Rogue Levels in Revit?

Do you have “Rogue” Levels in Revit? You may have rogue levels in the project that are not active views, but show up as elevation options when creating elements such as Walls, Columns, or Floor. Additionally if creating a new floor plan these rogue levels may show up.

You may have tried to find them by creating new elevations or sections and turning off the cropping of the view, but still cannot find them. What do you do??

Use Ideate Explorer for Revit of course! Our Ideate Explorer for Revit 2012 (as do our earlier versions of this great program) allows you to search the entire model for these rogue levels. Select them, then use the Tools menu to Show where these elements are located in your project.

Now that they are selected, simply delete them from the project. You can find more information on Ideate Explorer for Revit by visiting our website.

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AEC Solutions Application Specialist
Ron has 23+ years of experience in the AEC industry as a designer, lead project designer, trainer and CAD manager. His instructional background includes Autodesk Certified Instructor, trainer, support technician, educator at Portland Community College and Clackamas Community College, and a U.S. Army certified instructor. Follow Ron @RonPalmaAEC.

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Setting Up Network Licensing with AutoCAD for Mac 2012

Did you catch Autodesk’s Design 8.16 event? Autodesk released AutoCAD for Mac 2012, AutoCAD LT for Mac 2012, and a separate AutoCAD WS app for Mac OS X.

Whether you thought it was a worthy enough “big” announcement or not doesn’t matter - what you thought they would announce Revit for Mac from the AutoCAD team? There are a lot of AutoCAD users out there, and a lot of them are moving to the Mac platform. And to be honest I like seeing how they’re continuing to develop AutoCAD for Mac. Besides, I love any chance I get to jump on our iMac here.

Literally within minutes of the announcement I was downloading AutoCAD for Mac 2012, trying to will that progress bar to completion. So what feature of AutoCAD was I anxiously waiting to try out? Network Licensing, and not just your normal “run of the mill” network license, but the ability for AutoCAD 2012 and AutoCAD for Mac 2012 to share licenses! Meaning, a pool of AutoCAD licenses can be handed out regardless of platform, Windows or Mac. You don’t need separate AutoCAD and AutoCAD for Mac licenses. Aside from Express Tools… yeah, I don’t get it either; network licensing was the #1 request I saw from our customers. Typically, our AutoCAD for Mac customers are either mid-sized firms with the majority of users on Windows and a couple of users on Macs who need to use AutoCAD; and smaller firms solely on Macs.

I wanted to first check out how the network licensing works between the two platforms. I ran into a couple of issues, mostly dealing with the Mac on our network and getting everyone to talk with each other. This is what I want to pass along to our readers should they run into the same issues.

After completing the download and launching the installer I began going through the install screens.

When prompted for the server name, I typed in our license server’s host name just as I’ve done on countless other network installs and clicked Continue. This is where I ran into trouble. I got a message saying our license server couldn’t be contacted.

Which I thought was a little strange considering I could see the other PCs on our network through Finder and I could see the Mac on our network from the license server.

“Can you ping the server?” This is the first question we ask in support when customers call in with network license connection issues. And I admit it was a knee jerk reaction that caught me off guard. “I don’t know…” To ping another computer in Windows is easy. All you do is open the command prompt and type “ping,” but how do you do it in Mac OS? Well, after a little Googling I found out how. You simply go into Applications, Utilities, and launch the Network Utility. Once in the Network Utility, click Ping and type in the name of the computer you want to Ping - easy, right? And again I got an error when typing our license server’s host name. So then I tried the IP address and this time it worked. 

I then went back to the installation and replaced the server name with the server IP address and this time I didn’t get the error message and proceeded with the rest of the installation without trouble.

Just to be sure everything was working like it should, I clicked the Application Menu, About AutoCAD, and went into Product Information.

Sure enough, AutoCAD for pulled a regular AutoCAD license - success.

The lesson to be learned here is, when using network licensing for AutoCAD between Mac and Windows platform you’re better off using IP addresses than host names when trying to talk with the license server. This will resolve any kind of naming issues between the two.

