REVIT Duplex Receptacle Family Dissection

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The 'Out of the box' (OTB) Duplex Receptacle.rfa family REVIT supplies is as good a place as any to start to investigate just how a typical REVIT electrical family works.

First of all you can host it to a wall in a linked architectural model, but most interesting is the fact that there is a 'nested' annotation family within the 3D family.

When in a Plan view all you see is the correctly scaled annotation symbol (as shown on the left) but in a 3D or Elevation view you see the physical 3D elements on the right.

View the CADclip below for a breakdown and introduction to dissecting this interesting little family.

Once you get the just of it, modifying these electrical families will become much less of an issue.

REVIT - My Create New Local is Greyed Out

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Here's a great but simple tip that can stop you from pulling your hair out.

If you try to open a Central File in REVIT and you are NOT using the same version (and Build number) of REVIT that was used to create the Central file, the 'Create New Local' option is not available, greyed out or disabled.

a) If you are using an older version of REVIT then you are hooped and cannot open the file, period. Go away.

b) If you are using a newer version of REVIT then just open the file, upgrade it to your version of REVIT (done automatic) then 'save as' the file and click the 'Option' button in the Save dialog box and check off the option for 'Make this a central file after save'.

Then you need to close this new central file and relinquish everything.

Lastly you can now open the same file and the 'Create New Local' option is BACK !

I have seen this problem where the REVIT version is the same but the culprit is the 'Build Number'.

Also if this is / was a central file that has been relocated to a new folder the 'create new local' will be grey out or disabled. You need to make it into a central file again. Just open it anyway, then do a saveas click the 'Option' button in the Save dialog box and check off the option for 'Make this a central file after save'. Then you need to close this new central file and relinquish everything. Then try to open it again and notice the 'Create New Local' should be available.

Landcadd and Siteworks for REVIT

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and

REVIT with real curbs, roads, sidewalks and retaining walls !

Can you see the smile on my face : ))

I am quite excited to start learning Eagle Point's

Landcadd and Siteworks "FOR REVIT".

These two very established software products have been available to AutoCAD as 3rd party applications for many years. Tried, True and Tested.

Stay tuned for some great tips on Landcadd and Siteworks for REVIT.

We all know that REVIT sucks at adding in the surrounding landscape elements, curbs, sidewalks, roads, retaining walls, cut & fill and grading. Anything outside the building for that matter.

Stand up and say "HALLELUJAH" to these great new REVIT add-ons. But they are not new products at all, they are old products now being made for REVIT.

After installation you will see two new tabs on the ribbon with Landcadd and Siteworks Labels.

. . . . and . . . . . . awaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. . . . . . we go !

Nothing like fresh REVIT add ons, especially from a company like Eagle Point, to make my day : )

Combine this with REVIT 2013 (code named One Box) and you've got some serious power at your fingertips.

Oh and last but not least you can import and export the data via LandXML format for our Civil 3D friends !