In Revit 2013 (all flavors), we now have the ability to remove a single dimension in the middle of a string!! It’s always been painful to tell people that they needed to wipe out one end or the other and recreate the string if something in the middle needed to be removed for whatever reason.
Here’s a very, very short video on how it works…just remember, don’t select the string and try to Edit Witness Lines to remove a dimension this way.
For those you don’t know what BDS-U is, it’s the short form for Building Design Suite Ultimate.
Anyway, finally got this bad boy downloaded, extracted and installed yesterday. Installed practically everything in the suite and popped open Revit 2013 and noticed the Add-Ins tab wasn’t showing. This was a little odd since the Suite is supposed to install the NWC Exporters, so the Add-Ins tab should be there. Even checked the Export within the Application Menu, no NWC Export Option (new feature of 2013 by the way).
Great, I can see the numerous amount of support calls/emails coming in about this. It’s a simple, yet annoying fix…and I’ve already posted about it. See this post about the NWC Exporters not installing and how to fix it. Even though the post is from 2009 (2010 software), it’s the exact same process.
I really, really hope I had the odd-ball install where the exporters didn’t get installed in the proper order…
Well, the first few months of 2012 have been busy, which I guess is a good thing! Since the 2013 products were introduced on March 27, I’m not going to repurpose the what’s new features for 2013….I’ll simply point you in the direction of David Light. He’s always got a very good summary of the tools.
Here’s a few little things that I’ve run across that you probably won’t see in the What’s New Feature list…
1 – The Home tab in the Ribbon in Revit Architecture is now called Architecture. This is more than likely to keep the naming convention consistent with the introduction of the Revit 2013 product that will be included for those that will be getting/have the Building Design Suite Premium or Ultimate 2013. (In case you weren’t aware, the Suite products will have 1 Revit product that will have tools for all 3 disciplines)
1a – The layout of the Architecture tab vs the Home tab has changed slightly from 2012…
2 – When you create a New Project, you now get a drop-down list to choose which template you would like to start with, Architectural or Construction. You can still browse to choose a different template. (I’ll have a separate post about what you can do to Customize this as well)
3 – If you’re working with Navisworks or need to produce NWC files for Navisworks, you can now access the NWC Export tool via the Export within the Application Menu. The NWC Export is still available via the Add-Ins Ribbon tab. Just remember, you need to have either Navisworks (Manage or Simulate) or the NWC Export Utility installed to get the NWC Export ability.
As I run across more, I’ll report back 
Never had this one happen until the last class I taught. Had a student moving their Ceiling Grid lines in one of the exercises and the Lines were not moving. I watched a couple times (to make sure they were using the Tool correctly, which they were) before I noticed something…the “Disjoin” checkbox in the Options Bar was checked, but it was greyed out…couldn’t change it. So I had the student get out of the Move command and then grab something else (like a piece of furniture or something) and go back into the Move command. There, we could uncheck the “Disjoin” checkbox and had them move the object (to make sure the “Disjoin” unchecking stuck). So with the “Disjoin” unchecked, I had them go back and try to Move the Ceiling Grid Lines…bingo, it worked!
If you weren’t aware, the “Disjoin” checkbox remembers whether or not it was checked the last time you were in the Move command. So, if you try and move your Ceiling Grids, make sure the “Disjoin” checkbox has been unchecked.
As much everyone would like to go to Las Vegas in 2 weeks, many of you do not have the opportunity. Budget limitations and work demands will keep you from attending the Autodesk University in Las Vegas. To expand the audience and make Autodesk University more accessible to a greater number of people the Autodesk created AU Virtual. This year AU Virtual is offered at no charge to all AU Members (Membership is free). If you’re not an AU Member, you can register HERE.
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Registration begins November 15.
After the event, AU Virtual classes will continue to be available on the AU website. So if a “fire” needs attention and you can’t watch the Virtual event you wanted, you can go back and still get the information you wanted.
