tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36144278861903195982024-03-06T12:58:45.226+13:00Revit Family BrowserAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-49508588035690593662014-07-26T09:46:00.001+12:002014-07-26T09:46:46.783+12:00Revit 2014 Update 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There is a known issue with Autodesk Revit 2014 Update #3 and API apps using Dockable Panes, which effects Family Browser 2014. If you install this update and have Family Browser installed (or any other API that has a dockable form), Revit will fatal error when you close a Family or Project Document.<br />
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Autodesk is now aware of the issue and are working on a fix and update. We will let you know as soon as that is available.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-7334608213947386652014-06-20T13:53:00.002+12:002014-06-20T13:53:37.456+12:00Easy Keynoter – The next generation of Keynote editor for Revit 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<li style="list-style: decimal outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">All Keynote data stored within a Database. No reliance on Revit reading txt files or the need to have intermediary xml files. This means that there are no issues of multiple users editing the keynotes at the same time as with other systems.</li>
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<li style="list-style: decimal outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Super fast search function. Easy keynoter will display all search compliant keynotes in seconds. We have tested this on a keynote file with over 20,000 keynotes and the results displayed within 1 second.</li>
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">The Family Browser Labs Project is a testing platform for new features and idea concepts for our full Family Browser product. It allows independent modular testing of ideas outside of the commercial Family Browser product without affecting its source code.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-45904090283133667842013-09-10T08:36:00.001+12:002013-09-10T08:36:17.536+12:00FB 2014 - No Active View ErrorIf you have updated to our latest version of Family Browser for Revit 2014 and have chosen to display it in the new docked mode and you receive the below error when you drag and drop a family onto the Revit drawing there is a good reason for this.<br />
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There was a bug in the RTM version of the Revit 2014 API that disallowed drag and drop from a docked panel, but thankfully this was resolved in Revit Update 1. You need to be running at least the below version of Revit to run Family Browser in the docked state.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-23302457485883121992013-09-05T10:41:00.000+12:002013-09-05T10:41:52.706+12:00Project Browser 2014 - NewsFor those using our Project Browser you don't have long to wait now before a new build that is Dockable to the Revit UI like Family Browser now is. Keep an eye out here for news in the next few days.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-46082965980331253272013-09-03T09:58:00.000+12:002013-09-03T09:58:00.003+12:00FB 2014 - Inserting Hosted Families Fix.Have you noticed before in Family Browser 2014, that when you insert a family from Family Browser that is Hosted ie, workplane/facebased that the icons to change host on insertion are disabled as shown below?<br />
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It turns out that because of the changes required in the Revit 2014 API with the way we interact with the Revit database from modal dialogues, the buttons become disabled. After going back and forth with Autodesk support it was found that there is actually a limitation in the API to support this.<br />
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This is a major issue for a majority of our customers so after some testing I have found an unsupported way around this issue, until Autodesk includes this functionality in the API. So now when you insert a hosted family from FB 2014 you will get the icons available as per below. This is available in the current download of FB 2014 from our webpage - <a href="http://www.kiwicodes.com/content/19-members-downloads" target="_blank">Downloads</a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-86990154205955880562013-09-02T12:49:00.000+12:002013-09-02T12:49:17.179+12:00Family Browser now fully Integrated into Autodesk Revit 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are very proud to announce that from today Family Browser is now fully integrated into Autodesk Revit 2014 software.<br />
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Users now have the ability to run Family Browser in "Classic Mode", as per the existing Family Browser floating mode, or have it docked within the Autodesk Revit user interface.<br />
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Running Family Browser in the docked state integrates Family Browser seamlessly into the UI, which can then be docked left,right, top, bottom and as a tabbed item along with the Project Browser etc.<br />
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Family Browser will start-up automatically on Revit start and remember the previous position and state it was in.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-77599221951505432572013-06-20T15:33:00.002+12:002013-06-20T15:35:58.344+12:00New Builds of Family Browser ReleasedYesterday we uploaded to our web site new builds of Family Browser 2013 & 2014. These new builds addressed mainly feedback that we received during the RTC Conference in Auckland last month.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-62435467443775720952013-05-26T17:56:00.001+12:002013-05-26T17:56:53.108+12:00RTC AUS Wrap Up.<div class="MsoNormal">
