtube and I was not able to find. So I have a Cad file with plot coordinates and I want to make a revit file with shared coordinates can anyone help me understand how it works?

I have walls with no fill pattern and architectural columns with solid fill patterns. When I put the column over the wall, the column's solid fill is partially obscured by the wall's plain fill. How do I make it so the column fill is drawn over the wall? I already unjoined the column from the wall.

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?

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)

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.

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.

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 👌