Tips & Tricks: Edit Revit Component Thumbnail Image

We are back with some helpful (hopefully) tips & tricks for you to use. Have you ever clicked on a Revit component before to see what the preview image is because the name of the file is “tub”… but it’s a small hard to see plan view? Well you can change that! Check out this…

Dressing Up: A Space!

Hillary Hayne is the vignette queen! We love to see her layer materials, patterns, colors, textures and objects to create special moments in any space. Indoor or outdoor. Collected or minimal. Here are some of our favorites from a recent shoot of Hayne Cottage. There are more to come so stay tuned and be ready…

Back to School: High Tech

Welcome back! As promised from last week’s post, we are going to go through some of our high tech wish list items. So check out below to see what we hope our Bossman will approve to “Add to Cart”! 1. VR Headset 2. Go Pro 3. Tile 4. Drone 5. Plotter 6. Teleporter Machine Hope…

the Hayne Way: My Favorite Revit Tools

We are a Revit office.  And we have been a Revit office since 2012.  We have a lot of experience working in Revit!  Now Revit is not perfect, you just need to checkout our Conversations with Revit Series to see some of our recurring issues, but it has some amazing tools that we absolutely LOVE!…

Project Spotlight: Claremont Kitchen Color Scheme Dilema

To be white or to be blue, that is the question. Out Claremont House interior remodel project continues as we try to finalize our kitchen cabinetry.  The primary focus in this kitchen is the gorgeous French range from Lacanche.  The traditional range we are looking at comes in a variety of colors but we are…

Tips & Tricks: Multiple Drawing Packages in Revit

Every project has its own unique requirements and as such the types of drawings packages we produce can vary from a simple project with one design package to a vary complex project with upwards of six design packages, each designed for a different jurisdictional approval.  How do you make multiple drawings sets in Revit if…

Software Spotlight: Revit Render vs Enscape

Welcome back! As we continue to work in (and love) Enscape, we thought it would be interesting to compare render views from Enscape and Revit. Before using Enscape we would buy credits and send views from Revit to render in the cloud so we could continue to work as it rendered. This was helpful to…

Project Spotlight: Sierra Towers

Our Sierra Towers project is moving full steam ahead.  All of the mirrors and wall paper have been removed and we get to see the space as an open blank canvas!  Ummmm… what’s the deal with all these vent pipes!!! Now some of these pipes were expected and in exactly or very close to where…

Project Spotlight: Sierra Towers Cabinetry

Our Sierra Towers project is moving into construction, and as we start demolition to field verify some existing conditions (like drain pipe and mechanical ductwork locations) we spent some time refining our cabinetry designs.  As we’ve talked about previously, our current work-flow is to create assemblies with individual components. This project is cabinetry heavy and…