It snowed this week and as it always does the snow turned my thoughts to Christmas and decorating. By the time this is posted to my blog I will be knee deep in the holly and jolly. First however I have to crawl under the stairs and dig out the Christmas decorations. Always an unpleasant [...]

Revit 2010 introduced a new annotation symbol. The spot slope. The Revit documentation shows this symbol as an arrow or triangle as is usually used in a wall section. However this annotation can do more than just that.

What’s the difference between masking regions and drafting regions? I mean why can’t I just make a solid white drafting region? Below is a comparison.

For those of you who have read my post on the linework tool in Revit “lines versus overrides“, you’ll know I rarely use it. It’s a handy tool to make errant lines disappear (using the <invisible> linetype) but apart from that I find it too unstable. Another area I was taught to use the linework [...]

I was approached by an architect a few months ago to produce presentation drawings for an auto dealership he had designed. On the presentation drawings he wanted a red bar across the bottom of the page with white text declaring the name of the sheet. It sounds simple but turned out to be a problem.