So now I’m up and running with AutoCAD for Mac 2012 pulling an AutoCAD license. And it works seamlessly; really happy Autodesk decided to go this route. It just makes sense, an AutoCAD license is an AutoCAD license whether you’re on AutoCAD for Windows or AutoCAD for Mac. But it still bugs me I can’t ping the license server by host name. After some more Googling I’ve isolated the issue to be a problem with DNS naming for the Mac; it even pulls old host names from our network instead of using the one I created. If anyone is reading this and knows the answer, hit me up on Twitter and let me know.

I hope this helps those of you out there that run into the same problem. Next up, setting up the license server on a Mac for a Mac only licensing environment.

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Derek holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Roger Williams University, Rhode Island. He is experienced working within the AEC industry from concept design through construction administration for both small and large scale projects. As Ideate’s Support Manager he ensures a timely and quality response to support requests and questions. Follow Derek on Twitter: @dwielk

Canada Partner BusCom Shares New Ideate BIMLink Video

Ideate BIMLink – en Francais!

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It Once Was Lost But Now It’s Found

Imagine this, a Revit file comes from a project member. You open your project and it loads as it always has. You leave your starting view to a floor plan only to have your heart sink. Where is the link? It was there yesterday. Your anger and anxiety level is now setting your blood pressure to dangerous levels. Take a deep breath, it’s ok, we’ll help you find that lost link.

I have two options below for you. The more complex is the first option. The second option is the easier workflow. This is one time that skipping to the end of an article isn’t a bad thing.

Option 1

First, verify in the Project Browser its loaded.

Right click on the linked file name.

In the shortcut menu select Select All Instance/In entire project

You’ll see the ribbon has a new tab Modify/RVT Links

Don’t click ESC.

Go to the Manage tab/to the ID’s of Selection

Copy the number that comes up in the dialog box

Click OK

Click the button just below where you were called Select by ID and paste the number from the last step and click Show.

This will take you to a view of the linked file. Now you can see if it’s changed in elevation or if it’s located at a different location on the site.

Now, for Option 2

The much easier option is to use Ideate Explorer for Revit. Inside Ideate Explorer for Revit you’ll be able to locate the link with just one click of the View pull down and change the filter to Instance List. Your link will be in the Results list. In the Details you’ll see the ID, but you don’t need that now because all you need to do is Right Click on Category in the Results are and click Show Elements and there is your lost link.

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Lana has a wealth of real world experience, having used Autodesk products on projects from hospitals to universities, restaurants to corporate office headquarters, from strip malls to tenant fit-up. Most recently she focused on coordination drawings/models with MEP contractors, and fabrication from the model. Lana successfully ran her CAD business and worked as the CAD manager for an international MEP engineering firm in Seattle. Lana is a Certified Autodesk Trainer and NECA certified electrical estimator. Currently pursuing her MBA in Sustainability and based in the Ideate ATC in Seattle, Lana provides training and services for AutoCAD MEP, Autodesk Revit MEP and Autodesk Navisworks. @LanaGMEP

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DWF for Mac

I hope everyone was able to catch Ron Palma’s post on DWFs and how versatile they are when exchanging design and documentation data. If you didn’t check it out here.

As the AutoCAD for Mac guy here at Ideate, I often get questions about using DWFs on the Mac platform. Windows uses Design Review, a free program from Autodesk that allows you to open and view DWF files. But with AutoCAD for Mac 2011, released last fall Design Review is currently not available. So what does a Mac user do when they need to view DWFs? The answer - McDwiff.

McDwiff is a 3rd party app developed by Austin Silver Software. It’s available in the Mac App store for Mac and iPad. The app lets you open and view any 2D or 3D DWF. According to the website 3D rotation will be coming soon. McDwiff is a “must have” for anyone on the Mac platform and working with DWF files.

With the McDwiff iPad app you can open DWFs as an email attachment through the Mail app. It can even connect to Dropbox, for easy file transfer and storage.

