I'm loading a family that is giving me the error "Invalid column unit type: POUNDS" A second message says "Could not parse column header:Unit Weight" With Revit 2020 the family works fine. When loading the Revit family on Revit 2021 I get that error. I checked my units and The only difference is that Revit 20 has Pounds per cubic foot but in Revit 2021 it has Pounds force per cubic feet for the Unit weight units. I'm not sure if there is a way to change the units to not include the force part, oo if I can edit the parameter text file to include it so maybe Revit can read the Unit weight properly. I'm not sure if the force part is messing up with the family but that's the only thing I can think of. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
I guess that starting from the shared parameters I touch, which I know, I could check for filters using those parameters and from there, I could check which views uses those filters... but once there, should I fake a filter change? Or there is a easier way to force to regen the views?
Recently I had the same weird behaviour when creating materials and assigning them to revit elements or family geometry. They were not displayed correctly until I manually modified material. It would be great to understand the reason of such behaviour. Perhaps our cases are related.
It's possible to select apps to not throttle in nVidia's Program Settings area. I know with other real time rendering apps this can really help. Is there a way to point it to the Enscape Revit Plugin to force this max performance? Is this path to an Enscape exe that nVidia will recognize?
The Revit G-force H2O shoes are mainly coming made of artificial leather along the ankle and heel. On the outside, you then get reinforced ripstop Nylon and the inside of the foot comes with artificial suede to help with durability and grip. You also get a rubber shifter pad as well as seamless TPU film along the eyelets and toe. However, to ensure airflow, the non-waterproof G-Force shoes come with microfiber on the outside of the foot instead of nylon and microfiber perforated sued on the inside of the shoe. The area around the eyelets is also composed of hexagon air mesh for airflow. Lastly, both shoes come with added reflectivity in the back by the heel.
The Revit G-Force H2O Motorcycle Boots are bringing a strong level of urban sport design alongside a balance of comfort, price and safety. From their waterproofing option to numerous reinforcements, the G-Force are coming with plenty to be interested in.
There is a bug in the Revit model parsing that causes viewer items to show and hide and not be selectable. I remember someone telling me once that I could force model derivative to use the Navis parser in place of the Revit as a workaround. Anyone know hoe to do this?
Wishing it were that simple, we are still running into it. Naturally there is another ARTICLE that mentions they are still researching the issue but that using Force Relinquish (BIM 360 Manage Cloud Models option) can cause this situation too. This requires us to clear the collaboration cache for a user who has forced us (haha) to use Force Relinquish. We are still in the diagnosis phase ourselves so we're not convinced of anything yet.
"This is happening because somebody has used Manage Cloud Models to force relinquish that user from that link, which breaks the link in the host model for the affected user."
"Note: Force Relinquish is a destructive operation and should be used sparingly! It is intended to be used as a last resort when the user to be relinquished is unavailable for some reason."
"If someone has been forced out through Force Relinquish, then all the changes that they have not synced, become orphaned and lost. While the central model will be unaffected by the use, people can lose work (and have to close and reopen the model which will be slow)."
"It is better for the user to open the model and use Relinquish All Mine to relinquish their permissions rather than using the Manage Cloud Models dialog."
Okay, that's fair. However the new named user subscription based model "forces" this option on us (not haha) at large because we can't pretend to be another user anymore. As soon as we log off to become that user we lose our Revit session too. Catch 22
Thank you for posting this. This has been a known problem for months and it has affected multiple models in our firm. In a big, multi-office firm, where everyone is working from home, it has been nearly impossible to get the word out to every corner of the firm that users should not force-relinquish users under almost any circumstances. But there is no way to curb the user who is working late, discovers that someone left without relinquishing, and so searches the internet for "force relinquish BIM 360". I'm so angry with Autodesk that they didn't take down these pages on force relinquishing the moment they understood what a problem this is. On a large project this can takes hours to fix not to mention the countless hours of work lost for the project team. It's been months since Autodesk first posted their difficult-to-find mea culpa about this issue claiming that they were working on a solution. The least they could do is to take down all the (easy-to-find) instructions on how to force relinquish.
Imagine a plan view of a piece of horizontal pipe drawn "sideways" on the screen. I am able to insert a 45 branch so that it points up to the right. If however I attempt the same thing - only to the other side so that the branch would point down to right - Revit will force the branch to be placed the opposite way - pointing down to the left. The pipe has no slope, so I don't understand why Revit would have an "opinion" about the branchs' direction. And why does it accept it in the first instance? The branch has has a symbol which will switch its direction once placed, but as soon as I attempt a pipe run from the branch, Revit immediately switches it back. Any idea why this happens??
For people working in BIM 360, go to manage cloud models, select the folder , in front of the revit file name select the actions icon and relinquish. You can force relinquish for the users not in use. Please note, do not select the users currently working in the model.
Prying force formation at bolts is considered as an important problem in steel connection design. It affects the connection bearing capacity, ductility and serviceability negatively by increasing stresses induced inside connections. In the present work, behavior of steel connection under prying force is studied. A connection of steel beam-column has been modeled using software Revit program. Tension load is applied increasingly and the connection displacement has been measured until failure. Finite element simulation of steel angles under the effect of tension load and prying force has been studied. It is found that the connection has three phases of bearing behavior. Plastic hinge formation noticed increased with prying force presence.
Brute force is the simplest approach; indirect illumination is computed independently for each shaded surface point by tracing a number of rays in different directions on the hemisphere above that point. For more information, see the Brute Force GI topic.
Light caching is a technique for approximating the global illumination in a scene. It is very similar to photon mapping, but without many of its limitations. The light map is built by tracing many many eye paths from the camera. Each of the bounces in the path stores the illumination from the rest of the path into a 3d structure, very similar to the photon map. The light map is a universal GI solution that can be used for both interior or exterior scenes, either directly or as a secondary bounce approximation when used with the irradiance map or the brute force GI method. For more information, see the Light Cache GI topic.
When you use a BIM link to load data from FEA programs to IDEA StatiCa, the algorithm finds the values of selected load cases/combinations/classes in the node and performs the import of forces. Given the law of mechanics, the equilibrium of the internal forces in the node must be present. Unfortunately, the equilibrium is sometimes not achieved after the import.
Case: A point force is placed in the node imported to IDEA StatiCa. The software cannot detect which member should transfer this point force and, therefore, it is not taken into account in the analysis model.
Case: Loaded, non-steel (usually timber or concrete) member is connected to the imported node. Such a member is not considered in the analysis and its internal forces are ignored in the analysis.
Case: There is a seismic load in the structural model. The imbalance is caused by the nature of the calculation method widely used. In seismic states, the values of individual internal forces are calculated using the square root of the sum of powers and therefore they are all positive, and this way they are also imported.
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