The Revit Clinic

Revit 2016 – Render Coarse Poche Material

Revit 2016 added a second rendering engine - Autodesk Raytracer.  When rendering with this option, you can use the Coarse Poche Material (and have it use the color for the rendered image).  Previously when using the NVIDIA® mental ray engine the poche cut pattern color would not be displayed.  Example process below:

• Open a 3D view > click Edit Type from the Properties
• Locate the Coarse Poche Material parameter > click in the cell … button to open the material browser and modify the material Graphics > Cut Pattern settings for Pattern and Color (pattern needs to be set to Solid Fill) > OK
• Set your 3D view to Detail Level > Coarse
• Enable the 3D Section Box > adjust so it cuts some model geometry > you should see the color and solid fill pattern you specified
• View > Render.  For Engine, specify Autodesk Raytracer
• Click Render.  For the elements cut by the section box (and displaying the poche pattern / color) they should be rendered that way.  The realistic visual style should also show the coarse poche material

For this example when the view is cut by the section box and rendered, the color \ solid fill pattern still displays:

Revit 2016 R2 - Delete Multiple Object Style Subcategories

This enhancement falls under small but powerful (and frequently requested from customers).

Previously multiple object style subcategories could be selected, but not deleted.  You still had to delete them one by one (which could be problematic if you had hundreds or thousands you wanted to cleanup).

With the release of Revit 2016 R2 it is now possible to both select multiple object style subcategories and delete them:

It is important to keep in mind the underlying logic has not changed (for example you still can’t delete hard-coded object style subcategories).  If you select some subcategories you can delete and some you cannot - the option to delete will still be unavailable.  Revit will still warn on attempted deletion - now giving a total count for multiple subcategories.

But for user or family created object styles, or for all of those imported object subcategories you want to quickly cleanup - this could save some serious clicks.  This functionality is available in both the project and family environment.

Revit Answer Day

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Revit Customize Alphanumeric Sequence - Copy and Paste

Revit 2016 added the ability for more complex, comma-separated revision sequences to deal with specific requirements.  As part of this change you can also copy and paste your sequences into this field.

Quick tip - if you wanted to pre-populate an entire custom sequence,  it might be easier to keep a text file and edit the list in another application.

Revit will do some basic reformatting of the data - for example if you copy and paste this:

Revit will reformat it into this after you click OK:

Workshring Monitor 2016!

It's here!

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New forum for Collaboration for Revit!

We have hit the point where the amount of Collaboration for Revit related forum discussion warranted a standalone forum, rather than having it sprinkled across the 3 existing Revit forums. 

 

Check out the new forum here!

Unplanned downtime for Collaboration for Revit

As many of you may have seen yesterday, there was unplanned downtime for the Collaboration for Revit service.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and for more information, please review the forum thread below:

C4R Unplanned Downtime

 

New Health Dashboard for Cloud Services

 

Recently, we launched a new customer facing dashboard that shows the current status of a number of Cloud Services as well as any upcoming maintenance windows.

There are two great features; not only is it real time, but you can subscribe to certain services so that you get an email when the status of that service changes.

 

 

Feel free to check it out here.

 

 

 

Revit 2015 Update Release 9 and Revit 2016 Service Pack 2

Revit 2015 Update Release 9 and Revit 2016 Service Pack 2 are now available.

Autodesk Revit 2015 Update Release 9

This update applies to the following products:

Applies to Building Design Suite 2015, Infrastructure Design Suite 2015, Plant Design Suite 2015, Revit 2015, Revit 2015, Revit Architecture 2015, Revit MEP 2015, and Revit Structure 2015.

For the above products, the version of Revit should be detected and the appropriate update will be installed.

Autodesk Revit 2016 Service Pack 2

This update also utilizes the same updated installer and applies to the following products:

Revit 2016, Revit Architecture 2016, Revit LT 2016, Revit MEP 2016, and Revit Structure 2016.

Enhancement documentation is available on each download page as well.

Revit 2015 Update Release 8 and Revit 2016 Service Pack 1

Revit 2015 Update Release 8 is now available from the following page:

Autodesk Revit 2015 Update Release 8

This update utilizes a new installer which presents the user with a simplified path to install UR8.  This update applies to the following products:

Building Design Suite 2015, Infrastructure Design Suite 2015, Plant Design Suite 2015, Revit 2015, Revit 2015, Revit Architecture 2015, Revit MEP 2015, and Revit Structure 2015.

For the above products, the version of Revit should be detected and the appropriate update will be installed.

Autodesk Revit LT 2015 Update Release 8

Revit 2016 Service Pack 1 is also available from the following page:

Autodesk Revit 2016 Service Pack 1

This update also utilizes the same updated installer and applies to the following products:

Revit 2016, Revit Architecture 2016, Revit LT 2016, Revit MEP 2016, and Revit Structure 2016.

Enhancement documentation is available on each download page as well.