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has had a very successful time exhibiting at RTC AUS at the “Langman Hotel” in Auckland
New Zealand , 16th to the 18th May. </span></div>
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great to catch up with allot of our existing Australasian clients and get their
feedback on how they are using our time saving Revit tools and also hearing
their fantastic suggestions for future enhancements to our existing tools and
also new ideas for other tools. It was
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great if Family Browser showed the currently loaded families in the current
project as a separate group like what KC Project Browser does.</li>
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buy all of your products at once as a suite package?</li>
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11th – 14th July 2013. North America is
our biggest customer base and we are really excited to meet face to face our
existing customers. If you are there
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-74719066243414597942013-03-05T22:46:00.001+13:002013-03-05T22:46:54.530+13:00HOK implement Kiwi Codes Solutions firm wide.<br />
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pleased to announce the strategic partnership between Kiwi Codes Solutions and
the leading design, architecture, engineering and planning firm, HOK. HOK have this week announced a global roll-out of Project Browser and Family Browser throughout their firm.</span><br />
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limited success. Kiwicodes’ simple and elegant approach proved to be the
most flexible and powerful compared to other tools. ” - Greg Schleusner
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Family Browser successfully at another practice and KiwiCodes have always been
very responsive to our feedback. This factor alone was very important to HOK
because we like to fine-tune everything to suit our needs. Couple this with the
tool’s beautiful simplicity, and the decision was quite clear.” – David
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alliance, Kiwi Codes will gain valuable insight into the complexities of
Project and Family management across a global firm, while HOK gain instant
productivity gains through Project and Family Management, like no other Revit
Addin on the market does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Browsers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-78364002551723052142013-02-22T10:29:00.000+13:002013-02-22T10:29:17.945+13:00Sheet Counter 2013 - Video Tutorial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Over the last few weeks there has been a bit of a rush on our Sheet Counter product which has been fantastic.<br />
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Because of this I thought it would be timely to do up a tutorial video on how it actually works.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-25552940225031539522013-01-25T15:52:00.001+13:002013-01-25T17:20:12.151+13:00Independent Review of Family BrowserDon't just take our word for it. Family Browser <b>IS FANTASTIC</b> and saves you a ton of time.<br />
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Adam Simmons from Gensler reviewed Family Browser at the latest Autodesk University 2012 in Las Vegas recently and below is the screen cast from his presentation regarding Family Browser.<br />
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Thank you Adam for taking the time to try and review Family Browser.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-33849521491270030422012-11-06T09:30:00.003+13:002012-11-06T09:30:34.852+13:00Family Browser Advanced SearchA few weeks ago we updated both Family Browser and Project Browser with an
advanced search function that can search by family Name, Family Type, Parameter
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-85672975948252534652012-11-01T18:24:00.001+13:002012-11-01T18:26:00.880+13:00Project Browser - Views on sheets<br />
Recently Steve Stafford of <a href="http://revitoped.blogspot.co.nz/2012/10/not-on-sheets.html">Revit OpEd</a> and James Herndon from <a href="http://www.therevitblog.com/2012/10/estranged-views.html">TheRevitBlog</a> has just recently blogged about different ways to show graphically views which are placed on sheets in the Revit Project Browser.<br />
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While these ways are a valid way of <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">achieving</span> that task we believe that with Kiwi Codes Project Browser we have a much more elegant and visual way of <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">achieving</span> this.<br />
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This YouTube video shows just how easy it is in KC Project Browser.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-91052451839565131672012-10-18T15:49:00.001+13:002012-10-18T15:49:31.927+13:00New Installers - Silent Parameter changes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You may have noticed in the latest build of our products that we are now
using flash new installer software. <br />
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We have done this to be more Windows
compliant and certainly helps with the Family/Project Browser deployment and uninstall
etc.<br />
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One side effect that this has caused is the new Parameter values required to
install our Apps Silently. Instead of the "/s" switch this has now
changed to "/qn ALLUSERS=1" for example you would run "FamilyBrowser-1-10-15-1.exe
/qn ALLUSERS=1" from DOS or a VB script at user login to install Family Browser
silently for all users.<br />
