Autodesk Vasari 2010-2015

Now the time has come to say goodbye to a dear friend.
Autodesk Vasari has paved the path for several new pieces software and it seems to have run it’s course. http://autodeskvasari.com/forum/topics/important-message-about-the-vasari-timeout-on-may-31-2015
Autodesk Vasari, we will always think of you when using DynamoBIM or any of the other software you helped generate.


R.I.P - Autodesk Vasari - 2010-2015 - Appreciated by the masses. Parent of many.

DynamoBIM – All Elements of Category at Level

Thought this is worth sharing. This is yet another fine example of why DynamoBIM is great for daily use.
Over at the Dynamo forums a user wanted to select all elements of a certain category at a certain level.
This is not only where DynamoBIM saves the day, but Andreas Dieckmann and his clockwork package as well!
See below for a fine example of achieving this simple task.

Viewport Graphic Scales and Dash Remover

I have previously discussed my graph that removes dashes from sheets at the following link. http://sixtysecondrevit.blogspot.com/2015/02/dynamo-removing-character-across-entire_25.html 

I won’t re-cover what that graph does but what is important is now it is a Rhythm tool. (#3)

More importantly, let’s discuss Graphic scales on sheets in Revit. Typically this is a manual process where we place a graphic scale per view. (sometimes all views)

The problem is Revit teases us with this delightful bit of information:

As you can see this is the scale factor of our view, but it is grayed out and basically unusable in Revit.

Time to use our keyboard shortcut and activate Dynamo for Rhythm tool #4!

Below I illustrate how my new tool on Rhythm works. But there are a few things to do first.

1. Use my Drawing title included in the package
2. Add the shared parameters included to your project to the views category. (Do’t worry these are hidden parameters that know one will ever know about, it’s our secret)
3. Name your viewports with the graphic scale showing to contain the words “Graphic Scale”
4. If in a work shared model, it is best to do this with no one else in the model because it does it for all views.

In the video below I show the parameters being unusable, how to add the parameters and finally how to use the tool.

*Note: you will not see the parameters, but trust me they are there.

Uppercase Tools for Revit

Currently there are a few paid add ins out there that can provide text case options for your Revit model.

The items they are able to control are:

• Text
• Level Names
• Room Names
• Sheet Names
• View Names (title on sheet)

This is very important because the typical standard is to use all caps for documents.

Dynamo is able to do this very well and that is Rhythm tool #2.

In the video I show all of the items it can change before and after. The inputs for on/off is simply a Boolean (true for on/false for off)

See below for this tool in action.

Revit- Renaming Views with Special Characters

Recently a coworker of mine discovered a weird glitch with Revit. It pertained to view naming.

If you have ever tried to rename a view with the following characters, \:{}[]|;<>? or any non printable characters. Your promptly receive this error.

He discovered that this restriction does not exist when creating a new drafting view, but has a major issue when involving the <>

I illustrate the issue below. (Just so you all know, I have sent the error previously as well.)