While piping up a particularly tight area a person on our team blurted out that the pipe fitting symbology is just too big. This job was being done in Revit MEP in single line.
The answer is to go into the Mechanical Settings dialog by clicking the small 45 degree arrow to the right of the Plumbing and Piping label on the ribbon. Then highlight Pipe Settings on the left and adjust the value of the Pipe Fitting Annotation Size. It's tucked away, but super intuitive once you get there.
The building SMART alliance is asking for help from its members to form what I hope will be the meat of the National BIM Standard.
Check out the call for help on their website here. Anyone can participate, that is if you belong to the building SMART alliance or the National Institute of Building Sciences. Well, I guess you could join if it were real important to you, but it feels more like a membership drive than a true call for help.
When worksharing is enabled, items will sometime get placed in the wrong workset or you may notice that something in a section view needs to be moved.
When you go to make changes the element may not play ball because it is protected by the workset it is in that you don't currently have ownership of.
A quick way to claim ownership of the element is to click on the worksets icon (circled in red).
If you are really old it may remind you of the video game Q-bert.
Once you click the icon you now have permission to make changes to the element with no more fuss.
