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…
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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: Our Default Detail Components in Revit
Hey Friends! We hope you are staying cool in this crazy heat! We know it’s back to school time so we thought we’d share some tips & tricks this month. This week we want to share some of our go – to Detail Revit components we’ve made that are used often. 1. Access Path Line…
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 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…
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…
Counter Encounters: COVID-19 Edition Episode 2
Here at Hayne, we’ve been on deadlines for some of our commercial projects. Submittals have been interesting, to say the least! We thought we would share a couple of our experiences… Scene: Hayne Architects is trying to complete a project submittal for a commercial project at an undisclosed jurisdiction somewhere in the United States of…