However, if you have any MEP objects, Revit plan regions won’t work on MEP objects.
Plan Regions: General Discussion > Revit Project Management. At some point several plan regions were added to this view. Most light fixtures are ceiling or face based, which we will reference for an example.
In this video, you will learn how to use Regions in Revit. The idea is simple: create a zone in your floor plan or RCP with a different cutting plane, foreground clip and background clip. If you are a 2012 user and still have 2011 loaded, you can basically copy the 2011 family RFT files from the C:ProgramDataAutodeskRME 2011Imperial Templates folder and paste them into the C:ProgramDataAutodeskRME 2012Family TemplatesEnglish_I folder for your 2012 product.Plan region revit Finishes. Note that this list does not include Annotation, Conceptual Mass, Titleblock, or Project templates: See below for a list of total family templates in each product, at least by my count. What I found, and what makes this even more interesting, is that the family templates listed above were included with 2011! So, what happened in 2012? I can’t answer that question, but the good news is the templates are back in 2013.
Once I reviewed Doug’s list, I decided to compare the content of all Revit 2011, 2012, and 2013 products.
You can review the PDF for a complete comparison matrix, but the following is worth mentioning: Electrical Equipment, Electrical Fixture, Lighting Fixture, Linear Lighting Fixture, Mechanical Equipment, Plumbing Fixture, Specialty Equipment, and Spot Lighting Fixture. I started reading it, but before I could finish the first paragraph, something caught my eye…” A previous blog post lists each of the family templates installed with the various Revit packages,” so I clicked through and am so glad I did! The post from October 2011 is entitled Templates Provided with Revit 2012 and contains a link to a PDF that I feel is a very valuable reference for any Revit 2012 user.Īs the MEP guy, I was shocked to learn that Revit MEP 2012 does not include many MEP-specific family templates that a MEP user might expect to find in his/her product.
Yesterday I read a couple of blog posts that I mustshare with my fellow Revit users…įirst and foremost, as the MEP guy here at Microsol Resources, I was focusing on MEP-related content and found this MEP Connectors and Revit Architecture post by Doug Bowers last November.