Can't Delete Toposolid Points and Guardian
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by Steve
3w ago
 A quick follow up post on my prior post about deleting toposolid points. Scott Brown isolated the issue his team was having to their use of a 3rd Party tool called Guardian. When they disabled it they could delete points as expected again. If your firm uses Guardian too then check in with them about an update to see if it has been resolved yet ..read more
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Revit 2024 - New Home Screen
Revit OpEd
by Steve
3M ago
With the recent updates to 2024 we now have an option for a new HOME screen, presenting more options for how to preview and find projects. So far it's working pretty well for me. I noticed today that some projects are "not found" while using it however. Those same projects turn up in the old Home while not showing up in a search in the new Home screen. At first I thought it was related to the number of characters in the project name or the use of special characters but so far that isn't the case. Ah the quirky stuff ..read more
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Ghost Tooltips Be Gone
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by Steve
7M ago
 This seems to be a recent phenomonon. I noticed it first in Navisworks and then occasionally in Revit or AutoCAD. What is that you ask? Well it's hard to describe. When I use a command and then move my cursor away from it to do something else a tooltip appears for that previous command. In some cases I didn't use the command, merely my cursor was hovering over it before doing something else. It's weird. I've tried disabling tooltips entirely but there doesn't appear to be a way to do that in Navisworks...or if it possible I've not stumbled on to it yet. Similar for Revit and AutoCAD. A m ..read more
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Manage Cloud Models Dialog in Revit
Revit OpEd
by Steve
8M ago
The Manage Cloud Models dialog that Revit displays is a terrible design. Utterly ineffectual. No search, no options for changing from icons to a list and it seems that it fails to list all of our projects at times. A very disappointing experience trying to use it...EVERY time. I have a sense of dread every time I think I need to open it. Lately I think...what's the point, it's not going to show me what I need. Sigh ..read more
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Delete Toposolid Points
Revit OpEd
by Steve
8M ago
Seems like a simple thing but only the Delete key on the keyboard will delete a point in the toposolid, at least while using Revit 2024.1 ..read more
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2024.1 Schema Warning
Revit OpEd
by Steve
8M ago
Glynnis with IDEATE posted information at the Autodesk User Forums that you should be aware of if you're using 3rd party tools and are going to deploy, or have deployed, Revit 2024.1. Ironic that this update is the one that has caused a potential disruptive issue since many firms wait for this point release to deploy. I've taken her initial post and copied it here, go read the entire thread for any more recent commentary. Thanks Glynnis! There's been a lot of chatter about the Schema error that was landing in a post about What's New in 2024.1 so I took the good suggestion from @RobDraw ..read more
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Dept of Subtle - Select Everything in a Property's Field
Revit OpEd
by Steve
8M ago
Sharing this because someone observed me selecting a parameter value and was curious about how I selected everything. If they didn't know...maybe you don't either? When you just click in a parameter field in the Properties Palette or Type Properties dialog the cursor will usually land where you click. You can use Home or End keys to move the cursor to beginning or end of the entry. You can also use the CTRL + A button to select everything in the field. If you want to select all of (with the cursor) what is entered, in order to replace it entirely, this is very subtle... When you move your cur ..read more
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Move Room Tool
Revit OpEd
by Steve
8M ago
Following on yesterday's post about rooms and their tags. It occurred to me that a Move Room tool might be helpful (via Dynamo or app). I imagine being able to start the command and choose a room. Then I'd choose between options for This Floor or Another Floor. If This Floor is selected I'd choose between options for Move All Associated Tags or Delete All Associated Tags and then I'd be prompted for a new location. If Another Floor is selected then under the hood the room would be deleted, I'd choose between tag options, and then prompted to choose another plan view to open, fol ..read more
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Room Tags and Leaders
Revit OpEd
by Steve
8M ago
For many years I wished room tags would turn on a leader IF I dragged a room tag outside of the room's boundary. I got my wish in Revit 2023.1. I also got more than I wished for which is not that uncommon unfortunately, thus the saying, "Careful what you wish for". When we are moving rooms around things go awry. If we drag a room to a new location the tag turns on the leader instead of bringing the tag along with it like it would for other tagged elements. When I move a room that already has a tag with a leader the leader will update and point to the new room location. However, if I decide to ..read more
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Slanted Walls Don't Miter
Revit OpEd
by Steve
9M ago
What if I'm asked to create a vertical bottom wall that will transition into a slanted upper wall? Initially the wall configuration looks like the walls on the left in the following image. I added another vertical wall at the top of the slanted portion just for fun. Each wall doesn't know anything about the other so there is no attempt by Revit to miter them together. We might have expected them to join? If we consider what happens in plan views for a similar layout (see image) I don't think its unreasonable to think that might have happened. So if an automatic join occurs in plan views mayb ..read more
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