The Parallax Sync with Central Timer is an addin for Revit 2017-2020 that will install on the PrlxApps Tab within Revit. This addin gradually turn your ribbon red over a user specified amount of time since last “Sync with Central”. As many of you know, not syncing often enough is bad Read more…
The Parallax Arrowhead Assigner is an addin for Revit 2017-2021 that will install on the PrlxApps Tab within Revit. This addin will batch assign a selected arrowhead to Text and Tag Elements based on user selections. This is a process that is otherwise very daunting and can take hours to do on Read more…
If you have ever had to work with in-place families in Revit, you know that they are fairly tough to deal with. Everyone has their reasons for making them, but sometimes far too many are created. This addin will offer a virtual “hand slap” to remind people that this tool needs Read more…
Revit 2019 introduced a long awaited feature, Tabbed Views! All Revit users rejoice! After using this feature for a bit, people started to realize that it was a bit “lacking”. Some of the comments include: Now that we have tabbed views, how do we know which file is which? It Read more…
Let’s face it. We have all had to deal with the infamous “Load Views from File” tool in Revit. Often times, people think that this is the best way to manage the use of typical details. But what happens if quite a few of your typical details have changed?! Enter, Read more…
If you’re a classic Nintendo gamer like us at Parallax Team, you are probably familiar with the phrase, “Do a Barrel Roll!” Well, that nostalgia has been created right in Revit with the Parallax Barrel Roll addin for Revit 2016-2019. This tool will install on the Prlx Tab within Revit and literally Read more…
Heading to BILTNA 2019 Its that time of year, again: John Pierson (@60secondRevit), Vanessa Pierson (@v_pierson) , Alison Beck-Maller, Adelyn Maller, and myself (@twiceroadsfool) are all in the midst of heading to Seattle, for the annual North American BILT (@BILTEvent) conference. Well, we WILL be in the midst of it. Read more…
Hi Everyone, At Parallax Team, we use Dynamo. Like, a lot. Which means, we complain about Dynamo, like, a lot. So instead of just complaining we set out to build tools to make it better. These tools have found their way into a tool called Monocle. Monocle is a view Read more…
On Friday, July 6th, a rather neat idea came up after messing around with some TestFit.io façades. Finally had a chance to mess with the @Test_Fit_io #DynamoBIM package. pic.twitter.com/q4PuTQFT6U — john pierson (@60secondrevit) July 6, 2018 The Tim Allen thing is in reference to a Doom3D post from a long Read more…
With BILTNA only a few weeks away, I wanted to go ahead and outline some of the items we will cover in my class titled, “I Shipped My Scripts: Deploying Dynamo Workflows to Your Firm”. RECAP We will recap some of the nuances with Dynamo versioning and considerations when trying Read more…