Check it out!

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Derek holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Roger Williams University, Rhode Island. He is experienced working within the AEC industry from concept design through construction administration for both small and large scale projects. As Ideate’s Support Manager he ensures a timely and quality response to support requests and questions. Follow Derek on Twitter: @dwielk

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Auto Regen

I was editing an old AutoCAD drawing today to use as a training example. As I used the View Cube in AutoCAD 2012 to orient to a different viewing direction I kept getting an AutoCAD Alert dialog box with a note that said About to regen - - proceed? pressing the [Enter] key causes the dialog to go away and the view to re-orient itself.

What did AutoCAD do this? Back in the day (and for some of you perhaps even before you were born...), changing the viewing orientation of your drawing would trigger a regeneration of your drawing. This dialog served as a warning that if you wanted to proceed, the drawing would need to be regenerated. Depending upon your hardware you may not have wanted to regenerate the drawing as it could take a long time to do so.

Fast forward to present day... we really no longer need to worry much about regenerations of DWG files. The hardware we have today can handle some of the things we used to have to deal with... (extra long lunches while your DWG regenerated!). So why when you work on an old DWG might you get this alert message? There is an old AutoCAD variable called REGENAUTO. This value today is set to “ON” so that changes in viewing direction trigger an automatic regen of your drawing. On these old drawings, the variable was set to “OFF.”

I know it was a little frustrating getting this alert this morning, but I quickly remembered the variable, set it to “ON” and shared it with my younger colleagues! So I shared a piece of history with them and now with you.

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Do You Use DWF?

Design Web Format (DWF) is a secure file format for the distribution and communication of design data to anyone needing to view, review, or print design files. The DWF format was first established in 1995 as a means of publishing AutoCAD Drawing Files (DWG) for use on the internet and was then known as the Drawing Web Format (DWF). As the format grew in usage beyond AutoCAD, DWF was renamed to what we now know as the Design Web Format.

Today DWF files are highly compressed making them smaller and faster to transmit electronically than standard design files and in many cases even PDF files. All Autodesk software includes the ability of printing, exporting, or publishing out to the DWF format. The sole purpose of the DWF format is to allow designers, engineers, project managers, and their colleagues the ability to share design information and content with other team members without them needing to know the software used to create or modify the design. As the publisher of DWF you can limit what is published by creating a single sheet or multi-sheet drawing sets within a single DWF file. There is also the ability of publishing 3D models to the secure DWF format.

Similar to the PDF files that require you to use the Adobe Acrobat program to review pdf files, DWF files require the Design Review program to enable users to measure, markup, review and print DWF files. Design Review is a free download from Autodesk. Design Review is a reviewing tool that includes markup tools, measuring tools, the functionality to review 2D and 3D DWF files and the ability to print out your designs. DWF files marked up with the Design Review tools can be saved and imported back into the AutoCAD, Revit or Inventor programs the files were generated from, allowing your end users the ability of “overlaying” your markups; a great contributor to going “paperless” in the office.

The 2009 release of Autodesk products included the ability to create another DWF file type. This was the DWFx file type which is based on the XML Paper Specification. With this new format, DWFx files can be viewed and printed using Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista or Windows XP (with the latest .NET updates), and on Windows 7 without the need of Design Review, making DWF files more versatile.

The creation of DWF is not limited to Autodesk software either. Autodesk has released the “Autodesk DWF Writer” software which enables users of any Windows based software a means of publishing DWF files. This software is a certified Windows system printer driver that is installed on your system and becomes a printer available in your Microsoft Office, Microstation, CATIA, and SolidWorks programs. Download the Autodesk DWF Writer here.

There are many features and benefits to using DWF/DWFx, but to sum up some of the key points, DWF/DWFx files:

• are small in file size (often smaller than a comparable PDF files)
• can print graphics clearly with crisp linework
• is a secure format for your designs
• hyperlinks within the published documents can be embedded within the DWF
• through the use of Design Review can be “redlined,” measured and printed

So what are you waiting for? Start looking into using DWF!

