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Revit 2021
by: Eric Wing
Customization in Revit
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ow! It has been quite a while since I have actually written an article for AUGI. It has been even longer since I have had to really dig into customization. You see, some time ago (a long time ago. Back when politics was boring) I felt it appropriate to switch my firm’s software application from AutoCAD MEP to Revit. I am the BIM Director for a good-sized firm that has every discipline in house. Yeah, Revit is better for trade coordination (bear with me, I’m not giving the tired old BIM pitch here), but it was during a roll out that was just being difficult…none of the mapping was sticking, all of the display configurations were messed up, annotative text wasn’t so…annotative. You get it. I deployed Revit, I had to map like two or three things, and even that was just to get my templates and content away from the samples that get deployed with Revit. That’s it.
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DOWNLOADING REVIT FOR SINGLE INSTALL AND SIGN ON (SSO) So what is my article on? OK, let’s start before you even deploy the software. Downloading the install files from your account can be done in a few ways. If you chose the wrong way, you might not get all of your content. It’s awful, I know. But, at least with the current version of Revit you might find that when you run the application, you’ll not see all of the content. So frustrating. Deploy that to 125 computers. Now you have an issue. Follow these steps to make sure you are downloading everything: 1.
Go to your Autodesk account and find the Revit version you want to download. 2. Click the View All choice as shown in the Figure below. 3. Chose Browser Download. I know it says (slowest), but October 2020
