Previous Episodes
Using parts for finishes
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Perform a solar analysis in Autodesk Forma
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Flex geometry to zero in the family editor
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Manage view configuration saved with a file
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Manipulating sloped and slanted wall inserts and sweeps
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New in 2026: Toposolid copy points and negative subdivisions
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Managing room element and tag position
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New in 2026: Using the Saved View Position feature
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New in 2026: Sheet List can include Title Block properties, part 2
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New in 2026: Sheet List can include Title Block properties, part 1
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New in 2026: Move controls from the Options bar
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Creating a downspout family
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Creating gutters and downspouts
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Tricks for modifying dimension witness lines
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Create a color-scheme diagram
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Disable worksharing from an Autodesk Construction Cloud download
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Download a project from Autodesk Construction Cloud
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Modifying shared coordinates in BIM Collaborate Pro
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Modifying shared coordinates in a local project
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Adjusting automatic column join behavior
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Creating an exploded material diagram, part 2
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Creating an exploded material diagram, part 1
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Roof cricket with an adaptive component, part 2
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Roof cricket with an adaptive component, part 1
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Installing the free IESviewer
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Customize your logo
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Forma to Revit
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Sheet count in sheet list
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Manufacturer content gone missing
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Reset your Revit Recent Files list
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Reset your Revit user interface
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Parameters from service (shared parameters in the cloud)
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Duplicate a 3D view within a linked project
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Understanding Thin Lines
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Creating a custom Earth fill pattern
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Fill Pattern Orientation options for Walls
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Drag a view from sheet to sheet
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Parts for customizing brick veneer display
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Establishing geolocation for Revit files
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Repathing decals
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Roof eave in-place void condition
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Roof eave conditions
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Tool option defaults and behaviors
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New in 2025.2
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Exploring Revit Home
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Coffered ceilings, part three
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Coffered ceilings, part two
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Coffered ceilings, part one
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Revisiting type catalogs: Controlling which fields are included
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Setting base elevation level
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Stair cut planes and Plan Regions
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Follow-up to wall closure tip
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Duplicating camera views
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Duplicating and importing custom view types
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Roof crickets for chimneys
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Roof crickets on flat roof
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Revisiting the Sun Path tool
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Furniture schedule with totals by room type
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Using working schedules
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Ceiling soffit revisited
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New in 2025: Align Text, Create Similar, Wrapping
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Customizing default previews in families
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Using display filters with sheet collections
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Setting up sheet collections
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New in 2025: Walls as finishes using Auto Join
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Adding a new Revit user on Autodesk Construction Cloud
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New in 2025: Small arrays in families
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Build a brick jack arch
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Understanding work plane for ceiling element creation
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Working with placeholder sheets
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Controlling rotation in a family: Part three
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Controlling rotation in a family: Part two
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Controlling rotation in a family: Part one
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Using combined fields in schedules
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Converting a file to metric
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Make a list of schedules
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Curtain panels from Basic Walls
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When to use in-place families
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Highlight a row in a schedule
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Excluding certain doors from a schedule
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Scope Boxes: View visible and other properties
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Cleanup duplicate types after pasting a railing
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Naming of exported CAD files
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Export a legend
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RPC families
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Adjusting plan display of windows
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Create a custom awning family, part 2
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Create a custom awning family, part 1
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Curtain wall with an irregular edge
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Slanted walls don't miter in section
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Using a point cloud in Revit LT
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Tagging and scheduling curtain walls
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Filtering plumbing fixture schedules, part 3
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Filtering plumbing fixture schedules, part 2
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Filtering plumbing fixture schedules, part 1
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Create a title block family with detail grid
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Understanding room tag behavior
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Vertically compound walls
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Tagging groups
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Displaying skylights above in plan
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Creating a lighting group
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Creating a divided ellipse
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Creating a flexible rotating box family
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New in 2024: Pattern and texture alignment
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New features in 2024
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New in 2024: Dark mode
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New in 2024: Snowdon Towers; A new sample project
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Reporting host information in a schedule with Dynamo
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Refining a light fixture with adaptive mounting plate
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Light fixture with adaptive mounting plate
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Ceiling-based light fixture issues
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Changing height behavior of default elevator families, part 2
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Changing height behavior of default elevator families
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Changing default elevator families to vertical circulation
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Using custom profiles for mullions on sloped glazing