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Ron Palma
AEC Solutions Application Specialist
Ron has 23+ years of experience in the AEC industry as a designer, lead project designer, trainer and CAD manager. His instructional background includes Autodesk Certified Instructor, trainer, support technician, educator at Portland Community College and Clackamas Community College, and a U.S. Army certified instructor. Follow Ron @RonPalmaAEC.

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Publishing Single-Sheet PDF Files

During my latest round of Technical Support for Ideate, Inc. we saw a bunch of PDF Publishing cases. In one case in particular, a customer reported an issue when trying to produce Single-Sheet PDF files using the Publish Dialog Box.

An issue occurs within the Publish command when a certain combination of options is selected for the Page Setup and Publish To items. In all cases, the Single-Sheet option was selected for the output type in the Sheet Set Publish Options, however one combination continued to produce a Multi-Sheet PDF file. We ran a series of tests on the varying combinations and verified with Autodesk that this is an issue within the Publish command and Publish Dialog Box options.

The Issue: Selecting the Single-Sheet output option within the Sheet Set Publish Options still produces a Multi-Sheet PDF file.

The Reason: The combination of Publish To and Page Setup options selected by the user affects the PDF output file, regardless of the Single-Sheet specification in the Sheet Set Publish Options.

Per the Autodesk tech that assisted us with confirming the issue (thanks Mike!) the issue occurs because of conflicting information being sent to the application by the selected Publish Dialog options. When the combination of Publish to: Plotter Named in Page Setup and Page Setup: 36x24 (or anything besides Default) is specified, a conflict is created when the application tries to use the plotter originally named in the Page Setup (per Publish to) and the user specified Page Setup (per Page Setup). The result is a multi-sheet PDF file, even if the single-sheet option was specified.

The Solution: Always select the “Default:<None>” option for the Page Setup when using the Publish to: Plotter Named in Page Setup, rather than specifying a user-defined page setup from the list. If you prefer a user-defined page setup instead of default, use the PDF option under the Publish to drop down list. Remembering to use those combinations results in single-sheet PDFs as expected.

Here are some screenshots of the Publish Dialog Box options along with a note on what type of PDF file is produced.

Publish Options: Single-Sheet file
Publish To: PDF
Page Setup: 36x24 (user defined)
Output: Single-Sheet PDF files

Publish Options: Single-Sheet file
Publish To: Plotter Named in Page Setup
Page Setup: Default
Output: Single-Sheet PDF Files

Publish Options: Single-Sheet file
Publish To: Plotter Named in Page Setup
Page Setup: 36x24 (user defined)
Output: Multi-Sheet PDF

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Matt is a licensed Civil Engineer in the state of Hawaii. Matt obtained a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and has 7 years of private sector design experience which he applies in his role as an application specialist with Ideate, Inc. His project experience includes residential and commercial site development, private and public sewer, water and drainage systems, harbors improvements, and roadway improvements. While in Hawaii, Matt was involved in multidisciplinary projects for City and County agencies, State Departments, the Army COE and private developers. @MattM_PE

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Revit - To Purge or Not to Purge?

Purging is a question we get at Ideate all the time.

Who’s afraid of the big bad purge button?

I was! When I started my first Revit MEP project, I was still waiting to get trained formally and I thought “How different can it be from AutoCAD MEP?” Not realizing that the files in Revit are going to be larger than my AutoCAD files, I wanted to get the file size down. What do we do in AutoCAD? Purge. So, I did, much to my dismay. This event so traumatized me that I never again hit the purge button.

For years I would clean my files by removing unused views and limiting .dwg files, but never the purge command. That was silly, but we all have developed avoidances from things we’ve done in our life.

Well, yesterday I ventured back into the purge command in Revit MEP 2012. I could actually feel my blood pressure rising as I moved my mouse the purge button. “Am I going to make a mess of this file?” kept running through my head. Then, the dialog box popped up and it didn’t look anything like what I remembered.

