Today I watched episode 99 of BIM After Dark, hosted by the Revit Kid. The guest presenter was Nicolas Catellier (Revit Pure), showing Advanced Revit Family Concepts. However much you might think you know about Revit, there is always something new to learn.
One tip that I picked up was the ability to zoom in the Family Types dialog box – this can be useful when you are editing families on a high resolution screen and the text is tiny. Editing a complex formula is painful enough in Revit without having to squint to count the brackets at the end of a formula.
Family Editor Zoom
Just click in the Family Types dialog box, hold down the Ctrl key and use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in or out.
There is one problem with doing this: it plays havoc with the column widths.
- The Lock column will most likely no longer fit in the dialog box
- A horizontal scroll bar may appear at the bottom of the dialog box
- If you click in one of the formulas, it tries to display the whole formula…