I have been trying to create a ramp for cars, leading from the ground floor to the parking level and I have come across yet another cool feature.

This is what I was going for:

So I drew a floor and made one of the short edges define a slope:

Easy.

Now, since I knew the length of the ramp and the height I would normally dredge up my high-school math and find that in a triangle with a right angle I get the angle I need by taking the invertet tangent from the result of dividing the height by the length.

Or, and that's the nice part, I can simply divide the height by the length and type in the percentage I get!
And Revit will calculate the graded angle for me. Nice!

While (almost) everyone was complaining about the new GUI in Revit 2010 in the beginning, acceptance seems to have set in.

If, however, you still don't like it and want you old 2009 GUI back, read this article from Autodesk. There you can donwload a workaround to get the 2009 GUI back for your new Revit.

But be careful, there will be no support for this or any other guarantee, that it will even work. So, try at your own risk!

Importing large dwg-files can be problematic:

When your project becomes larger than 2 miles (around 3.2km) across, Revit will run into trouble due to inaccuracies that can occur so far away from zero. In the past, all you got was a warning, but with 2010, Revit just tells you no.

But what about large masterplans that you want to use to place your project? Apart from opening them in AutoCAD, deleting everything around the site and resaving it?

Well, here's one way:

Instead of letting Revit choose the Import Units, select Custom and give it a manual number. In this case I am telling Revit that one unit in the dwg is one unit in Revit.
This is strictly speaking not true, as one unit in the dwg is one meter, whereas one unit in Revit is one mm. But hey.

I then go ahead and resize the dwg to the size I need, using the Ribbon > Modify dwg > Scale command after selecting the dwg. Even though the project is now bigger than 2 miles, I get no error.

There has been another update published for Revit. Please follow this link:

Autodesk Revit Architecture Update 2

It looks like it's mainly a stability improvement, but for me, that's an important issue (see my post from a few days ago.)

Anyway, go forth and install.

As you can see, I have changed the look of my blog into something a bit more "architecture". Or whatever.

Let's see how long this one lasts, as I think that it's waaaaay too easy to change the layout. I just can't stop myself.