Get a new tip, trick, or troubleshooting technique for Revit every Tuesday. This weekly series offers workflow enhancements, customizations, and shortcuts for every Revit user.
Overview
Syllabus
This Week's Tip
- Using working schedules
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Customizing default previews in families
- New in 2025: Align Text, Create Similar, Wrapping
- Ceiling soffit revisited
- Adding a new Revit user on Autodesk Construction Cloud
- New in 2025: Walls as finishes using Auto Join
- Setting up sheet collections
- Using display filters with sheet collections
- Working with placeholder sheets
- Understanding work plane for ceiling element creation
- Build a brick jack arch
- New in 2025: Small arrays in families
- Controlling rotation in a family: Part one
- Controlling rotation in a family: Part two
- Controlling rotation in a family: Part three
- Curtain panels from Basic Walls
- Make a list of schedules
- Converting a file to metric
- Using combined fields in schedules
- Scope Boxes: View visible and other properties
- Excluding certain doors from a schedule
- Highlight a row in a schedule
- When to use in-place families
- RPC families
- Export a legend
- Naming of exported CAD files
- Cleanup duplicate types after pasting a railing
- Create a custom awning family, part 1
- Create a custom awning family, part 2
- Adjusting plan display of windows
- Tagging and scheduling curtain walls
- Using a point cloud in Revit LT
- Slanted walls don't miter in section
- Curtain wall with an irregular edge
- Understanding room tag behavior
- Create a title block family with detail grid
- Filtering plumbing fixture schedules, part 1
- Filtering plumbing fixture schedules, part 2
- Filtering plumbing fixture schedules, part 3
- Creating a lighting group
- Displaying skylights above in plan
- Tagging groups
- Vertically compound walls
- New in 2024: Dark mode
- New features in 2024
- New in 2024: Pattern and texture alignment
- Creating a flexible rotating box family
- Creating a divided ellipse
- Light fixture with adaptive mounting plate
- Refining a light fixture with adaptive mounting plate
- Reporting host information in a schedule with Dynamo
- New in 2024: Snowdon Towers; A new sample project
- Changing default elevator families to vertical circulation
- Changing height behavior of default elevator families
- Changing height behavior of default elevator families, part 2
- Ceiling-based light fixture issues
- Shafts and phasing
- Creating and using saved selections
- Using corner mullions on sloped glazing
- Using curtain wall grids
- Using custom profiles for mullions on sloped glazing
- Make a room span multiple floors
- Follow-up to parking with railings
- Calculating averages in schedules update
- Basic sketching tips
- Understanding cutable families
- Revisiting the Options Bar
- Visibility/graphics of electrical symbols in plan views
- Railings as road striping
- Customizing the per-view display of parts
- Access earlier saved versions in Autodesk Construction Cloud projects
- Cloud-based shared parameters service
- Dynamo to add room numbers
- Level heads displaying more than one elevation
- Using different fill patterns for wall layers in section and plan
- Custom loft "stair" with custom-shaped treads: Railing
- Custom loft "stair" with custom-shaped treads: Family
- Calculating averages in schedules, part 1
- Calculating averages in schedules, part 2
- Attaching top and base for columns
- Adding detail elements to sweeps
- Colorizing ceiling elements in a view
- New in Revit 2023 View filter enhancements
- New in Revit 2023 Mesh improvements
- New in Revit 2023 Interactive solar studies
- New in Revit 2023
- New in Revit 2023 July 2022
- Using vertical opening elements to eliminate undesired folding lines Group properties and tagging
- New in Revit 2023
- Group a room area schedule by function
- Copying group data to rooms and calculating percentages
- Controlling the sheets that appear on a sheet list
- Controlling the output order to print or PDF
- Modifying the height property displayed in level heads
- Assigning materials to CAD imports
