Perhaps one of the most powerful yet underused features of Revit, Worksets facilitate collaboration with your wider design team Defining Worksharing Worksharing is a design process that allows multiple team members to work on the same Revit project model at the same time. Team members share a “central model”, and dividing Revit projects into worksets can help to accommodate the collaborative, multi-user environment. The central model stores the current ownership information for all worksets and elements in the project. This ensures that only one member is allowed to be editing a particular par ..read more

Revit comes with a library of rebar shapes which can be used and customised. In addition to the standard rebar shapes you can also create your own custom rebar shapes. Adding your own rebar shapes is simple and I will show you how to do so in this blog. First of all, you will want to be able to access the Rebar Shape Browser, which will automatically appear when you start the Rebar command. To start the Rebar command, on the ribbon bar go to the structure tab > reinforcement group and in there you will see the Rebar command ..read more

Revit makes adding Rebar quick and easy. There are a number of tools relating to rebar and structural reinforcement, for today we will keep it simple and add some rebar to a foundation wall. Here we have our foundation wall and footing which we need to add some structural reinforcement to. The first thing we need to do is start the Rebar command, this can be found in the “Reinforcement” group on the “Structures” tab on the ribbon bar. You may see the following notification, simply click OK for now. Once in the Rebar tool, you will have access to The post Model Rebar In Revit appeared first on ..read more

Inside of Revit, it is quick and easy to pull information from different elements within your model, especially using out of the box parameters that come in by default. Functionality such as scheduling, tagging, and other information based workflows can be extended to be even more productive if you link this to custom data that is stored against your projects and components. Firstly, it is important to note that this workflows will generally work with most versions of Revit. Whilst the examples and screenshots given in this blog are for Revit 2024, you will find that the same steps are The pos ..read more

Want to be able to add text to your Revit Families but you don’t know how? Adding text is easy if you know how, your first call of port might be to simply use the text tool in the family editor however this is just going to add the text as notes in the editor and it isn’t going to display in side a project. So how do we get that text to display? When creating Families we can do something known as nesting Families, simply put this is when a family is inserted into another family. By creating the The post Revit – Add Text to Families appeared first on ..read more

Autodesk Revit is a very powerful 3D modelling application which has revolutionized the way architects and designers approach building design. In the past, we used CAD applications such as AutoCAD. Before that we had the good old drawing boards. Revit is the next step in this evolutionary path to being able to draw more efficiently. So why make the switch to a 3D BIM application such as Revit? There are several benefits to building in 3D with Revit… Revit is a powerful and versatile tool with many capabilities and is designed to work well with other more specialized applications. By The post R ..read more

Revit is setup to make most tasks quick and simple to use, and foundations are no different. Using one of the standard project templates, everything should be configured ready to go. In the short example I will show you how to add a simple foundation to the base of a wall. In the below image ... Read more The post Wall Foundations In Revit appeared first on Man and Machine ..read more

In Revit it may be necessary to create openings in walls, floors or roofs for example. There are a number of ways you can do this and each way will have different behaviour’s and constraints. In this blog we will take a look at the 3 most popular ways you can create opening within Revit. ... Read more The post Create Openings In Revit appeared first on Man and Machine ..read more

Depending on the template used, the structure of the Project Browser within Autodesk Revit may vary. In some instances views may be organised by project levels, and in others they may be organised by discipline. This “Browser Organisation” can be changed and customised. What is the Project Browser? The Project Browser is our main way ... Read more The post Revit Project Browser Organisation appeared first on Man and Machine ..read more

Revit has a number of graphic and display settings which you can use to change the appearance of your views, such as adding shadows, jittery lines and visual style. Some of these you might be familiar with such as the visual styles, but the other options are less obvious to find and often missed. In ... Read more The post Autodesk Revit Change Graphic Settings appeared first on Man and Machine ..read more