After defining your Revit Categories to load when launching Reporter you will see ALL of the Instance and Type based parameters applicable to the category displayed in the data grid which generates the columns accordingly. You will see a RED line when scrolling across which separates the instance parameters from the Type Parameters where all of the Instance Parameters will be displayed to the left hand side of the red line and the Type Parameters will be displayed on the right hand side as per below image. There will no doubt be one or more columns that you may not want to utilise or see for the purposes of what you are trying to capture so for this reason you ...
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With the Aconex Uploader user interface you can control which columns are to be displayed and used in the data grid as required. To access the column chooser click the Check for Updates drop down button on the Settings panel and select Columns. This will launch the Column Visibility dialog box as shown below. The list of available columns displayed in the dialog box is directly controlled by the setup of the actual Aconex Project itself and there is no direct control of those or any ability to modify them using Aconex Uploader hence they will appear ‘greyed out’ in the list. Mandatory Columns and therefore associated data is also controlled by the Aconex Project setup and you cannot turn ...
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Once you have selected your desired colour you can choose whether or not to define a Name Prefix value, include similar colours, include Complimentary colours and to load as a wall paint material by ticking the checkboxes accordingly on the user interface prior to loading it in to your Revit Project. Click the Load Selected Colours button which will then add the colours to your current Revit Project material Browser to be used in your project. You can then check your Revit Material Browser to confirm the new materials have been added.
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With RTV Tools Shared Parameter Manager you can manager your Shared Parameter files that Revit uses for both Project Parameters and Family Parameters. You may have more than one Shared Parameter File present within your organisation however Revit of course can only reference a single parameter .txt file at a time. Using Shared Parameter manager you can manage multiple parameter .txt files stored in the SQL database, create new Shared Parameters, Import/Export Shared Parameters, and even Move / Copy / Clone Shared Parameters within the same Shared Parameter File or between Shared Parameter Files. In order to Manage multiple Parameter Files you must add them via the Manage Shared Parameter Files dialog as per below which will then add them ...
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Configuring the Drawing Number setup and formatting is something you will need to do up front prior to synchronizing with your project as this is what will be used in conjunction with the drawing number on your Sheet Titleblocks. If importing existing sheets from your Revit Project into Drawing Manager then again you will need to first of all configure the Drawing number formatting to match the format in your Revit project in order for the Drawing Number to display correctly when imported into Drawing Manager. With Drawing Manager you can effectively cater for virtually any number sequence or format required no matter how complex it may be for larger projects by utilizing any or all of the available Prefix ...
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You can use this export option when needing to generate Autocad .dwg files from your Revit Project. Firstly select the required Revit Sheets or Revit Views to be exported from the Xporter Pro main interface and then click the Export button from the ribbon. The top half of the Dialog box contain the specific settings and options for the resulting DWG / DXF files as shown by the below image. Export Layer Options – from the drop down there are three options from which to choose. Export Category properties BYLAYER and overrides BYENTITY, Export all properties BYLAYER, do not export overrides, Export all properties BYLAYER, create new layers for overrides. Define layers from – select from the drop down one ...
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Firstly select the required Revit Sheets or Revit Views to be exported from the Xporter main interface and then click the Export button from the ribbon. The top half of the Dialog box contain the specific settings and options for the resulting DWG / DXF files as shown by the below image. Export Layer Options – from the drop down there are three options from which to choose. Export Category properties BYLAYER and overrides BYENTITY, Export all properties BYLAYER, do not export overrides, Export all properties BYLAYER, create new layers for overrides. Load layers – select from the drop down one of the predefined layer export standards (American Institute of Architects, ISO standard 13567, Singapore Standard 83, British Standard 1192) ...
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Once you have setout the data grid and column visibility the way you want it to display in Reporter you can then Save the Column Layout to an .xml file for future use. To do so switch to the active Category Tab in the data grid that you want to save the column layout for and then click the Save Column Layout button from the ribbon. Browse to the location on your machine or network that you wish to save the .xml file and enter a name for the .xml schema as required. Once saved you can use the .xml schema in future by Restoring the Column Layout for the same category tab which will modify the data grid to ...
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The Export Column Schema functionality in Aconex Uploader is designed to work in conjunction with our other Revit plug-in Xporter Pro for the purpose of predefining the mandatory columns and data values when generating the electronic documents out of Xporter Pro. If you are not also using our Xporter Pro plug-in to generate your electronic documents out of Revit then there is no need for you to use the Export Column Scheme function in Aconex Uploader. To do so however go to the Check for Updates drop down button on the Settings panel and select Export Column Schema. Browse to your network location where the .acxml file is to be saved and specify a filename as required. Once saved Xporter ...
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From the RTV Paint User Interface you can query and list all of the existing materials present in your current Revit project by clicking the View Revit Materials button. You can use the search filter field by typing in the name of a material or keyword which will then dynamically filter the material list making it quicker and easier to locate a material. You can also select a Revit material from the list and click the Delete button which will then proceed to delete the Revit Material from your current Revit Project. Note: deleting a material will affect any Revit elements that had the selected material assigned to them as a result. Click yes on the resulting notification dialog box ...
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