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Schooled by the Spouse

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Dezi was writing an article for AUGIWorld about Revit Structure basics and I was helping with the screen captures.  It is amazing how many tips you learn from the spouse when one of you is writing a technical article.  Just as amazing is how upset you get at that same person for not telling you these tips in the past during one of the many many Revit conversations.

Anyway what I learned from her was that the ribbon tabs in Revit can actually be moved, simply by holding the CTRL key down and dragging the tab.  I don’t recommend moving all the tabs around but if your interface looked like mine and you have several add ins installed which create there own tabs the modify tab gets pretty far off the screen.  I can now stop complaining about this and simply move my Modify tab in front of all those other tabs that have been created.

Wall location lines

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So a post over at Linked In today got me thinking about walls.  When I have clients start off a project they usually start with some sort of generic wall type, then as the project develops the walls get changed out to be something a bit more specific.  Not everyone knows that when a wall type is changed it looks to the location line to know where to adjust from.  So if you change a wall and its’ location line is Wall Centerline then it will grow or shrink equally on each side, if the location line is Finish Face Exterior then it will grow completely to the inside.

When changing the exterior walls that need to grow to the inside. Select all the walls that need changing and change the location line appropriately.  This way it isn’t a crap shoot to find out if they moved in, out or equally.  When changing  all of one wall type, use the “Select All Instances >> In Entire Project” tool to speed up the process.

Autodesk Project Browser Research / Collapse Project Browser Tip

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The folks over at The Factory are wanting input from all of their Revit users.  They are wanting to see a screen capture of your project browser and the properties of it.  I would suggest collapsing the tree to just the structure and not the individual views (see tip below on how to do this easily).  Go to this post to help them out and possibly make future versions of Revit more to your liking.

Browser Tip:

If you need to quickly collapse the Revit Project Browser then simply change the Browser oganization in the Type Selector to a different one then change it back this will collapse all.  If you want to expand the entire Project Browser then hit the * key when on the Views or Sheets.