I have someone asking me why his dynamic block is not working as he expected. He created his own coordinate label based on this tutorial on CAD Notes. Only the northing coordinate label move, and it move strangely unpredictable. As you probably have the same problem, I decided to publish it here. First I suspected […]
Modifying MicroStation Elements
When we draw in MicroStation, we will need to do modifications. Either because we make mistakes or because it is easier and faster to just draw it and modify the drawing later. Here are the tools you can find in modify groups. Modify Element This is the basic modification tool. We only can modify one […]
Revit Sketching Tricks – Closed Polygon
Sketching in Revit is quite different with drafting in AutoCAD. It can be very tricky. In this article, we will explore some tricks we can use for sketching. There are many tools that require you to create sketch: railing path, floor boundary, ceiling, detailing and drafting, creating families, etc. You need to sketch! In this […]
Placing Wall and Material Tag
I had this question a few days ago: can we add tags to Revit walls? This question come up because the user always automatically tag his doors and windows. Door tags can be placed automatically during door placement. But not for walls. For many type of objects, we need to add tags manually. You can […]
Saving Families From a Project
Sometimes we get a Revit project file, and see some interesting Revit families in the project. Can we save it to our family library folder and use it for our future project? Yes. Open your Revit project. Using Revit Menu You can click on Revit menu> save as> library> family. Revit will open a save […]
Using Template and Setting Your Unit
There’s not much in this tutorial. However, I consider this is very important part for the rest of the tutorial. I found most AutoCAD users never aware about using template. And worse, sometimes they just open existing drawing, erase the drawings, and use the existing styles and objects. Avoid this, since this will make your […]
Exercise: MicroStation Manipulate Tools
Nothing hard about using manipulate tools. The only thing you need to do to understand and get used to it is practicing… a lot. So let’s try to do an exercise to get to familiar with it. Download and open manipulate.dgn. Here is what we are going to do: I give you challenge, and you […]
Defining Material Parameters as Instance Properties
Let us continue to explore creating our own Revit family further. We have created families with parameters. All of the parameters are type properties. What is instance properties? Let’s take a look this wall instance properties. Instance properties define how a single object is placed in Revit. An object in an instance. They only control […]
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