- Using Copy and Paste to modify crop regions
- Managing view templates
- Curtain wall mullion quantities
- Using and deleting a guide grid
- An introduction to the Revit.ini file
- Using Edit Path to customize a railing
- Wall Closure for doors and windows
- Using reporting parameters to query design data
- Reporting design data in project views
- Colored labels and symbols in tags
- The relationship between the IsReference setting and dimensions
- Slanted and tapered walls
- Controlling the display of callout views
- Error mitigation
- Model layout cleanup techniques
- Family creation inspired by TV
- New features in Revit 2022.1
- Using the sun path tool
- Understanding the location of leaders in tags
- Understanding architectural column join behavior
- Positioning texture maps within custom materials
- Troubleshooting rooms or spaces that disappear in the model
- Add circles around the number values in a note schedule
- Using the Soffit tool
- Creating Soffits with the Fascia tool
- Make a model family scalable by leveraging the planting category
- Using a cutout map in a custom material
- Create a custom render appearance path in Revit options
- Creating roof crickets with shape editing tools
- Working with user keynotes
- Perspective views from views other than floor plans
- Using the Steering Wheel to manipulate camera views
- Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 2
- Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 3
- Create a custom install (in Autodesk account)
- New in 2022: Modify tools remember options
- Make a lollipop tree family, part 1
- Make a lollipop tree family, part 2
- Randomize family parameter values with Dynamo
- Section heads with built-in masking region
- Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 1
- New in Revit 2022: Display filters now support phasing
- Removing all family types from a saved RFA ramily file
- New in 2022: Multicategory tags and groups
- Use Dynamo to write view scale to bar scale symbols
- Adjust roof sketch line plate heights
- Unrolling a wall in elevation
- Route analysis
- Scope box properties and copying
- New in Revit 2022: Tagging multiple elements—curtain wall mullions and more
- New in Revit 2022: Understanding tapered wall type and instance properties
- New in Revit 2022: Filter schedules by family and type and other enhancements
- New in Revit 2022: Preserve callouts when deleting parent views
- Understanding Revit line weight settings
- New in Revit 2022: Using shared parameters in key schedules
- New in Revit 2022: Resizable dialog boxes
- Revisiting the Attach Top/Base command
- Controlling void cut behavior in the Family Editor
- Tips for working with topography
- Creating an export setup for exporting to CAD
- Understanding CAD import settings
- Make a material and fill pattern follow a curve
- Leverage the out-of-the-box window, trim and muntin pattern libraries
- Reset your shared coordinates
- Discover the built-in Interference Check tool
- Troubleshooting troublesome nested families and parameters
- Configuring linear dimension types
- Configuring nonlinear dimension types
- Batch process text type modifications
- How to map CAD layers to Revit line weights
- Create a wall takeoff
- Create a signage data sheet
- Publish a shared view
- Schedule enhancements
- Disable display filters in visibility and graphics
- Selecting multiple walls with Entire Walls dimensioning
- Customizing artificial lighting
- Using a schedule as a legend
- Enhanced realistic visual style
- Using formulas and trigonometry to edit slanted walls
- Using global parameters to control slanted wall parameters
- Exposing some legacy behavior lingering in Revit
- Design option alternative using global parameters
- Understanding symbolic lines and masking regions in families
- Setting up shared coordinates on BIM 360
- Using pin position with pick new host
- Calculating occupancy code values with Dynamo
- Troubleshooting discrepancies in your Dynamo graph
- Convert In-Place Families to component loadable families
- Customize the default visibility of new 3D views
- Using Dynamo to place wall hosted elements like windows
