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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Revit TIp - The All Powerfull i-Drop

Cool tip from Scott over at Revit Jedi that you should think about when looking for Revit content...

I had a colleague show me this nice little feature from Autodesk.
It'll look familiar if you've use AutoCAD Architecture before.

The i-drop indicator allows you to simply drag and drop content from the web into your drawing session or Revit project.


A great example of this is the furniture from Steelcase, here you can drag and drop (using the i-dropper) furniture symbols into your Revit project. 


Very handy tool which works great. You can test that it works on the Autodesk web site where you can download i-drop.



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Philip Chan · 612 weeks ago

This is one of the things I would totally disagree for an office to utlilize this "i-drop" tool and bring families into your Revit project. From my experience, many of the manyfacturer provided families have their own naming convention, custom object style as well as imported object that should be kept out as "resource" for library content. Bringing in those content without a reviewing them will be problemic down the road.
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Phillip,

I can definitely understand your concern. But on the other hand... for the person who does download and review the families you can drag and drop it but place it in the ribbon and not the view ... this will open the family instead of load it... Then you can review, save as, and load!

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