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Using curtain wall grids
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Using corner mullions on sloped glazing
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Creating and using saved selections
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Shafts and phasing
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Basic sketching tips
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Calculating averages in schedules update
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Follow-up to parking with railings
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Make a room span multiple floors
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Visibility/graphics of electrical symbols in plan views
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Revisiting the Options Bar
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Understanding cutable families
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Dynamo to add room numbers
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Cloud-based shared parameters service
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Access earlier saved versions in Autodesk Construction Cloud projects
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Customizing the per-view display of parts
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Railings as road striping
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Custom loft "stair" with custom-shaped treads: Family
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Custom loft "stair" with custom-shaped treads: Railing
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Using different fill patterns for wall layers in section and plan
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Level heads displaying more than one elevation
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Colorizing ceiling elements in a view
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Adding detail elements to sweeps
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Attaching top and base for columns
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Calculating averages in schedules, part 2
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Calculating averages in schedules, part 1
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New in Revit 2023 - Interactive solar studies
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New in Revit 2023 - Mesh improvements
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New in Revit 2023 - View filter enhancements
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New in Revit 2023 - Materials enhancements
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New in Revit 2023 - Group properties and tagging
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Using vertical opening elements to eliminate undesired folding lines
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New in Revit 2023 - Fix chaotic slab pattern direction
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Controlling the output order to print or PDF
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Controlling the sheets that appear on a sheet list
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Copying group data to rooms and calculating percentages
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Group a room area schedule by function
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Curtain wall mullion quantities
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Managing view templates
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Using Copy and Paste to modify crop regions
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Assigning materials to CAD imports
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Modifying the height property displayed in level heads
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Wall Closure for doors and windows
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Using Edit Path to customize a railing
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An introduction to the Revit.ini file
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Using and deleting a guide grid
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Slanted and tapered walls
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The relationship between the IsReference setting and dimensions
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Colored labels and symbols in tags
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Reporting design data in project views
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Using reporting parameters to query design data
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Family creation inspired by TV
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Model layout cleanup techniques
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Error mitigation
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Controlling the display of callout views
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Understanding architectural column join behavior
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Understanding the location of leaders in tags
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Using the sun path tool
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New features in Revit 2022.1
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Add circles around the number values in a note schedule
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Troubleshooting rooms or spaces that disappear in the model
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Positioning texture maps within custom materials
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Create a custom render appearance path in Revit options
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Using a cutout map in a custom material
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Make a model family scalable by leveraging the planting category
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Creating Soffits with the Fascia tool
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Using the Soffit tool
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Using the Steering Wheel to manipulate camera views
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Perspective views from views other than floor plans
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Working with user keynotes
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Creating roof crickets with shape editing tools
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New in 2022: Modify tools remember options
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Create a custom install (in Autodesk account)
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Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 3
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Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 2
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Create a north arrow symbol with a rotation parameter, part 1
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Section heads with built-in masking region
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Randomize family parameter values with Dynamo
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Make a lollipop tree family, part 2
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Make a lollipop tree family, part 1
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New in 2022: Multicategory tags and groups
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Removing all family types from a saved RFA ramily file
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New in Revit 2022: Display filters now support phasing
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Scope box properties and copying
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Route analysis
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Unrolling a wall in elevation
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Adjust roof sketch line plate heights
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Use Dynamo to write view scale to bar scale symbols
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New in Revit 2022: Preserve callouts when deleting parent views
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New in Revit 2022: Filter schedules by family and type and other enhancements
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New in Revit 2022: Understanding tapered wall type and instance properties
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New in Revit 2022: Tagging multiple elements—curtain wall mullions and more
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New in Revit 2022: Resizable dialog boxes
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New in Revit 2022: Using shared parameters in key schedules
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Understanding Revit line weight settings
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Understanding CAD import settings
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Creating an export setup for exporting to CAD
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Tips for working with topography
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Controlling void cut behavior in the Family Editor
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Revisiting the Attach Top/Base command
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Discover the built-in Interference Check tool
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Reset your shared coordinates
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Leverage the out-of-the-box window, trim and muntin pattern libraries
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Make a material and fill pattern follow a curve
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Batch process text type modifications
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Configuring nonlinear dimension types
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Configuring linear dimension types
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Troubleshooting troublesome nested families and parameters
