New in Revit 2013

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Revit/enu/2013/Help/00001-Revit_He0/0001-What%E2%80%99s_N1/0002-New_in_R2

It is about time

Yes, it is right at the door.

I'm really excited this year to see the amazing progress with Revit MEP 2013, Revit MEP 2012 was a breakthrough in the product life cycle and 2013 is coming faster, smarter and more features coming under the hat.

MEP products are going to turn heads around this year and Engineers will find lot of value to combine more than one product in the same project. BIM is going to be bigger this year in the MEP industry and bigger and smaller projects will benefit from this progress.

RVT Samples

does any one see any value to use the Revit Code samples comes with the SDK?
I appreciate if I get any feedback

Creating Multiple Sheets in Revit

I can create multiple sheets in Revit by first creating a sheet list schedule and type the name and number for each sheet, second I click on new sheet and I select the placeholder sheets I want to create in the New Sheet Window. That will create all the sheets in one step

Navisworks API Plugins

While the focus is more on Revit API and creating Add ins to Revit, I found that Navisworks API is open to add Plugins
Navisworks installation comes with some .net examples that I compiled and I added the .DLL files to the plugins folder

Metric or Imperial Units

As most of international projects use both units, Revit also allows us to do the same without using different Metric and Imperial templates.

I'm working on Metric job now, but most of the manufactures send us their equipment in Imperial units
I used the same numbers in the manufacture catalog in Imperial units and I added the symbol of the imperial unit as Revit has under project units and Revit converted the values automatically in the metric project

But to get this to work, I have to use the same unit symbol has for every unit

Creating Filters using Shared Parameters and turn them on and off like Layers

Here are the steps that you can create filters for all the objects and have them available in the properties pallete and also turn them on and off like CAD Layers

1. Under the manage tab click on shared parameters and create 3 parameters :
• M-HVAC-Supply-New
• M-HVAC-Supply-Existing
• M-HVAC-Supply-Demolish
2. In the parameters properties window change the parameter type to Yes/No
3. Click on project parameters and click on Add, change the type to shared and select the above shared parameters one in a time
4. Change the group parameters under to layers and click on check all
5. Under the view tab click on filters
6. Create new filters using the same layers names and click on check all and select the parameter from the filter rules list
7. Add the different filters in the VG window to a view
8. Change the color and the line type to each filter
9. in your view select the ducts and click on the check box for each filter to turn the filter on
10. you can change the duct display based on the layer