One of the new features that Revit 2020 has been Travel Paths. There are probably many uses for this new feature, but for me it will be used for egress code analysis. In the past I have used about three different hacks to get the egress lengths. I've uesed several generic components and added up the lengths, I've used an adaptive component to get the egress lengths, but what I had used the most a Revit railing system I specially made for calculating the egress lengths. Now with this new travel paths feature I no longer need to use any of these hacks.
I've started one project in 2020 and have begun to use and understand the new feature. I will say it works pretty good, but I can tell it is a first generation, and still needs a lot of work. The Travel Path function automatically calculates the shortest route between two points. This is great, right well, no. I need a little more control of where the points go. So to control how the path goes I've had to create some fake objects to get it to go in the direction I want it to go in. Now comes the 2020.2 update, in this update Revit can now add nodes to the path so I now have the ability to control the path goes, So I don't need the fake objects. Now we just need the ability to control the look of the arrow heads, and the nodes.


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Over the last couple of years I've been seeing a misunderstanding of the use of General notes. I refer to the US National CAD Standard (NCS) for how to use General Notes. In the NCS, General Notes are categorized to provide clear and organized information across different aspects of a project. Here are the main types of general notes:

General Notes:These notes apply to the entire project and are relevant to all disciplines and sheets within the drawing set. The purpose of these General Notes is to include general instructions, guidelines, and requirements that are applicable to the entire project.

Basically NCS Reference Keynotes is the serious big brother to Sheet keynotes. While Sheet Keynotes are like friendly post-it notes on your drawing Reference Keynotes are the scholarly footnotes of your drawing. Reference keynotes are rooted in the specifications (those hefty documents that architects and engineers love to go to sleep to, I mean pore over).

One of the earliest Revit Add-in's I've ever used has been E-Transmit. I say add-in because it still shows up on the Add-In tab, even though it installs with all current versions of Revit it was initially something you had in to install separately.

For years I've just used it to gather all the files of the project to be able to cleanly send my model to the other designers(engineers) of the project or the client in some cases.

To Supplement my Light Well blog I created a video where i've gone through the process.

I would have said short video, but it is a little over 10 minutes long and that is only because I edited the heck out of video. cutting some part out and sped up some of that parts, otherwise it was closer to 30 minutes.

Yesterday, I had an issue with a survey drawing that I got from an owner. The PDF that the owner gave me showed contour on the site. But when I opened up the Autocad file instead of seeing the contours all I saw was a bunch of dots.

There are a two of ways to manage the Worksets of linked models. The first is the official Autodesk method the second is kind of a hack that worked before the official method came about.

First method

From the link manger there is a button called Manage Worksets that highlights when you select one of the Revit links. From this button the Manage Workset menu of the linked file comes up and you can see all of the Worksets of the linked model.

Over the years that I've been using Revit I've detailed light wells Revit. These are had usually been windows that have windows on the exterior of the building that have wider openings on the inside of the building. This is usually done in a double wall, so I'm only talking about ten to eighteen inches in thickness. In most cases these light wells were in stair wells to bring more light into the dark space of the stair well.

Setting up a site model needs to be setup as soon as you receive a Site Survey. Now that I'm back to working on Revit projects this is a subject that I've been researching for the last couple of weeks, to be able to write a proper process for the firm I work for.

Key Plan Detail Component

It been awhile since I've posted anything but I had created this video about Key Plan's and I thought I would post this on this blog.

Key plan are an orientation devices to understand where you are in the building. Over the years I used several different methods for show a keyplan of sheets in Revit. I've used live views so that it changes when the plan changes, I've used Revit Legends, but the best method I've found is to use a detail component.

AU 2020 Digital Day 1 started with me checking out a 30 minute virtual session of Using Revit to Design for Social Distancing: New Tools and How to Use Them this was a good session that discussed the People Flow toolkit. This presentation explained how this tool pushes the Revit travel path tool more.

Then can the AU General session and the AEC keynote. It was interesting to watch these sessions live with some of my co-workers.
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