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Publish a shared view
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Create a signage data sheet
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Create a wall takeoff
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How to map CAD layers to Revit line weights
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Using a schedule as a legend
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Customizing artificial lighting
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Selecting multiple walls with Entire Walls dimensioning
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Disable display filters in visibility and graphics
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Schedule enhancements
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Using global parameters to control slanted wall parameters
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Using formulas and trigonometry to edit slanted walls
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Enhanced realistic visual style
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Using pin position with pick new host
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Setting up shared coordinates on BIM 360
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Understanding symbolic lines and masking regions in families
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Design option alternative using global parameters
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Exposing some legacy behavior lingering in Revit
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Customize the default visibility of new 3D views
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Convert In-Place Families to component loadable families
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Troubleshooting discrepancies in your Dynamo graph
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Calculating occupancy code values with Dynamo
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Rediscover the Activate Dimensions feature
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Add randomization to your Dynamo window placement
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Using Dynamo to place wall hosted elements like windows
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Create a manual color fill legend for categories other than rooms
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Revisiting Dynamo and Excel line-style mapping
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Warning for insert conflicts with wall
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Using Dynamo to create many family types
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Installing and using packages in Dynamo
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Using scope boxes to set the extents of views
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Using a lookup table to report values from a predefined CSV list
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An inventory of opening elements
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Face-based and work-plane-based family placement orientation options
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Hiding the edges of an imported 3D mesh in a Revit family
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Creating a custom angled pilaster family
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Understanding architectural columns and pilasters
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Using filters in visibility graphics to indicate wall fire ratings
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Using Dynamo to indicate wall fire ratings
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Wrapping titles in schedule headers
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Create a custom parameter in a view reference tag
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Quickly create cutaway 3D views with the Selection Box tool
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Customizing stair runs and landings
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Creating a stair with custom treads and risers
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Controlling the wrapping of text in long view titles
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Modifying the sketch of automatically created railings
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Partially applying view templates
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Using nested families to show consultant firms on your title block
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When to use basic ceilings
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Orientation issues with face-based content and basic ceilings
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Understanding the differences between detail and floor plan callouts
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Using dictionaries in Dynamo
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New in 2020.1: Visualize coordinate points for links
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New in 2020.1: Path of travel improvements
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New in 2020.1: Attach top and base improvements
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New in 2020.1: UI improvements
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Using parts to demolish part of a wall
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Understanding and customizing 3D poche cut
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Turn off the double-click to rename feature
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Why Revit renames that family to avoid inconsistencies
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Leveraging existing model groups in arrays
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Understanding and hacking the display properties of grids and datum elements
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Revit from your vacation photos
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Using the Grading tool to modify a toposurface
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Lock dimensions in the Family Editor
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Copy legend views to multiple sheets
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Split walls vertically
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Embedded curtain walls not cleaning up properly at corners
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Incorporating generic annotation elements into face-based families
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Make a tiled roof with sloped glazing
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Adjusting inserts that do not adjust to wall thickness correctly
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Preventing errors when stretching unlocked wall layers
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Using eTransmit to upgrade files
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REWIND: How to build a roof dormer
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Using model review to audit projects for compliance with standards
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Using Transfer Project Standards to copy settings from one project to another
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Resolving an error when trying to move viewports
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Controlling the length of view titles consistently
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Troubleshooting Scope Box setting in view properties
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New in Revit 2020: Using path of travel
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New in Revit 2020: Creating elliptical walls
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New in Revit 2020: Linking a PDF file to a Revit project
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New in BIM 360: Upgrade cloud models
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REWIND: Layering viewports on a sheet
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Using Excel and Dynamo to batch process line styles
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Swap line styles with Dynamo
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Drag a view to move it from one sheet to another
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Force relinquish another user in cloud-based worksharing
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Worksharing display
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Schedule links and groups
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Using Dynamo to selectively place views on sheets
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Calculate minimum and maximum values in a schedule
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Shared coordinate simple setup
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Exploring the Revit program options
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Update the Desktop Connector app
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Changing a built-in parameter from type to instance
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Troubleshoting missing annotation elements
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Preserve open views when closing Revit files
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Using point clouds in Revit families
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Create fillet arcs with a predefined radius
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Understanding the family reload options
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Leveraging support for imported AutoCAD hatches
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Using the Align tool to change the orientation of sections
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Applying hatching to the edges of system families
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Create vaulted roofs and ceilings
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Apply a new finish to a wall using join geometry.