- Add randomization to your Dynamo window placement
- Rediscover the Activate Dimensions feature
- Installing and using packages in Dynamo
- Using Dynamo to create many family types
- Warning for insert conflicts with wall
- Revisiting Dynamo and Excel line-style mapping
- Create a manual color fill legend for categories other than rooms
- Face-based and work-plane-based family placement orientation options
- An inventory of opening elements
- Using a lookup table to report values from a predefined CSV list
- Using scope boxes to set the extents of views
- Using filters in visibility graphics to indicate wall fire ratings
- Understanding architectural columns and pilasters
- Creating a custom angled pilaster family
- Hiding the edges of an imported 3D mesh in a Revit family
- Customizing stair runs and landings
- Quickly create cutaway 3D views with the Selection Box tool
- Create a custom parameter in a view reference tag
- Wrapping titles in schedule headers
- Using Dynamo to indicate wall fire ratings
- Partially applying view templates
- Modifying the sketch of automatically created railings
- Controlling the wrapping of text in long view titles
- Creating a stair with custom treads and risers
- Understanding the differences between detail and floor plan callouts
- Orientation issues with face-based content and basic ceilings
- When to use basic ceilings
- Using nested families to show consultant firms on your title block
- New in 2020.1: Path of travel improvements
- New in 2020.1: Visualize coordinate points for links
- Using dictionaries in Dynamo
- REWIND: Calculate minimum and maximum values on a schedule
- REWIND: Drag a view to move it from one sheet to another
- New in 2020.1: UI improvements
- New in 2020.1: Attach top and base improvements
- Leveraging existing model groups in arrays
- Why Revit renames that family to avoid inconsistencies
- Turn off the double-click to rename feature
- Understanding and customizing 3D poche cut
- Using parts to demolish part of a wall
- Lock dimensions in the Family Editor
- Using the Grading tool to modify a toposurface
- Revit from your vacation photos
- Understanding and hacking the display properties of grids and datum elements
- Incorporating generic annotation elements into face-based families
- Embedded curtain walls not cleaning up properly at corners
- Split walls vertically
- Copy legend views to multiple sheets
- Using eTransmit to upgrade files
- Preventing errors when stretching unlocked wall layers
- Adjusting inserts that do not adjust to wall thickness correctly
- Make a tiled roof with sloped glazing
- Using Transfer Project Standards to copy settings from one project to another
- Using model review to audit projects for compliance with standards
- REWIND: How to build a roof dormer
- New in Revit 2020: Using path of travel
- Troubleshooting Scope Box setting in view properties
- Controlling the length of view titles consistently
- Resolving an error when trying to move viewports
- Using Excel and Dynamo to batch process line styles
- REWIND: Layering viewports on a sheet
- New in BIM 360: Upgrade cloud models
- New in Revit 2020: Linking a PDF file to a Revit project
- New in Revit 2020: Creating elliptical walls
- Worksharing display
- Force relinquish another user in cloud-based worksharing
- Drag a view to move it from one sheet to another
- Swap line styles with Dynamo
- Shared coordinate simple setup
- Calculate minimum and maximum values in a schedule
- Using Dynamo to selectively place views on sheets
- Schedule links and groups
- Troubleshoting missing annotation elements
- Changing a built-in parameter from type to instance
- Update the Desktop Connector app
- Exploring the Revit program options
- Create fillet arcs with a predefined radius
- Using point clouds in Revit families
- Preserve open views when closing Revit files
- Applying hatching to the edges of system families
- Using the Align tool to change the orientation of sections
- Leveraging support for imported AutoCAD hatches
- Understanding the family reload options
- Using embedded images to show typ wall types
- Apply a new finish to a wall using join geometry.
