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Revit 2013 3D View Rotation

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As I have been using Revit 2013 I have noticed what I like to consider a bug, or at least a change in work-flow since the last release.  Maybe I consider it a bug because I don’t like the new work-flow so don’t be jaded by my opinion.  When orbiting a model in 3D it will pick the center of the model as a pivot point, unless you select an element, this then becomes the pivot point, this is the same as previous releases.  However if you unselect that element it still remains the pivot point for that veiw (new to Revit 2013, similar to Navisworks) and to reset this you must either close the view or click on the veiw cube to reset it back to the center of the model.  I don’t know if this was by design or accident but if it could be set back to the old way this would be nice.

Custom Elevation Tags

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I was really hoping that in Revit 2013 Autodesk would have truly fixed elevation marks so that there can be lines in the symbol and have them not rotate with the symbol.  We can have it with the text in an elevation, heck a section head already has this option, why can’t it be added to the elevation marks.  I am frustrated having the symbol look like this.

Building Design Suite 2013 Bug?

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I had posted about the installation about the BDS 2013, but today I noticed a few issues after using some of the programs.  First off, it must install Navisworks before Revit because the Exporters are not there in Revit 2013.  You have to go back to Add Remove inside of Windows and tell it to update the exporters.  Once that is done Navisworks Switchback and the export to Navisworks 2013 then appears under the Addins External Tools.

The reason I noticed this is the fact that I was trying to get Rebar to display in Navisworks, unfortunately it does not go out to Navisworks with just opening a Revit model.  If you export out the Revit Model as a .NWC then the rebar will go out.  However if you export out as a .NWC file then you have to keep exporting out to .NWC as Navisworks is no longer looking to the Revit file for updates rather the .NWC file.

Of course like usual I could be doing something wrong so I will wait for updates from Autodesk Support to confirm or deny these issues.  I bet a reader of this blog will comment before Autodesk we will see.

Revit 2013 Options Bar

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For years Autodesk Revit has had issues with the options bar growing and shrinking.  Now a new undocumented feature of 2013.  When you select anything in the project browser the options bar disappears completely.  Of course this is at random and I haven’t been able to find a rhyme or reason for it.  It will be doing it for a while and then all of the sudden just stop, come back a bit later.  I had this issue in the alpha and beta but Autodesk was unable to reproduce the issue.  Continue reading →

Vasari Load Family

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While playing back and forth with Revit and Vasari this weekend I noticed a small little quirk (at least for me it’s a quirk).  Vasari doesn’t have an Insert tab on the Ribbon, so there isn’t a way to load a family into the current file.  You have to open the file and then hit “Load into Project”.  This is frustrating to me because in Vasari pretty much everything I am doing is a nested family.   I do know that I could always drag and drop the files from Windows Explorer but for me it was easier to the majority of the work in Revit and then open Vasari when I needed specific tools from it.  If I am missing the button or there is another way I would love to know.