If he need ever arises to where a the elbow of a leader line needs to be removed so that the leader is straight, simply drag the grip of the elbow inside the text box and this will turn it into a straight leader again.
This can also be beneficial if the leader needs to move from one side to another.
One of the new features of Revit 2013 was the added capabilities of the View Reference command. In the past this command was only available in views that were either a dependent or parent view. In 2013 this has been expanded to work in most view types, it doesn’t matter if they are dependent or not. This feature is something that a lot of my clients are starting to take advantage of by creating different view reference families.
By creating different types they can be used in different ways. The one that looks like a bubble can be used on legend views to call out details of legend components, the one for text can be placed near a text box so that the proper detail can be called out. I just wish these could be placed in schedules, on sheets, or heck in every view type.I a
I also noticed a quirk that has been fixed in 2013 not sure if it is because of this new feature or not. When creating a new section, call-out or elevation and using the Reference Other View feature, Revit no longer keeps the drop down list active when using the mouse scroll wheel. Therefore Revit doesn’t scroll through the list of view options, instead it allows a user to zoom in the view. Nice added little fix, I always love these little things.
The issue of only being able to print Selected views/sheets and not being able to print Current window in the Print Dialog box.
The reason for this is because before going into the print command the user had last cliked in the Project Browser Dialog instead of clicking on the screen. Simply click somewhere in the active view and not in the Project Browser first.
Ever had a dimension and been unclear as to what was actually dimensioned? If so there isn’t any need to start clicking elements on the screen to see if the dimension turns blue. Instead right click on the padlock, regardless of if it is locked or not, and select “Show Related”
This will bring up a dialog box that will have options to cycle through the two objects that are being dimensioned by that dimension segment.
Of course there is always the option to “Edit Witness Lines” and this will display all elements that are being dimensioned by the string.
I always get the question asking can you change the default value for input from feet’ to inches” in Revit. I always let users know that the input is what ever your projects units are set too, so Feet and Fractional inches will default to feet for input, however change the default setting to simply fractional inches and that will be the input (same in true for meters vs millimeters). I let users know that they don’t have to use the ‘ and ” symbols, instead use the space bar or if you are a ten key person then use the hyphen key (1’6.5″ or 1 6.5 or 1 6 1/2 or 1-6.5 or 1-6-1/2). At our ROMBiS meeting, our local BIM user group, a great tip came up about having a dim style set to inches thus allowing a user to type in inches with out having to use any of the tips above, no matter what the project units are set to. The disadvantage of this is a permanent dimension string will have be associated with the element before it can be used for input.
There is also an old tool called Revit InchWorm if you wanted to check it out, I personally haven’t used it in a very long time so not sure how well it works with newer releases of Revit.