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Since I have not been posting a lot of original content recently, I thought I would post some of the questions I get a work. Question: "How do I transfer Filter settings from one project to another?" Below is an example of some Filters that a team might want to transfer from one project to another. Answer: If you want to just transfer the project filters from one project to another, you can use the 'Transfer Project Standards" button that can be found in the Manage tab in the Settings panel. This will allow you can transfer the Filter, but it only transfers the object selection criteria. The individual view settings, don't get transferred. To transfer the object selection criteria and the view settings, you need to create view templates that contain your filters as well as the override settings. You can then transfer view templates from one project to another and apply the view templates to the views. If you are always using the same filter settings in speci

This is a really great post. Sometimes we often overlook the simple solutions in favor of more complex and expensive solutions. Revit OpEd: Finding and Loading Content : Dan Stine wrote the other day, more sharing somewhat related to your post… Finding content: staff often call me asking if we have a “this...

Did you know that Revit has a lot in common with the NSA? Revit tracks a lot of the moves that you make within the software. One of the reasons Revit does this is to track down issues when a model crashes. This information is stored in the Journal file. One other thing you can try to do with Journal files is re-trace your actions. Say you are working in Revit and 20 minutes after your last sync to central, Revit crashes, in therory you could grab the journal file and \ drag the journal file onto the Revit shortcut on your desktop. Revit will open and run the journal file opening the file you were working on and running repeating your previous actions like a macro of script. In theory this works, in practice its not that simple. But it is possible. Many of the Revit benchmark tools that are available use a journal file to time and record a series of tasks. Using a Journal file to restore lost work is more luck than anything else. You can also use the Journal file to see wh

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Revit 2015 Performance Enhancements Thanks to Jeff Hanson for the following post! With each development cycle the Revit team works to develop new features, enhance or expand existing functionality, and improve the overall performance of Revit.  The 2015 development cycle was no different in this respect and overall performance of Revit 2015 has increased when tested against Revit 2014. Of particular note is the performance of graphics related operations.  In our tests we saw the greatest improvements in raster image operations (move, cop, array, etc…), view navigation, and element selection. This year’s Revit development also included a project that alters the internal family data structure which optimizes some computation heavy update operations that are triggered when the model is changed. In some cases we have seen performance in these areas improved up to 30%. Because of the calculation intensive nature of Revit MEP, separate performance statistics are kept for