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Hayne Architects Updates Website… Finally!
Hayne Architects is finally adding some new (and some old) projects to the website! Click on the images below to see more project photos!
REVIT Best Practices: Setting up a Project Template Part 6 – Typical Doors & Windows
Continuing on our REVIT template journey, we are going to look at loading some typical door and window families. Although the standard REVIT door and window families aren’t horrible, they don’t offer the level of flexibility I like when jumping into REVIT. They are one of the first families I always load, so why not…
REVIT Best Practices: Setting up a Project Template Part 5 – Typical Walls, Roofs, Floors and Ceilings
We’re baaaaaaaaaaccccccccckkkkkkkk!! After a brief hiatus, when our office was on project deadline overload, we are going to continue setting up our Revit Project Template. The bare bones of the project template is complete, and has been utilized for a new project we are working on in Toluca Lake (stay tuned). As expected there were…
REVIT Best Practices – Setting up a Project Template Part 3 – Titleblocks & Browser Organization
After a brief hiatus (thanks flu…) we are back working on our REVIT project Template. Last time, we uploaded our standard symbols and tags. This week we are going to upload our typical titleblocks and edit the browser organization. Because we have been using REVIT for a while, we have a few (to say the…
REVIT Best Practices – Setting up a Project Template Part 2 – Annotation Text & Symbols
Well, we’ve done it… We finally started our Revit Project Template after years of procrastination! Last week we looked at line types and line weights. This week we are going to revise the standard annotation text (NO ARIAL) and get rif of all of those standard REVIT symbols (let’s face it, they are way to…
REVIT Best Practices – Creating a Project Template Part 1 – Origin and Line weights
Last week was all about mental preparation. This week we will focus on the most frustrating REVIT graphic that I always forget to adjust when starting a new project… LINE WEIGHTS! Ok. Let’s dive right in. Now SAVE your template! Let’s take a breather… Next time we will look at adjusting our text and…
REVIT Best Practices: Creating a Project Template Part 1 – Mental Preparation
I have a love/hate relationship with templates. I LOVE using templates, but I HATE setting them up. I am a huge advocate of having and using templates in a small firm to increase efficiency and productivity. We have office templates (thanks EntreArchitect for generating our base files!) to generate proposals, do cost estimating, set up specification…
Same Tools, Different Uses
If you are anything like us, then I am sure at some point in time you have found yourself in a pickle! Luckily for you, here@HAYNE we have many tips and tricks up our sleeves that we are willing to share to help you out! For this week, we will go through some of our…