Rub-a-dub-dub we made a Tub!

We recently started a quick turnaround project here at Hayne for a bathroom remodel.  Plumbing fixtures are already selected and ordered, so now we need to double-time it and get our construction package complete and to the contractor…  Hopefully, they haven’t started demo yet… Looking through the specs, we have a few items that do…

Things we Love to HATE: Infill Walls in Revit

Hear me out… Revit does awesome things and we are big fans BUT there are still some things that drive us a wee bit mad. Yep, you guessed it, infill walls are one of those things! You can’t phase it. You can’t touch it. You can’t put new things in it. You can’t edit it…

Software Spotlight: Revit 2024 & Toposolids…

As you know, we recently updated our Revit software to the 2024 version (see our Twin Motion and Twin Motion versus Enscape posts) and one of the new features is Toposolids. What is a toposolid? Well, it’s a topo surface that is solid of course! Ha! Creating & Modifying the Toposolid Surface Creating & modifying…

The Hayne Way: From Trace Paper to Presentation

Now we all know that Here@Hayne, we love Revit… However, there are times when the project is starting and different design options are still being explored. Revit has a design option tool but we find that it isn’t the most efficient way of working especially when walls and large parts of the building are going…

Hayne Chit-Chats: BIM Modeling

*Setting the scene* Polli comes into work excitingly because she has thought of something that she thinks will make modeling in the schematic phase much more efficient.   BLANCA! I totally thought of something that will make modeling easier when first working in the project! Oh! That’s awesome Polli! What did you come up with?…

Product Spotlight: Big Green Egg

Hello Friends! Welcome back to the last week of March. Let’s carry on the goodness of sharing with another Revit Component download. This week I thought it’d be fun to share a component that we made a few years back: Big Green Egg. It’s a unique BBQ that looks exactly how it sounds! In this…

Product Spotlight: Grohe_Eurocube Line

Hello lovelies! If you saw our last post, we shared the Water Works Bond collection Revit components we made and we thought, why don’t we keep the sharing going!? So this week we will be sharing the Revit components we made from Grohe: Eurocube collection. We are using them for a residential project in Washington!…

Product Spotlight: Water Works Bond Collection

Hey Friends! To tie into our last week’s post, we thought we’d share some of our Revit components that we’ve built. Back in 2020 we did a spotlight post on the Water Works Bond collection we had specified for our client. The collection is a very sleek and modern set with awesome textured finishes. If…

Tips & Tricks: Program Shortcuts We Love!

Hello Friends! This week we are going to share some of our favorite shortcuts PDF The CTRL+F shortcut brings up the “find” bar which you can quickly search for key words in the PDF. This is very helpful if you need to find something in meeting minutes to help prove you are right… I mean…

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…