Realistic renders and animations from your models can maximise the impact of your project and help secure contracts. A landscape architect recently asked about controlling the visibility of multiple o...

Revit can display the content of a view with more or less detail based upon the status of the ‘Course, Medium or Fine’ display icon. This is a really useful feature that can save a lot of time, but it...

You could be forgiven for not realising that Autodesk Revit has lots of 2D symbols preinstalled, because there not that easy to find. Technically, they belong to the Category ‘Detail Item’ so tha...

I had an interesting question raised recently: Is it possible to model period buildings with Autodesk Revit?  The answer is, of course, yes. Going beyond the basic answer I wanted to expand to&nb...

A recent tech support call concerned defining Rise and Drop symbols with Revit pipe and ductwork, so I thought I would share the process. Just a few steps are required: Firstly, determine the ‘System ...

Revit is brilliant in so many ways. It has some remarkable features, with each release it becomes more and more productive. But of course, like any software, there may not always be a tool for every r...

Autodesk Revit is a very powerful application and to get to fully understand the range of functionality available sometimes it is simply a case of getting your hands dirty so to speak, diving in and e...

In 'The Beginners Guide to View Range in Autodesk Revit (Part 1)' we looked at the basic concepts of ‘View Range’. Here, in 'The Beginners Guide to View Range in Autodesk Revit (Part 2)' we will inves...

This tutorial is going to discuss the concept of Revit’s View Range feature, I’ll take you through the concepts and options to control what and how elements of a view are displayed. Firstly, let’s beg...

Anyone who’s used Revit for a while knows that controlling Visibility-Colour can be challenging. There seem to be numerous methods available, which can lead to confusion. Knowing which method takes pr...