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During my time in Qatar, I discovered Tim Urban's unique  Wait But Why  blog and his 2-part article on Artificial Intelligence that I re...

In the West (and I assume throughout the U.S. and elsewhere), where wood frame construction is dominant, these standards apply: Stan...

Recently I attended a user group meeting that included a presentation on Revit Work Sharing and Worksets. Eventually three different users s...

Before the advent of CAD, o n construction drawings walls were represented by two lines - which everyone understood to represent the wall’...

There are many interesting ways to use Revit's pattern-based curtain walls and panels, and this is one that must have occurred to many u...

Revit is an open system - the naming of files and family components is completely up to the user. Practice has shown there is much to be ga...

Revit facilitates an iterative process in which the output is constantly being improved.  For many Revit is the antithesis to CAD , where, d...

Line Based Tile Families - When using Revit on small scale residential or commercial buildings, while we do not model individual roofing ti...

Among the drawing efficiency improvements that were introduced in the Systems Drafting era was the concept of  "Keyed Notes".  T...

I stated that using Revit leads to expansive thinking. Often when I re-visit a recently-constructed family I add to it, enhance it or impro...

Note: In preparing material for this blog I rediscovered this 'manifesto' from the recent past... (Scroll to the end for the date)...

There are three types of Keynoting built into Revit: Element keynotes extract and report data from the ‘Keynote’ field in an object’s type...

The  South Coast Revit Users Group  is the first and foremost Revit user’s group in  Southern California . Initiated by well-known BIM s...

After a slight hiatus from the conception of this blog to its inception, we are ready to move forward. The blog will remain public and all ...