Friday, November 02, 2007

Identify Revit Builds Painlessly

I thought you might be able to use a tool to identify what Revit build is sitting on your pc. If so, continue reading...


  1. Are you a CAD/BIM manager responsible for installing and updating Revit on multiple computers?

  2. How about a quick way to check all the Revit Build Numbers on each computer without actually launching Revit?

Sounds good right? Download the zip file containing a short vbscript routine and run it on each machine that has Revit installed. It will display a web page with all the build information for each Revit product installed. It will look more or less like the image shown below.


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Want to capture info from multiple computers?



  1. Search the code for the following string: "c:\BTC\revitbuild.log"

  2. Replace it with a path to file somewhere on your network.

  3. Make sure to create the file in the appropriate folder

  4. Every machine that runs the script will now append it's info to the log file.

Lather, rinse, repeat....

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Friday, August 24, 2007

Revit MEP Piping Elbows with Insulation Fix


Are you adding pipes to your BIM model using REVIT MEP? If you run into a problem getting your insulation to appear correctly, try reconnecting your pipes at the offending fitting by first breaking the connection to the fitting and then reconnecting it using the grips provided.

Example:













The RCP pipe shown above has a 5" Insulation on the elbow to match the pipe it is connected to simulating the 5" thick wall of the concrete pipe. Problem is, the fitting doesn't display correctly even though the system is connected...And the setting is saved in the element properties as shown below.









The Fix...Break and reconnect it using grips.



This will reset the insulation to 0". A quick trip into the element properties, resolves the problem by adding the 5" setting again!





Note: "Delete and undo did not work!"

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Puhleeze! Set your Active Workset

All of you Reviteers working in a workset enabled project, please do your team mates a favor and set your active workset as the first activity upon opening your local file. The easiest way is to select it from the Worksets Toolbar. Don't have it visible, then activate it and use it following the steps below. If you have it visible as shown in the graphic below then just use it! You may not save the planet, but you might save your sanity.




1.) Activate the Worksets Toolbar. - Right click in the grey area next to a toolbar icon and choose "Worksets" as shown in the graphic below.

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Monday, July 02, 2007

Who spilled mollasses in my Revit File?

Ever get working in Revit and the world seems to come to a sticky stop where your mouse stops responding and then Revit starts to flicker as if your mouse was spastically hovering over elements? Even when you quit moving your mouse? Don't worry, there is no ghost in the machine and chances are you can continue to work if you simply look at the bottom of the Revit window and change your Model Graphics Style to wireframe. You can find that toggle by looking between the Detail Level icon and the Shadows icon.

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# posted by Richard Binning : Monday, July 02, 2007 0 comments links to this post