We have changed the way our Drawing Sheets are named.

Basically bought them in line with the rest of the Waterman Naming Convention.

They can be found in MasterDocs\CAD\Revit\Waterman Library\Families\Drawing Sheets and for example an A0 sheets is called W_TBL_X_A0Group.

We Have also changed the way you select your office address. These can now be changed via the Instance Properties and a drop down list.

They have been loaded into the Waterman Template.

We have changed the way the drawing banner works.

It no longer needs to be a Legend and you change the text to suit. As we have made it an Annotation Symbol and it's Instance Properties can be change the usual way via the drop down.

It can be found in Masterdocs\CAD\Revit\Waterman Library\Families\Annotations and is called W_ANO_X_Banner.

It is also loaded into the Waterman Template

It seems that there is a Network Licensing "bug" in RS2010.

Which kicks in if you leave the software idle for 10 minutes or so ( which is easy to do without even realising it ), after which time Revit will give back the license. Then when you carry on working you won't be able save as you will have entered Demo Mode.
The only way to get the license back is to exit Revit and fire it up again.

The answer until Autodesk sort this problem out ??
Save regularly.

Turning off individual elements in a linked Revit model

We often have the need to link Revit models to each other and then "Hide in View" certain bits and pieces.

As you will know if you hover over the linked model Revit will put a box around it and display some information about it.

If you hover over the item you wish to hide and hit the tab key to will be able to select it and then hide in view.

Ever wanted to stop two walls joining in RS2010 ?

This is still an operation that needs doing prior to modelling the second wall. Unless someone out there knows how to do it after the event ?

So .... Draw your wall then go to the Modify Tab and find the Wall Joins icon.

Then hover over the end of the wall you want to stop joining wait for the box to appear and select the end of the wall.This will wake up the Disallow Join button.

You now also get a nice little icon showing wich walls have been stopped from joining.

Rotating an individual view is very straight forward in Revit.

Select the Crop Region and then just use the rotate tool.

Showing hidden lines of in-place Families.

Quite often In-place Families families don't show their hidden lines and the show and remove hidden line tools are disabled when the graphics style is set to hidden line.

Strange but true.

If you switch the view discipline from Structural to Architectural then these tools are enabled.

Apply the hidden lines by first clicking the object you want to see through, then the object you want to see under.

Remember to switch your view back to Structural afterwards.