Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Inserting Symbols in Revit Text

Just a little tip for you.  Let's say you want to include the "degrees" symbol or "plus\minus" symbol in your Revit text.  The Revit text editor doesn't directly give you this capability...but it is possible.  Here are the steps.

1) Start the Microsoft Windows Character Map tool.
It's found All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools.
or go to Start -> Run -> Type in "Charmap"

2) Find the symbol and Click the "Select" button followed by the "Copy" button which copys the symbol to the windows clipboard.

3) In Revit start editing your text and simply Paste the symbol.

That's it.

HTH (Hope This Helps)
Troy

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Free Autocad Macros @ myCADD.com

We've assembled a long list of macros over the years and have made many of them available on www.myCADD.com.   Register for free and you can download any of the following macros.

BA - Break At - Allows you to break lines, polylines etc. at a single point - and with a single click.
BF -Breadk First - Allows you to break lines with a gap with only 2 clicks.
C - Copy Multiple - Redefine the copy command so it is a copy multiple macro
C0 - Copy with 0,0,0 basepoint
P0 - Paste with 0,0,0 basepoint
SS - Select Similar - Select one object to automatically select all objects of the same type on the same layer.
STB - Send to Back
BTF - Bring to Front
VL - Viewport Lock (pick viewport to lock)
VUL - Vewport Unlock  (pick viewport to unlock)
LAV - Lock all Viewports
ULAV - Unlock all Viewports
XLD - Xline Delete - Delete all construction lines (xlines)
XRA - XREF Reload All - Reload all Xrefs
XRR - XREF Full Reload - Turns off visretain, reloads xref and re-enables visretain.
ZA - Zoom All
ZD - Zoom Dynamic
ZE - Zoom Extents
ZP - Zoom Previous
ZW - Zoom Window

We also have a couple utilities which you may find useful.


Expand Hatch and Plot Dialog Boxes - The plot and hatch dialog boxes were redesigned in Autocad 2006.  In order that they don't cover the entire screen they are shown by default in "collapsed" mode.  Unfortunately, collapsed mode does not make all of the options visible.  This macro forces the dialogs to start in expanded mode.

CUI Switch  - This one is for CADD managers.  When developing you own custom menus (CUI files) only the "Main" CUI is editable while the "Enterprise" CUI is locked.  This macros swaps the Main and Enterprise CUI making the Enterprise editable.  Run the macro again to switch them back.