New AUGIWorld - Go Get It

The New AUGIWorld is out. This is the one with the salary survey, so here is hoping you make too much money. Melanie Perry really up'd the bar for the 10th anniversary of this series.


Check out page 44 for strategies for memory management when dealing with Revit MEP by David Raynor.


Beth Powell lays out part three in her series on how to implement AutoCAD MEP. Stay tuned next month for the final installment which goes through some real world issues.


Marcello Sgambelluri has a really interesting article on create complex geometry in Revit.


All in all, it's another do not miss issue.

Filtering Out Colored Duct for Architects

In Revit MEP 2012 the use of systems for duct and pipe gives color to those entities. Nice for us. Getting that visual indication makes a huge difference in being able to differentiate supply, return, exhaust, and cold, cold water recirc, and vent. I found out the other day, architects aren't so keen on it. They have been getting around previous methods of us color coding things, but the use of systems might catch a few off guard. When at a loss on how to handle the colorful MEP model one of our clients called on Joe Eichenseer at IMAGINiT for help.


Joe slam dunked it will a filter for the architect.

Then changing the color and line weight when applied.

Another satisfied customer. Thanks Joe!

Spell Check the Whole project

In 2012 things work great, but in older versions for what ever reason Revit's Spell Check function only checks what is in the current view. To spell check a project, each referenced view must be opened and spell checked.


Here is a  tip on how you can spell check MOST, if not ALL, of an old Revit project.

1.     Go to any view that has a text note.

2.     Select the text note and right click.

3.     Choose "Select All Instances..."

4.     Then choose "In Entire Project..."

5.     On the Ribbon, select "Spell Check"

This will spell check every note of that Text Type in the entire project. 
Repeat the steps for any other Text Types in your project.  
This will leave out text objects inside groups, families, etc...  But, it is better than nothing at all.

Revit 2012 Family Standards

Shawn Zirbes is the Chief Technical Officer for Integrated Content Solutions and CAD Technology Center. A few years back he summarized his experience with Revit families in a book that applied to 2010 content. Well, he is back and expanded for 2012.

I use the 2010 version as a resource at work and as required reading in my college courses. A concise yet in depth look at families that is easy to read for the beginner, yet full of cutting edge information for the super user. Neatly organized and well presented.


Bravo Shawn.


Find out more or buy the book by clicking here.

Rotating While Worksharing

Every once in a while I would notice when rotating objects,the icon for moving the base point of rotation was not visible. After a little experimentation I discovered that when the workset of the object didn't match the current workset, the base point icon would not be visible. To see it all, change the current workset to match the workset of the object.