"New" Blog - Curtainwall BIM

Last week I posted a tutorial about creating butt glazing in Revit.   Well, a wonderful reader named Jon sent me an insanely detailed email.  Jon is a BIM manager at a curtwainwall manufacturing company... Using Revit for shop drawings!  COOL!

Anyways, Jon sent me a great detailed email about some of the "real-world" issues that my curtain wall had.  For example: "In the real world, the horizontal captured mullion butts against the vertical, but the cap (the extruded element that is in front of the glass) extends to the grid line"...

 As much as I appreciated Jon's detail it was a little TOO detailed for me.  But, if you are interested in how to make curtainwalls that can basically be fabricated directly out of Revit (and shop drawings in Revit) then check out Jon's blog.  He does not have a million posts but they are high quality tutorials specific to curtainwall / storefronts.

Click here to check out CurtainwallBIM...

Cheers Jon!!

New Revit Blog - RevitCAT

I always love adding new Revit blogs to my feed readers... And you should too.  Thanks to Steve for the first link to Tim's blog...

RevitCAT
Welcome to yet another blog about all things Revit. I do not intend to compete with all those other blogs out there, so I will only post occasionally - whenever I discover something that was not already documented elsewhere.


 There are already some cool videos up so check it out...

Good Luck RevitCAT!

Revit Blogs via Revit Op Ed - What Sites to Follow?

People always ask me what Revit / BIM blogs and website I follow.  If you check out my Blogger profile you can see the specific blogs and sites I follow...

Steve, over at Revit Op Ed, has an excellent list of Revit and BIM websites... By excellent I mean more than you can even read in one day...

Click here to see Steve's list of Revit and BIM websites....

(P.S. - He marked this blog as a "Must Follow" ... Thanks Steve!).

(P.P.S.  For some reason Greg's blog (Revit3D.com) is not on that list... You should definitely follow it!)

Links to More Blogger Day Information

Check out some other bloggers along side me that will be full of information as well:

• Revit OpEd
• Revit - David Light
• Do U Revit?
• CADD Help

New Revit Blog: Revit Elemental

Nice little blog getting started over in the U.K. by Chris.

• Click here to check out the blog...

Chris already has a couple useful tips/tutorial type of posts such as this one:

Example: Instance Based Window Family

One of the methods I have used to combat this with items such as doors and windows is by generating families with instance-based parameters. In the following example we take a look at a typical window family and how we can change the way it works to in a measured building survey.

In this example we start with a window family from the standard Autodesk Library called ‘Sgl Plain.rvt’

If we want this to be an instance-based window family (i.e. able to control the width and height without having to create a new instance every time), then we need to change the parameters from Type to Instance.

Ok, so we have hit our first problem. The standard Autodesk Window category will not allow you to ‘Modify’ the Width or Height parameters so how can we change this?

…Well here’s a little work around:

In 2010 or 2011, Go to the Create Tab > Category & Parameters and set the category as something such as Generic Model and click OK.

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