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Adjusting Project North, True North, and Plan Orientation in Revit

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 How can I make West be Up in my drawings? OR North is Up in my drawings but it’s not  “really” North. What’s the difference between Project North and True North? OR How do I  get my project located to match my survey?   Each Revit project file has its own internal coordinate system which by default is only known  to the project. If your project is a stand-alone, you may be able to live with this internal  system. By default, North is toward the top of the project and truly faces north.  When you first start a project, you should specify the project location using either Internet  Mapping, the nearest major city, or latitude and longitude so that you can generate location- specific shadows if necessary. Note that you can add new cities to the list by editing the file  SiteAndWheatherStationName.txt. (If you don’t have actual survey data, Google the latitude  and longitude for the city you want to add.)  If you’ve started modeling yo...
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Quick shortcut in Revit

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  Use Snap Overrides shortcuts to select a snap position for a single click   Snap                                                  Shortcut Endpoints                                                       SE Midpoints                                                       SM Nearest                                                         ...
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How automatically you can adjust the space between dimension

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 Sometime we need to place the baseline dimension at equal space so that it's looks aesthetically good. We can did it automatically by DIMSPACE command. To do that at first we need to put DIMSPACE command or select DIMSPACE option then select the dimension with respect to which we want to change the gap between the other dimension. Then put enter the ten put the space value. You can see that the dimensions are adjust automatically. For more clarity on that kindly see my attach video.
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What new at AutoCAD 2021

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AutoCAD 2021 has following new features Quick mode in Trim and Extend Quick Measure Drawing History Revision Cloud Enhancement Sync Insert Recent Block XREF  Compare Now let discus them all one by one Quick mode in Trim and Extend Quick mode is not a new feature. We had this feature for years, but now it becomes the default mode. With the quick mode, we don’t need to define boundaries. AutoCAD will automatically use the nearest crossing object as the boundary. And what is nice is now we don’t need to activate F (Fence) to trim/extend multiple lines at once. Quick Measure The Quick Measure is introduced in AutoCAD 2020. This command allows us to measure the distance between objects without clicking two points. This feature is enhanced in AutoCAD 2021. Now we can measure the area and perimeter within a boundary quickly. Drawing History Drawing history utilize versioning feature in cloud storage services. AutoCAD has a DWG compare featur...
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AutoCAD Tips & Tricks 2020.3

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How to select the object which is at DEFPOINT layer DEFPOINTs layer is used for the object which we are not want to show at print. Some time we draw some object into this layer or sometime mistakenly some object go to the DEFPOINT layer. One problem occur with this layer is that sometime we are unable to select the object at this layer. Now I'm telling you how to resolve this kind of problem. Check the ZERO (0) layer is turn on and not frozen Regenerate the model by using REGEN command Select all the object in DEFPOINTS layer by Quick Select, then move the object and UNDO the action. Now you can select the object at DEFPOINTS layer. Match Property setting If we want to put a number of object into same property like layer,color,line type,line weight then match property is a very useful tool if we know it's setting properly. To change Match Property setting we need to put MATCHPROP command then select the source object then type S and hit enter bu...
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AutoCAD Tips & Tricks 2020.2

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Customizing your AutoCAD command If you are new in AutoCAD and unable to memorized your useful AutoCAD command or you are an AutoCAD professional and want to customized your command so that your productivity can improved then it can be possible by ALIASEDIT command. By using this command a popup window is open to your screen at which all commands are shown. You can add or edit your command from this window. If you want to edit a command then just select edit and a Edit Command Alias window is open from where type actual command at AutoCAD Command part and your customized command at Alias part. Like if I want to use L  at the place of LINE command then I need to put LINE  at AutoCAD Command part & L at Alias part. Now I can use L at the place of LINE command. Exploding Attribute Block Attribute Block is a useful tool for preserving text style & text size We can use it for creating Title Block, View Name and so many things. We have only one problem with the...
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Why you should need to apply BIM at your Construction Project

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Source:  https://www.saint-gobain.com/ What is BIM ?     B uilding Information Modeling (BIM) is a 3D model based process which gives Architecture, Engineering Construction professional an insight tool to more efficiently Design, Plan & Manage their Construction Project.In one word we can say Building Information Modeling is process of generating Digital Data for a construction work. Although if I say that BIM is only a 3D model based process then I'm not fully correct. BIM has another three dimension, Time(4D), Cost(5), As Built Operation(6D). Source:  https://planetearth5.com/    Why you should use BIM?  I n modern world population is going to increase rapidly. This rapidly increasing population is now turn into a challenge for AEC  professionals. Now they would have to create more buildings more infrastructures,hospitals,industries and other public facilities with more capacity than previous with  a short of t...
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