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…

Project Spotlight: Bellagio Place

Another one for the books! YAY! We are excited to share the completed interior remodel of a Master Closet Suite! It was an absolute pleasure working with Nathan Turner again! Check out the video below to see the transformation of the design in the model to the walk through of the completed remodel! We are…

Tips and Tricks: How we build our Revit Component Library

As we build our Revit models, we also build our Revit Library. Now, the Revit Library has come a long way since we started using the program in 2012, but it is not never-ending, even if our boss thinks it is (hahaha)… See our Revit Library ratings here. So here are the places we look…

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…

Project Spotlight: Murphy Way

Hillside homes can be very tricky to design. You want to try to balance cut and fill, allowing the house to follow with the hillside rather than just carving out a flat pad and sticking a two-story house on it (definitely not site appropriate). With our Murphy Way project, we started out with a series…

the Hayne Way: Pop it in…

Boss man: “Can you just pop this in the model?” the Girls: “Ummm… sure… Just give us a little bit of time…” (Thinking to themselves that we need to review the concept of Revit Families again…) [Hmmm… there are only overall dimensions and general materials called out… Ok, let’s break it down and see what…

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 Update: Reynolds Court Material

Hey there! Last time when we talked about our schematic design process, we used our Thousand Oaks project as an example to walk you through it. Now that we have been moving through Design Development and into Construction Documents we have some more things refined. We’ve picked materials, appliances and plumbing fixtures that are coming…

Project Spotlight: Let there be Jellyfish!

Here@Hayne we have a new project on the boards and we are totally digging it! I mean, who doesn’t want to work on a house with a jellyfish tank??? Here is a snapshot of the project as we move into design development and start looking at materials, space planning and cabinetry details. You enter directly…

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…