Turning Off 'Double-click Rename' Behavior in Revit's Project Browser

Today's post comes compliments of industry expert Pieter Schiettecatte from A+I in New York City.

Lately, I have found myself accidentally renaming views and sheets in the project browser by slowly double clicking on them.

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My 'Water in Architectural Design' Enscape article featured on ArchDaily

I wrote an article about developing realistic looking water for architectural renderings using Ensacpe.

That article is featured on ArchDaily this week. Check it out here: https://www.archdaily.com/catalog/us/products/14224/water-in-architectural-design-enscape

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Upgrading Revit Projects and Content with CTC BIM Batch Suite

Its that time of year, when the latest version of Revit has been out long enough to make it viable to deploy firm wide. For some, that also means upgrading content... others leave a single depository of families at the oldest version of Revit still being used internally.

This post will highlight the tool I use for the massive upgrade project... CTC Software's Prog & Fam Upgrader, found in their CTC BIM Batch Suite add-in for Revit.

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My Enscape gallery Page

Just because, I decided to create a sub-page on my blog to collect and display my favorite images rendered in Enscape.

Previously, to find an image to show someone a result or talk about a technique, I would have to open several blog posts on both my blog and the Enscape blog, where I have written many posts. Some of these images are work related, some are from my blog or Revit books and others are from the Enscape blog.

I plan to add to this page as new images are created or projects become shareable!

That page has a place for comments at the bottom... I would love to hear your feedback.

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In Memory of César Pelli

Last week, César Pelli, one of my favorite architects passed away at 92. There are many interesting articles that have been published in the last few days, such as this one from The New York Times: Cesar Pelli, Designer of Iconic Buildings Around the World, Dies at 92.

Albeit very small, I have a couple personal connections I would like to share in this post.

All the images in this post are photos I have personally taken. I would like to have included a photo of Mr. Pelli, but the only one I had, which I was in, was taken with a cheap two-megapixel early 2000's era camera in a low light condition!

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Virtual Project Tours of Real Projects

I have been wanting to use our 360 Photosphere camera to create a virtual tour of a project. We finally did just that last week for a project in construction; Hermantown Essentia YMCA Wellness Center. The  local Chamber of Commerce held an open house last night and attendees got to get in the project and safely view it without actually going to the site. We already did Virtual Reality, and now that the project is under construction, we wanted to present something new.

Another interesting thing about this project is how we used ElumTools to do specialized daylighting calculations to comply with Minnesota's B3 program (similar to LEED). The image below shows the favorable results; solatubes fully lighting the interior space with just daylight!

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Revit Elevation not Perpendicular to Wall and More

Elevations must be perfectly perpendicular to a wall (as shown in the first image below) otherwise there are issues with being able to dimension, and/or their values. Also, in this case, the 3D object appears rather than the (sometimes) simplified symbolic lines developed in the family.

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