The dialog box allowed me to Select None and the pick the elements that I was sure I no long needed.

File maintenance has its own workflow. Check for unused views (sections and 3D views are the biggest culprits), check for .dwgs (Ideate Explorer for Revit can help), and I now will use the Purge command in the Manage tab without any heart palpitations.

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Lana Gochenauer, LEED AP,
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Lana has a wealth of real world experience, having used Autodesk products on projects from hospitals to universities, restaurants to corporate office headquarters, from strip malls to tenant fit-up. Most recently she focused on coordination drawings/models with MEP contractors, and fabrication from the model. Lana successfully ran her CAD business and worked as the CAD manager for an international MEP engineering firm in Seattle. Lana is a Certified Autodesk Trainer and NECA certified electrical estimator. Currently pursuing her MBA in Sustainability and based in the Ideate ATC in Seattle, Lana provides training and services for AutoCAD MEP, Autodesk Revit MEP and Autodesk Navisworks. @LanaGMEP

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What's New in Ideate Explorer for Revit 2012

Large projects can be difficult to navigate - but not with Ideate Explorer! We’ve added two significant improvements to Ideate Explorer 2012: Speed and Access to Worksharing information.

We’ve re-engineered our search engine to make Ideate Explorer 2012 at least two times faster than the previous version. A 280 MB file now takes around one minute to index all objects. Finding the objects you need has never been easier.

Now, in version 2012, Ideate includes Workset data. In this image, the Keyword Search is being used to show all the items with the word “curtain” and on Level 6. When the first instance of Curtain Wall 1 is selected, the properties panel shows the new fields for both Workset and Edited by (only if it’s a worksharing enabled project).

Sorting your project by Workset is sure to become another critical project auditing methodology. With the new View drop-down option to organize by Workset you can easily scan the contents of each Workset and find objects that have been misplaced.  In this screenshot, for example, we can see that several items have been mistakenly placed within our Links and Shared Level worksets.

To fix this problem using Ideate Explorer:

1. Select the checkbox next to each incorrect instance
2. Exit Ideate Explorer
3. Using Revit Properties palette, switch the Workset parameter to Workset1 or other appropriate Workset choice.

Ideate Explorer lets you easily search your Revit project for hard to find elements so that you can quickly make the edits you need. Ideate Explorer is the number one tool for auditing Revit projects and nipping them in the bud.

Check out the What’s New video for Ideate Explorer 2012 on YouTube or on Screencast.

Learn more at ideateexplorer.com.

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N.C.A.R.B. – Director of Services
Glynnis is a Registered Architect and has worked within the BIM industry since 1998. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, she has worked as an architect, educator and construction site manager. Glynnis is currently the Director of Development Services at Ideate, Inc. and continues to work with AEC clients across the nation, developing, and implementing best practices solutions. In her spare time Glynnis is a member of the Morristown Environmental Commission and builds Lego projects. @GVPinNJ

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Existing Ceiling Grids in Revit

In the last Revit Architecture class that I instructed at Ideate, Inc., a student had a great question that I thought I would share here.

We were discussing the topic of ‘Phasing’ in Revit, and the student was trying to figure out how to show the ceiling grid in the existing ACT ceiling ‘grayed out.’ Changing the Existing Phase Graphic Override to a gray color would only change the outline of the ceiling to gray, but what about the 2x4 ceiling tile pattern?

The answer was to change the color of the surface pattern in the Existing Phase Graphic Overrides to gray, see screen shot below:

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Shruti Harve,
LEED AP, AEC Solutions Application Specialist
Shruti holds a Master of Science degree in Architectural Computing from University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom and is LEED accredited. Her experience includes working in Architecture and Construction firms in India and the United Kingdom as well as Structural Engineering firms in the Bay Area providing design, 3D modeling and drafting services. At Ideate, Shruti provides training and support for Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, 3ds Max, Ecotect and AutoCAD Architecture.

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