If you want to quickly check an opening height and also show the opening width, you can do this with a simple check box in the Dimension Type Properties.

These dimensions work with Door and Window Families. The resulting dimension will display the opening height underneath the opening width dimension.

Now you can display the opening height throughout a plan view on all openings.

You shouldn’t use this in our final dimensions on the documentation as it isn’t a standard way of representing an opening dimension.

Copy Monitor Changing Level Names

If you are using the Copy Monitor tool with your Levels, and you need to rename the Levels in your Host file. This is usually to keep a consistent naming convention across the entire project.

As soon as you try and rename you host level you will get this error message dialogue box.

Revit doesn’t realise that you are just trying to update your Level name in the host file to match the linked file and now adds a warning to the list. So you don’t get a warning just stop the monitoring of your Level line prior to renaming and then re-monitor the levels after the renaming process.

Working in the Central

If you are accidentally working in the Central File, you will probably have somebody in your project yell out….’Hey, you are working in the Central File’, plus if you have the Worksharing Monitor running you will see you are RED.

A lot of the time this is purely by accident, so to rectify your central situation all you have to do is just use ‘Save As’ and manually create a local file in your Local File directory. Ensure that you suffix the file name with your user name. Once you have saved your local file, just Synchronise with Central and you will be back in the Black.