07 May

How to save system family as external loadable family

As you already know, there are three kinds of families in Revit®: system families, model-in-place families and external (loadable) families (also know as .RFA files).

Some Revit® categories are exclusively system categories (families of those categories can be created only in project environment), for example: Walls, Stairs, Floors and similar categories. There are, however, hybrids (can both have system and external families in the same category), for example Structural Foundation categories but they are topic for some other time. Read More

03 May

Show Thin Lines in PDF

Did you know that you can show your PDF drawing with vector lines? (simply said: lines that have constant (thin) line weights no matter how much you zoom in).

You will need to open your drawing with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Thin lines feature in Adobe® Reader® shows content the same way such as Thin Lines command in Revit®, for example. Read More