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Using embedded images to show typ wall types
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Aligning dimensions to reference planes
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Use reference plane subcategories as a detail grid
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Rotate a section line
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Use reference planes to line up viewports
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Editing sheets with a sheet list
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Sorting a sheet list
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Change the default viewport type for sheets
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Modify lighting families to make them easy to center
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Using fascia to model standing seam roofing
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Using the Pick New Host tool
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When in doubt, right-click
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Adding a progress set stamp to sheets
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Exporting all families
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Performing routine maintenance
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Reduce file size with purge unused
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Customizing curtain wall corner panels
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Dealing with mullions at curtain wall corners
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Custom mullion profiles
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Round window with spokes from a curtain wall
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Making curved curtain wall mullions
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Create a "dot" schedule
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Make a curved window that matches its host wall
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Creating a dedicated level for site
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The new fill pattern dialog
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Join and cut geometry
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Creating domes
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Revisiting selection toggles
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Use railings to create Life Safety egress paths
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Control door swing angle with a sweep
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Show nested families on schedules
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Family save path locations
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Adding surface patterns to glazing
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Understanding wall base and top attachments
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Moves with Nearby Elements
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Customizing room boundary calculations
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Creating custom patterns
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Wall sweeps for moldings and trim
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Duplicating materials
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Painting the surfaces of walls
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Understanding and controlling double-click behavior
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Schedule Browser Organization customization
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Select elements by ID
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Using shortcuts
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Workset unload by user
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Export shared parameters from a file
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Create an ADA curb cut with a loadable family
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Create an ADA curb cut in a floor
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Custom labels in level heads
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Add length and width to a room tag using Dynamo
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Add length and width to a room tag using global parameters
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Manually Add Length and Width to a Room Tag
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Create vaulted roofs and ceilings
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Make a material tailored to a 3D surface
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Create a type catalog
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Convert a hosted family to face-based or non-hosted family
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Display elements beyond with the Show Hidden Lines tools
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Renaming families with Dynamo
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Creating a key plan family
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Create a fence from a railing type
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Customize symbols using custom fonts
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Create manual tags with generic annotations
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Get a behind the scenes look at Revit development
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Generate cloud renderings
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Link a point cloud to Revit
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Understanding cutable families
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Place multiple elements with Dynamo
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Swap out shared families and non-shared families
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Consider variations in design with groups
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Using tangency locks
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Topography settings and graphics
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Custom wall openings
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Wall layer wrapping
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Sloped glazing
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Precutting column families
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Using the Is Reference in families
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Import CAD into a sketch
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Using the Autodesk desktop app
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Customize shared parameters
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Drive family parameters with a dropdown list
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How to create a canted wall
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Understanding Revit warnings
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Splitting section lines
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Using Railing Support members instead of Balusters
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Creating a custom sloped ceiling
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How to build a roof dormer
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Creating custom roof soffits
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Changing material selections globally
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Controlling the spacing of elements with global parameters
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Discovering the A360 online viewer
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Using view templates to sort your project views
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Using Dynamo to rename views
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Using Dynamo to rename sheets
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Custom detail module
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Creating hidden parameters in family content
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Using the linework tool
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Customizing the schedule title
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Line-based families for complex linetypes
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Managing family parameters
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Understanding shared families
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Controlling nested families parametrically with the <family types> parameter
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Viewing list schedule
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Seed families
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Using filters
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Making temporary Hide/Isolate permanent
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Copying schedules between projects
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Adding conditional formatting
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Adding a calculated value
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Sharing materials libraries
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Revisions on sheets
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Sheet sorting
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Sheet management
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Putting view templates in control of your views
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Creating custom view types
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Creating a custom schedule property
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Using a schedule to edit the model
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Locking a workset
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How to move a central file
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Exploding and cleaning up a CAD file
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Importing CAD files lineweights
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Chase examples
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Dimensioning alternate units
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Managing dimension lines
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Customizing level appearance
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Customizing grid appearance
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Creating a custom browser organization
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Setting up dependent views
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Using a scope box to set datum extents
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Turning on design options in Revit LT
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Customizing Revit options
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Dimension equality formulas
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Equality dimensions anchor point
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Converting a group to a link
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Duplicating and swapping groups
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Excluding group members
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Reveal Constraints
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Rotating True North
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Cutaway 3D views
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Using slope arrows
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Array tips
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Creating similar and matched type
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Ceiling soffit tip
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Underpinning walls to a ceiling
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Layering viewports on a sheet
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