The Cortez Brothers opened its doors this month, settling into our new offices in Santa Monica. Production manager Nicoline Storey joins us directly from RSA, better known as Ridley Scott and Associates, where she leaves a position at Latin American-division La División to join executive producer Ed Rive...

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Reloading Families of a different Name

Have you ever renamed a family and then wanted to load it back into a project without having to swap out your families of a different name and risk losing tags and dimensions?Well its possible.In your project browser (where all your sheets/views are list at the left of screen) scroll down to the families section and expand the list.Now find the family...

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Export to DWG Known Issues

This is a compiled list of DWG export problems. Hopefully this list will see some of these issues ironed out in subsequent releases. If you have any further issues that you think should be listed or comments on how some of these issues have effected your productively please post them.1. Elements that have used the linework tool on certain category...

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Revit 9 Filters Explained

Filters are a very powerful new tool available in Revit 9.They give you the ability to control the visibility of any group of elements you define. Including their line colour, line style, and lineweight as well as whether that particular group of elements is visible.They give the user the ability to control elements in way where previously mistreating...

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Object Styles Explained

Object styles are located both in the project and in families. Every family, system and annotation category has atleast one object style. They are used to control globally how an object is displayed with regards to lineweight, colour and type. These can be overridden per view or changed throughout a project either in your "visibility graphics controls"...

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Nested Arrays & Formulas

I have recently updated my tutorial for nested arrays and formulas which was getting quite old. The tutorial is available here: Nested Families & ArraysJust in summarisation though, best practices when creating parametric arrays:1. Always use nested families for elements that are to be arrayed2. Always constrain the two defining elements of the...

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Making "Elevation" tags look like Section Heads (pre-Revit 2011)

Okay, so we can't yet make elevations look the way we want them to. This is my typical workaround that i use in my office where the elevation appearance is critical (functionally...

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Personal Wishlist - Updated for RAC2008

There are many wishlists around but unfortunately none of them capture all that I'd like to see added/improved so I thought I'd post them. I believe it will also be a good reference for new users to see what isn't currently possible (without workarounds)... Note: some of these have been taken from the AUGI wishlist forums.1. Elevation TagsWe need to...

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