Wednesday, February 27, 2013

MS Word Tutorial Heading Styles and Table Of Contents

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Here's a CADclip video tutorial on using Headings and Table of Contents in MS Word 2010.

I enjoy doing a little writing and documentation and really like the look of an organized professional paper.

The CADclip below outlines some very simple steps to turn your basic documents into professional looking papers by using MS Word Heading Styles and the Table of Contentas (T.O.C.) tools.

Your reports and written docs will never look the same . . . Enjoy ! 


Friday, February 08, 2013

Thursday, February 07, 2013

REVIT Skinny Parameters Button PERFECT !

I have made a small but consistant living on showing people the skinny, tiny, little parameters button on the REVIT properties palette.


Stretch the palette wider and that little sucker stays exactly the same size. Thank you. When training people I usually hold back on the existance of this little beauty until the time is right. Then BAM ! I  blow their minds.


Thanks autodesk . . . who ever said you don't care about us trainers.


It's our little money making secret . . . shhh . . . 
d  o  n  '  t           t  e  l  l          a  n  y  o  n  e .


Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Sunday, February 03, 2013

All REVIT Imperial Detail Families Project


Imperial Version

Below is an Imperial project file with all of the REVIT 'Detail Items' placed and organized.

Download the Imperial Project File with all of the installed Detail Families loaded and placed in a drafting view.

Here is a link to the blog post with the Metric version and a video demonstration.

Here are a few sample images of what's in the project file.





Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

All REVIT Detail Families Project

Metric Version

Below is a Metric file, a video and images of all the REVIT 'Detail Items' that come installed with REVIT 2013.

Download the Metric Project File with all the Detail Families organized and placed in a drafting view.

For all my long time American friends here is a link to the Imperial version of the same thing.

Below are a few sample images and a video demonstration.

Enjoy !






Thursday, January 24, 2013

CADclips 4b Rule for Custom Families

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Bones, Brains, Balance and Body
Use the '4B' rule when creating a custom REVIT family from scratch.
It's essential.
View the CADclip below for an explanation.
  
 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Awesome REVIT Sloped Balcony Family

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 Slope a balcony properly with REVIT 2013 family 'void'.

If you've ever tried to propery slope a balcony in REVIT (as shown in the images posted) you know it's a challange and a very time consuming chore to attempt. Even with in place familes.

No no. This is an external rfa family file, and what an awesome familiy it is. Use this very same technique to do all kinds of things now. 

See the CADclip video below for a demonstration.






  




Tuesday, January 22, 2013

REVIT Elevation from a Callout View

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Create 'Floor Plan' Callouts instead of 'Detail' Callouts.
If you plan on creating 'Elevation' views from within the Callout view, then make the callout view a Floor Plan or Structural Plan Type, not a 'Detail' Type.
See the CADclip below.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Daryl and his Hero !


I was tickled to Cross Paths with my hero 'Eric Braeden' from Y & R (aka Victor Newman). The cute waitress at the airport bar let out a squeel, I grabbed my iPhone and seized the moment !

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Monday, December 17, 2012

Save REVIT Screen Space

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Use 'Show Panel Titles' to save vertical screen space in REVIT by right clicking a Ribbon Tab, then the Show Panel Titles toggle.

Little as it may be, it's there to be used and .... IIIIIIIIIIIII use it.



REVIT Halftone Tip for Sketch Mode

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The 'Halftone' setting controls how bright or faint the existing linework displays when you go into 'Sketch' mode in REVIT. You can find the 'Halftone' setting under the 'Manage' tab on the ribbon.
I definitely do recall being annoyed in the past when you go into sketch mode and you have the pink / magenta lines and the rest of the model all but disappears.
I believe it may also depend on your monitor, resolution, video card and display settings. By default it usually works ok so this is why most people never come across the problem.

But when you do . . . . . . it sure is annoying.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

REVIT Training Video Using Detail Lines and Custom Line Style

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Above is a nice little REVIT 2013 Training Video on using Detail Lines with a Custom Line Style to draw the dashed line representing a shelf for a closet.

Tuesday, December 04, 2012

REVIT Unable to Write to XX it is Read Only or Opened by Someone Else

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I see this same REVIT error a few times a week with different users when trying to 'Synchronize with Central'.

So, in REVIT you are able to 'Create New Local' file BUT then when you try to sinc you get the error above.

My hard earned (head banging) experience has uncovered that this is almost always caused because the User does not have 'Editable' rights to the folder the file is saved in.

Do yourself a big favour and make sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the user has 'Editable' rights to the folder.

Do this first and foremost before you bother wasting your time trouble shooting any other potential causes.

This should be the number 1 item to check on before doing anything else.

Don't 'assume' anything. Make sure the IT people actually visually varify this, (preferably with you by their side).

Monday, November 19, 2012

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

REVIT 2013 Cable Tray Video Tutorial

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One key to successfully routing Cable Tray, Duct Work and Piping is leaving enough room for the fittings to go in, in order to make the transitions and 'bends' either laterally or vertically.
The CADclip below should help you out in your day to day routing chores.

Thursday, November 01, 2012

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

REVIT MEP 2013 Hot and Cold Water Plumbing Tutorial

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As shown above,
below is a nice 13 minute video tutorial on
REVIT MEP 2013
Hot and Cold Water Plumbing.
. . . . with a little added lesson on View Filters.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

REVIT MEP 2013 Tutorial Sloping Pipe System


Below is a great CADclip REVIT MEP 2013 Tutorial on 'Sloping a Pipe System'.
We've come a long way !
  


Monday, October 15, 2012

REVIT 2013 Video on Graphic Design Options

Below is a great CADclip on using the REVIT 2013 Graphic Design Options.

These new options which include Background Images, Photographic Exposure, Transparency and much more are all available in various views such Sections, Elevations, Perspective and isometric 3D views for Hidden Line, Shaded, Consistent Colors and Realistic visual styles. 

You can also save these settings to a View Template to apply it to other views.

These are all features used to enhance the visual effect of the views but do not require 'Rendering'.

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Daryls Picks Free REVIT Training Custom Beam Families



REVIT comes installed with many beam families. The best way to create a custom beam family is to use an existing beam family and rename it. There are also predetermined Beam Family template files at your disposal.

In this tutorial series (amongst other things) we learn how to nest ‘profile’ families and parameters three levels deep to facilitate our project beam outcome. This ‘nested profile’ lesson on it’s own is extremely valuable and transcends to other REVIT family applications far beyond just beams.

These lessons give you the tools to go forward and create your own custom beams.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Daryls Picks Free REVIT Training Datums Views Crop Regions Scope Boxes and Reference Planes

$50 - 1 Year CADclips Video Training Subscription

I have absolutely no doubt that many people continue to struggle with Datum objects in relation to Views, Crop Regions and Scope Boxes. There are some things that just cannot be explained with words and still diagrams.

Behold all the answers in these CADclip video tutorials I thought I knew it all myself until I was challenged in creating these lessons.