Meetings are vital to the success of a project, whether it be determining the Client’s initial goals and desires, finalizing project specifications, or keeping track of construction. These last few years have felt a little “last minute” with the introduction of Zoom, where you can essentially set up project meetings in minutes from anywhere, but…
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Tips & Tricks: A Successful Zoom Call
Hello Friends! We are ready to wrap up the month of September with one last Tips & Tricks post: Ways to have a successful Zoom call. With the pandemic slowing down, people have returned to the office and returned to somewhat a “normality.” But many things have stuck around even returning to the office, video…
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…
Tips & Tricks: PDF word Search
After every meeting and site visit here at Hayne we generate Meeting Minutes or Field Reports to be distributed to the project team. This creates a record of decisions made during the design phase (i.e. eliminated the sink in the lower level bar) and/or the construction phase (i.e. change the color of the fireplace from…
Revit Tips & Tricks: Quick Component Fix
Have you ever downloaded a component that looked like what you needed? After you open the file and see there are existing parameters you think “Heck yes! Score!”… then you change the dimension of one of the parameters … and … it doesn’t work correctly!! *GASP* Well that happened to me but thankfully it was an…
the As-Hole Built Series: All the Chickens in the Coop
This week we continued working on our Reynolds Court house remodel, but we moved the design to the outside in order to link the inside and the outside for that true California-style indoor/outdoor living vibe. The main feature will be a new pool, but there will also be a chicken coop to integrate, areas for…
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…
Tips & Tricks: Adding Custom Energy Values to the Door and Window Schedules
The energy efficiency of our buildings is important and one way that we verify our code compliance with current energy codes is to define the energy efficiency of our windows and doors. Here at Hayne we typically identify the Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC) and the U-Value for our openings based on the window and…
Tips & Tricks: Spline Length in Revit
Hello again! We hope you are staying safe as we continue through these quarantine times. Our office continues to work remote and we were recently asked to create a fire access plan with paths that were fluid, not linear, and calculate their lengths to show they meet code. The first thing I thought was “easy-peasy”…
Tips & Tricks: Calculating Minimum Plumbing Fixtures Required with REVIT
With a few commercial projects in development here at Hayne, we have been spending time reviewing the Building Code (thank you UpCodes!) to calculate occupancy and minimum plumbing fixtures required. When we worked in AutoCad this would be completed as a separate calculation, maybe in the floor plan file or in an excel file. This…
Tips & Tricks: Casework in REVIT
a work in progress… With our primary focus on high-end custom residential work, we tend to work on detailing a lot of custom cabinetry. Matthew Anthony Stokes is a stickler for accuracy in these drawings and sometimes getting Revit to cooperate is difficult. Adding detail in our 2D AutoCAD drawings was easy enough, but adding…