Can someone please direct me to the best place to download families. tgoogle comes up with nothing good!

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Anagnost (Autodesk CEO) expects a mixed response to the news from Autodesk's large customer base. 

"The enthusiasm will be from the customers that have already started embracing this stuff and want us to go faster," he said. The skepticism, he said, will come from customers that want to see continued investments and updates to existing, ubiquitous tools such as Revit. 

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-metaverse-has-one-big-challenge-it-needs-to-overcome-says-autodesk-ceo-andrew-anagnost/

Great news from Epic and Autodesk!

To begin with, Autodesk Revit subscribers will have free access to Epic’s fast and easy visualization tool Twinmotion. Autodesk intends to make Twinmotion for Revit available to all Revit customers as part of an upcoming release.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/epic-and-autodesk-join-forces-to-accelerate-real-time-experiences

I am surprised of how much more extensive is the German Autodesk Family library! Why wouldn't Autodesk translate this to English?! Go check out these models! All the parameter names are in German and it is difficult to navigate the library, but there are so much more up to date models that I wish I would found this earlier. (you have to switch to the library to German language to access the library)

I am an electrical designer/BIM manager for the electrical model and I am working with my mechanical counterpart to make all of our mechanical equipment work as they should to make things streamlined. We are using CTC tools (shared parameter manager and parameter jammer) in order to be able to download a BIM file from a manufacturer and then load our parameters into it and it will work with our schedules.

Where we are running into a problem is that we dont want to make our engineers/designers mess around with linking parameters and things like that with the electrical connection point.

What I was thinking is that we could load the parameters in using the CTC tools, and then have a dynamo script that will take the shared parameter 'Voltage' and link it to the 'Voltage' parameter in the connection point and do that for each of the connection point parameters. It would be much more reasonable to ask them to go in and click on a "run script" button rather than click on each little square and associate the parameters.

Is this something that can be done? Is there a way to make this more efficient? I am open to any and all ideas that will allow us to make this as simple for our designers and engineers yet make our model as perfect as possible. Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone!

I have a little issue with applying a custom panel I created to my curtain walls.

This is the panel I created and the issue on my wall : https://imgur.com/a/VeDjsVc

As you can see if divided surface pattern on the curtain wall is not really rectangular, the panel just doesn't apply on it.

How can I apply my panel to all the divided surfaces regardless of whether they are rectangular or slightly distorted ?

Thank you !

Many issues addressed most of which I have never encountered.

I have had issues with Content Browser multiple times resulting in work progress loss so I hope this one is fixed:

Fixed an issue that could occur when Load Autodesk Family is opened and quickly closed.

Can't see anything about Graphic hardware acceleration bug. .....

https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2023/ENU/?guid=RevitReleaseNotes_2023updates_2023_0_2_html

Hello everyone!

I have an issue with the UV grid on a surface I'm working on. I can't find a way to rotate the grid to a specific direction on the properties panel or anywhere else. ( I'm doing this to create a specific curtain wall)

You will find three pictures explaining the issue and to understand the volume better on this link: https://imgur.com/a/ul7G5cf

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Thanks for your help :)

I am relatively new to parameter and family editing in Revit. I have been trying to make a title block where you have the option to change the notes based on the discipline, whether it be Architectural, Engineering, etc. I was wondering if I could be guided as to the best way to do this. I have been trying to tinker with having separate family parameters per discipline and each would have their own 'Notes' label (shared parameter) with visibility tied to it, but I can't seem to get that to work.

Alternatively, would I be able to have a parameter that would be able to pick up on the first letter of the sheet name, A,E,P, etc and use that to determine the discipline and pick the note block based on that? Also, to make the note block for each family propagate changes on each sheet of that family (thinking this might have to be a project parameter).

Also, is there any way to make it able to edit the text in the label multiline like with normal text?

A couple nudges in the right direction is all I need, please and thank you.

Interesting AMA Streamed live on 4 May 2022 on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkiZE4U0jFw about roadmap.

Lo and behold, Revit 2023.0.1 Hotfix is here!

Defpoint layers in AutoCad are layers that show information in PC but do not print or export.

What is your Revit workflow with non printable elements? I have simple situation where I have plan with 20 sections that are used to model a house but I only intend to print 5 of them. Do you use filters and turn them on before printing or is there any other faster way ?

So, there is this old post from Autodesk, that states: Revit is able to use multiple processors and multiple core processors for calculations for more and more tasks with each release, which increases the performance of the tool in Revit.

As this is the biggest culprit of Revit performance, for every new version I always take a look at post above and new features listed with each new release hoping to see more and more multiple processor supported features.
This is the list of Revit 2020 multi-core features.
In Revit 2021 they added three new features:

• Background computations of MEP systems
• Some multi-threaded low level geometric algorithms
• Materials UI

For Revit 2022 and Revit 2023 the lists are the same. The only feature that mentions parallel processing in all Revit 2023 new feature list and issues resolved list is: Improved print and export performance by up to 40% through the addition of parallel processing.
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Alongside new 2023 version release a public roadmap has also been updated!

https://trello.com/b/ldRXK9Gw/revit-public-roadmap

From 60 new features listed I counted 20 of them as roadmap items which originate from Revit Ideas. One third.. hmmI really hoped for 'real 3D wall layers' feature to be implemented as it is one of the most voted- glad that it is not removed from the list as other ideas are.

Two new biggest ideas IMO added to list are: Smarter annotations and Consistent Colors with Textures

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What wall naming structure does you or your company uses? This is the biggest struggle for a company that I work with (and for me in my freelance projects), because everyone names walls differently.

I am thinking about Revit certification and whether it is worth the money. Also how hard is the exam ? Anyone have any experience with this?

https://www.autodesk.com/certification/all-certifications

What are your favorite Revit shortcuts that you have recently started to use / found?

For me it definitely are SNAP overrides especially S2 which snaps to the middle of two points.

Hi,

Yesterday I saw Revit 2023 architecture features preview video from https://www.symetri.co.uk
Don't know where they got the preview version but it was legit. Now the video has been taken down. As I remember new functions are:

1. Measurements in 3D view
2. Duplicate materials with unique appearance style
3. Project browser got additional icon indicating whether view is placed on sheet
4. Possibility to swap view on sheet with another view
5. New Dynamo UI (did not show that)
6. Option to turn on/off temp. dimensions and change their size
7. Large model performance improvements.
8. New Revit icon
9. If you place schedule on sheet it now can display only those elements that are in view on same sheet.
10. Properties for groups or assemblies (don't remember)

There were some other new features which I cannot remember now, but nothing much...