Garage Doors, No Family?
I would have thought this would have been a door available out of the box. I guess Autodesk can’t think of everything. Thanks for RevitCity and all the other users out there. Support, click the link above, and contribute your family creations.
Going to RevitCity has turned into my first when solving a problem during modeling.
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Looking For Architectural True Type Fonts?
Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 2:17:10 PM | Architectural fonts
I am not digging the Arial default. I love my ARchitxt SHX font I use in AutoCAD. Well, now I can use it in Revit too. You may be looking for one too, so check out this discussion. It has links to a couple of other fonts that are free also. I tried them, and settled with ol’reliable.
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Repopulating Types When Reloading a Family - The Revit Clinic
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April 05, 2010
Repopulating Types When Reloading a Family
If you have purged types from a family in a project and then try to reload that family, you may have noticed that the purged types do not repopulate. The following is an approach you can take to bring those types back:
- Open the family in question.
- Inside the Family Editor, go to Create > Types.
- In the Family Types dialog, under Family Types, click New…
- Create a new Family Type - this will be a temporary type, so you can name it anything.
- Click OK to exit the dialogs.
- Reload this family back into the project.
- Now all of the types should be reloaded into the project. You can then go to Manage > Purge Unused to delete the temporary type, or expand Families in the Project Browser to remove it.
You can also click here for a video that illustrates this process.
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Trying to load a family from a library location will not repopulate types (as mentioned above.) But we’ve noticed creating the temporary type is not required.
1. Open the family you want to load.
2. Click “Load into Project” and types are repopulated.Why Revit looks at “Load into Project” different from “Load Family” seems a mystery.
Posted by: Chad Lueptow | April 05, 2010 at 05:39 PM
When you open the family from the Imperial Catalog and load it, you are loading a different version that what is stored inside the project, so it will repopulate them. The one thing about that is if you:
1. Open the family.
2. Load it into the project. The types should repopulate.
3. Purge them from the project.
4. Go back to the family and reload it again. The types won’t repopulate.The basic idea is that the family needs to somehow be different than the version that’s already loaded so Revit recognizes the need to update it. There are many different ways it can be done, and I’m sure some users prefer some over others. And if you aren’t reloading multiple times, loading it that first time like you said definitely works!
Posted by: Kathryn Langan | April 08, 2010 at 04:30 PM
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I did a lot of searching today for little “shortcuts” and “work-arounds”. Trying to remember to share with you too!
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Exterior Wall, Siding, and Exposed Floor
I am currently modeling a 2-Story Home. I have everything modeled the way I want it, but when I go to the elevations I see a gap where the siding and the sheathing don’t touch between floors.
My exterior walls:
- Core: 3 1/2” stud + 1/2” Sheathing
- Exterior: Air Barrier + 3/4” Siding
- Interior: 1/2” Gyp Bd
My floors: Main:
- Core: 3/4” Sub-Floor + 11 7/8” TJI + 1 1/2” Rim-Joist
- My Floors: Second
- Core: 3/4” Sub-Floor + 11 7/8” TJI
The floors are modeled to the stud to allow sheathing and siding to extend. I knew of this situation beforehand because tutorials on the interwebs say this is the way to combat your problem:
I go into the my exterior wall, select edit type, edit structure, (set preview to section) select siding, and then zoom in on the bottom of the wall in the section preview. The bottom of the siding highlights and a “unlock” toggle appears. I unlock it. I do the same to the sheathing.
Then I go to my elevations, cut a section, and zoom in to extend the sheathing and siding…
Side Bar: Why don’t the two extend independently? They should.
To the top of wall below.
I’m golden! At least I thought.
The wall joins are all JACKED now!
BUT
The floor is back to exposed.
Proposed Work Around:
- Create a stacked exterior wall for the Main Floor: Edit my existing exterior wall and add a 1 1/2” Stud (will represent the Rim-Joist in section) + 1/2” Sheathing + 3/4” Siding. Create and Exterior 1 1/2” + 1/2” Sheathing + 3/4” Siding to infill walls below Second Floor where I don’t have Main Floor wall stacked.
- Seperate and create just a 3/4” Sub-Floor. This way I will be able to extend the sub-floor seperatly under the stud walls in sections.
What do you think? I want you to comment on the Proposed Work Around, will it work? What is your experience, what works better?
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Distracted By Google+
I am pretty certain that Google has hit a homerun with Google+. I have spent “0” time on Facebook and Twitter. I wasn’t a prolific blogger to begin with but Google+ has become the platform I have been looking for. Posterous has filled the gap between all the other services for short post, fun things to share, and topics I want to gripe about. All I am saying, is I maybe moving soon. If this trend holds, there will be no need to occupy space here.
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Thank You Google
Please watch. I am moved by the bold step. I know it’s a spot for Chrome but why? I wanted find out more about Dan and his project.
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Farming of Industrialized Hemp
I would encourage you to look into all the products made from hemp. One of these, white paper, that doesn’t require bleaching. For a farmer, hemp, requires little pesticides or irrigation.
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Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise
It’s Beastie Boys so you gotta watch! How many stars do you see?
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Oil Companies Earnings, Gains High Prices, Jokes On US
“Exxon Mobil said first quarter net income rose to $10.65 billion, up 69 percent on the same period last year and ahead of an average forecast of $9.99 billion, helped by its takeover of XTO Energy last year.
Shell said current cost of supply (CCS) net income rose 22 percent to $6.9 billion in the first three months.”
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A Third Wheel for Mobility Scooters
You have to check this out. According to Gizmodo it’s for reals.
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