What Revit Wants - New Web Address

Do you visit and read the 'What Revit Wants' blog by Luke Johnson? I do and you may have noticed last week that his usual web address has been disabled by Google. 

Don't worry, Luke was quickly on to it and you can find his new web address and more here: 

http://wrw.is/here/

I have a number of links to Luke's great & helpful blog content in previous posts. I will slowly make my way through all of these in the coming weeks and where possible, link to his new site address. 

'Walls' Category for Revit Component Family

You may already know, that as a component family, the 'wall' category isn't actually available, so usually in these circumstances, I will go with a generic model family and create a subcategory or if I really need to, settle for an in-place family.

I came across THIS nice little post from 'What Revit Wants' recently as another alternative and so far it appears to works nicely.
In summary, Luke walks you through a method of saving an in-place family (which allows us to select 'walls' as a category) and save it as an RFA file.

I haven't really found a strong use case for this yet, but we'll file it under 'tips & tricks'.

'Cuttable & Non-cuttable' Families in Revit

The issue of 'cuttable' families came up again today. It's often a confusing topic of discussion and trying to explain why some categories are different to others is never a convincing argument. I posted an idea about it at the Autodesk 'Revit Ideas' Forum recently. 

The purpose of this post though, was to link you to a number of blog posts Luke Johnson from 'What Revit Wants' has written about cuttable vs non-cuttable families and expected behaviour. It may help you troubleshoot problems on the subject. Luke has also prepared an open source google spreadsheet capturing the unique properties of all the categories. 

It can all be found HERE.

Thanks Luke!!

Disable Revit Addins - Safe Mode

Late last year, Luke Johnson at What Revit Wants posted an update on a tool Stantec has developed. The tool is an addin manager effectively allowing you to start Revit in 'safe mode'. The addin manager allows you to select which addins to disable to assist in diagnosing problems.
 

Visit the 'What Revit Wants' post here to learn more.