- Create vaulted roofs and ceilings
- Exploring the new Recent Files screen
- Use reference planes to line up viewports
- Rotate a section line
- Use reference plane subcategories as a detail grid
- Aligning dimensions to reference planes
- Modify lighting families to make them easy to center
- Change the default viewport type for sheets
- Sorting a sheet list
- Editing sheets with a sheet list
- Adding a progress set stamp to sheets
- When in doubt, right-click
- Using the Pick New Host tool
- Using fascia to model standing seam roofing
- Performing routine maintenance
- Exporting all families
- Custom mullion profiles
- Dealing with mullions at curtain wall corners
- Customizing curtain wall corner panels
- Reduce file size with purge unused
- Make a curved window that matches its host wall
- Create a "dot" schedule
- Making curved curtain wall mullions
- Round window with spokes from a curtain wall
- Join and cut geometry
- The new fill pattern dialog
- Creating a dedicated level for site
- Control door swing angle with a sweep
- Use railings to create Life Safety egress paths
- Revisiting selection toggles
- Creating domes
- Adding surface patterns to glazing
- Family save path locations
- Show nested families on schedules
- Moves with Nearby Elements
- Understanding wall base and top attachments
- Painting the surfaces of walls
- Duplicating materials
- Wall sweeps for moldings and trim
- Creating custom patterns
- Customizing room boundary calculations
- Using shortcuts
- Select elements by ID
- Schedule Browser Organization customization
- Understanding and controlling double-click behavior
- Create an ADA curb cut in a floor
- Create an ADA curb cut with a loadable family
- Export shared parameters from a file
- Workset unload by user
- Create vaulted roofs and ceilings
- Manually Add Length and Width to a Room Tag
- Add length and width to a room tag using global parameters
- Add length and width to a room tag using Dynamo
- Custom labels in level heads
- Convert a hosted family to face-based or non-hosted family
- Create a type catalog
- Make a material tailored to a 3D surface
- Create a fence from a railing type
- Creating a key plan family
- Renaming families with Dynamo
- Display elements beyond with the Show Hidden Lines tools
- Generate cloud renderings
- Get a behind the scenes look at Revit development
- Create manual tags with generic annotations
- Customize symbols using custom fonts
- Swap out shared families and non-shared families
- Place multiple elements with Dynamo
- Understanding cutable families
- Link a point cloud to Revit
- Custom wall openings
- Topography settings and graphics
- Using tangency locks
- Consider variations in design with groups
- Using the Is Reference in families
- Precutting column families
- Sloped glazing
- Wall layer wrapping
- How to create a canted wall
- Drive family parameters with a dropdown list
- Customize shared parameters
- Using the Autodesk desktop app
- Import CAD into a sketch
- Using Railing Support members instead of Balusters
- Splitting section lines
- Understanding Revit warnings
- Controlling the spacing of elements with global parameters
- Changing material selections globally
- Creating custom roof soffits
- How to build a roof dormer
- Creating a custom sloped ceiling
- Using Dynamo to rename sheets
- Using Dynamo to rename views
- Using view templates to sort your project views
- Discovering the A360 online viewer
- Customizing the schedule title
- Using the linework tool
- Creating hidden parameters in family content
- Custom detail module
- Controlling nested families parametrically with the parameter
- Understanding shared families
- Managing family parameters
- Line-based families for complex linetypes
- Making temporary Hide/Isolate permanent
- Using filters
- Seed families
- Viewing list schedule
- Sharing materials libraries
- Adding a calculated value
- Adding conditional formatting
- Copying schedules between projects
- Putting view templates in control of your views
- Overlooked options on the Option Bar
- Sheet management
- Sheet sorting
- Revisions on sheets
- How to move a central file
- Locking a workset
- Using a schedule to edit the model
- Creating a custom schedule property
- Creating custom view types
- Dimensioning alternate units
- Chase examples
- Importing CAD files lineweights
- Exploding and cleaning up a CAD file
- Creating a custom browser organization
- Customizing grid appearance
- Customizing level appearance
- Managing dimension lines
- Customizing Revit options
- Turning on design options in Revit LT
- Using a scope box to set datum extents
- Setting up dependent views
- Duplicating and swapping groups
- Converting a group to a link
- Equality dimensions anchor point
- Dimension equality formulas
- Cutaway 3D views
- Rotating True North
- Reveal Constraints
- Excluding group members
- Underpinning walls to a ceiling
- Ceiling soffit tip
- Creating similar and matched type
- Array tips
- Using slope arrows
- Layering viewports on a sheet
Taught by
Paul F. Aubin
