Last Thursday RUGDM once again held their monthly Users Group meeting at Avatech Solutions. A few new faces decided to turn out for this informative event, and hopefully will continue to do so as all input is welcomed and encouraged.
A follow up to the sites two tutorial articles on project organization started off the meeting. Naming, filters, phases, and working versus sheet drawings were all things highlighted on this subject. It always seems to be a common question, but one that never gets fully addressed on blogs and forums. I think it finally gave everyone the chance to ask or hear those common questions we all have floating around in our head.
Line weights, object styles, and line types were next to follow suite. Although a lot of this is purely based on individual practice and company standards, there is a lot that is similar which we touched on that evening. Line weight begins everything as it’s the seed that controls all other visibility parameters. We branched off into object styles and line styles and how all three are connected to produce the clearest and most concise project drawings. This helped explain and highlight the importance of drawing management to produce the most effective and consistent project drawings.
The evening concluded with the ever popular question and answer session. Design Options, In-place Families, and Visibility were just some of the areas that proved to become useful for many users alike. As I pointed out during the meeting, don’t forget to submit topics to the RUGDM site for further discussions between meetings.
Thanks for all who attended and keep checking back for further discussions on meeting topics. The next meeting will be November 13th from 6-8pm at Avatech Solutions. Also, if you would like to share any projects or current practice of using the software please let me know. RUGDM is always looking for eager individuals to share with the community.
I hope everyone has had a chance to play around with naming conventions and project browser organization. This is a very important tool when it comes to project management and productivity. Although it seems very insignificant, this is probably one of the most important Revit customizations a firm could do to improve current drafting processes. So we’ve tackled the naming conventions of the project views, but now we need to organize them in a meaningful manner. Of course, this is completely custom to your firm’s standards, but for this example I will make use of my everyday work flow. Hopefully this will translate some of the help files provided with Revit and even provide examples in a real working environment. So let’s get started.
One of our fellow Revit users and user group attendees has posted a great article about view naming and some standards to apply to help faciliate great project browser organization. I wanted to highlight this article to ensure everyone gets a chance to view it along with many other topics provided in his blog.
With Labor Day come and gone, summer seems to be officially behind us. Of course this weekend you have the rivaled Iowa – Iowa State football game, but none of that prevents local Revit users to get together for their monthly users group meeting. It’s been great to see the regulars, but it’s even better to see new faces take a part in it all.
Is there a way to accurately move text around? If someone wanted to put a label at the mid point of a line or align annotation objects in a column or row?
With the introduction of component families with the Revit software, typical drafting and plan representation is thought of in a whole new way. So one user asks, what is the preferred method for representing an electrical plan? They could use detail components on a duplicate floor plan with just drafting lines, etc like they did in good old AEC days, or they could utilize the modeling components that are shown in the RCP and again using drafting lines, etc to represent an electrical plan. So how do you create an electrical plan?
Opening the file gets this message : cannot find resourse string no. 13758, 13484, etc. in resource aecbase 60.
Anyone recieved this before?
If anyone is fed up or having difficulty with Revit 2010’s new ribbon interface and are interested in using the classic Revit UI in 2010, it is very easy:
1) Exit Revit.
2) Create a text file named “debug.ini” in \<Revit folder>\Program\
3) In the new “debug.ini” file type:
[DebugModes]
Use2009UI=1
4) Save the file.
5) Restart Revit.
Voila! You are now running Revit in the classic interface. The only drawback to using the classic interface is that the new dynamic massing tools are not available. Other than that, it works perfectly. Also, benchmarks are showing that 2010 with the classic interface runs 30% faster than 2009 did. This technique and statistic are from the AUGI Revit forum.
Things that make you go “Hmmmm”.
Within Revit Structure you have the option of creating multiple types of footings. This is an excellent tool, but adds difficulty in scheduling. If using a footing pad, users can create a footing schedule, but when using a continuous footing users have to use a wall schedule instead – thus causing multiple schedules for one type of object. How would you handle scheduling?