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<a href="http://www.kiwicodes.com/contact-us">Email</a> us if you have any questions regarding this.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-66699650945572927712012-10-15T16:09:00.000+13:002012-10-15T16:09:03.304+13:00Kiwi Codes - Sheet Counter Released<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At last we have released an installer for Sheet Counter 2013 to our products page <a href="http://www.kiwicodes.com/products/24-sheet-counter.html">http://www.kiwicodes.com/products/24-sheet-counter.html</a><br />
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Sheet Counter is a simple automatic sheet counter for Revit 2013 which counts how many sheets are in the project and numbers the sheets ie sheet 23 of 97.<br />
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You can remove, exclude or add sheets and Sheet Counter will automatically renumber the sheets for you.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-21539805251765103712012-10-12T11:51:00.001+13:002012-10-12T11:51:57.735+13:00Family/Project Browser gets Advanced SearchWe are very pleased to announce that new builds are now available for download from our website that includes a brand new "Advanced Search" engine. The existing quick family name search remains but now we are able to search by any combination of:<br />
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<li>Family Category</li>
<li>Family Name</li>
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The most fantastic part about the search is the real-time instant updates of complying families, shown graphically within the search tab.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-89565298443866508962012-09-14T17:23:00.000+12:002012-09-14T17:23:12.168+12:00Existing Customers - Looking for testersHi all.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIOgRgLdOO0wyMY-fYYJCkckwbhVfHK-xmhc9p87yIzAPTzYGCYbMdMmF-tBvAYHJJcE7koGQoYxCzWUqlKwbffhAibbx_Uh6bbZCoyBydx92BlCyq4-C7Kkgye0dC2HLe8zVrLbKim8s/s1600/beta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIOgRgLdOO0wyMY-fYYJCkckwbhVfHK-xmhc9p87yIzAPTzYGCYbMdMmF-tBvAYHJJcE7koGQoYxCzWUqlKwbffhAibbx_Uh6bbZCoyBydx92BlCyq4-C7Kkgye0dC2HLe8zVrLbKim8s/s1600/beta.jpg" /></a>We are looking for some existing customers of Family Browser or Project Browser to test a new feature next week.<br />
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If you are keen to kick some tyres and provide a little bit of feedback email me and I will let you know how to get the latest build.<br />
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Cheers<br />
PhillipAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-58565746196598322572012-09-03T08:59:00.002+12:002012-09-03T09:03:27.410+12:00Project Browser Spring Special<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtdIWsy4ikrLiEGXs-5vUj4mdkh9q4jbWoZCcut6lSlO_IsHxmm0EejhOsF86Xc3xi2SYDKxuwQReyAb4loli7z8hfELKEe8MqY2gUNnxGlcv-dilfnZ-JFeMd0NRhIWM3A_V-eLmd5s/s1600/lamb-267x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtdIWsy4ikrLiEGXs-5vUj4mdkh9q4jbWoZCcut6lSlO_IsHxmm0EejhOsF86Xc3xi2SYDKxuwQReyAb4loli7z8hfELKEe8MqY2gUNnxGlcv-dilfnZ-JFeMd0NRhIWM3A_V-eLmd5s/s200/lamb-267x300.jpg" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" width="178" /></a>Well at last the days are beginning to lengthen out and warm up in the southern hemisphere.<br />
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As a special to celebrate the arrival of Spring here in the southern hemisphere we offering a 20% discount of Project Browser for orders under 10 licenses, and 25% on orders over 10. This special runs until the 14th September 2012. <a href="http://www.kiwicodes.com/specials/16-project-browser.html">http://www.kiwicodes.com/specials/16-project-browser.html</a><br />
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So if you have been sitting on the fence or just upgraded your Revit version to 2013, make sure you don't miss out on the fantastic limited time deal. <br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-380829169584577812012-07-13T11:52:00.000+12:002012-07-13T11:52:22.923+12:00Family Browser - Most Recent FamiliesAnother Enhancement/New Feature that has just been added to Family/Project
Browser is a new "Recently Used Families" expander bar at the bottom
of Family Browser above the search bar.<br />
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This expander replaces Revit Component Type Selector which also lists the
most recently used families, but in a more convenient location.<br />
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Thanks Dave Baldacchino <a href="http://do-u-revit.blogspot.com/">do-u-revit.blogspot.com</a> for this suggested feature.<br />
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especially when creating tabs for Detail components that there ends up with allot
of tabs. Even with careful organization of Groups this can still happen.<br />
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It has been suggested if we could have sub tabs within tabs to try and get
another level of organization and flexibility in Family Browser.<br />
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Well your wishes have now come true in Family Browser 2013 with the ability
to add sub folders to tabs. These are totally user customizable to as many
levels deep that you require. They can also be cross referenced in more than
one tab.<br />
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Check out this video below that explains how this is done.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-17908855063529580412012-07-05T13:06:00.002+12:002012-07-05T13:06:17.519+12:00Sometimes it's the little things that count.<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We receive allot of feedback from our customers with
features that they would like to see and enhancements to both Project Browser
and Family Browser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes these
ideas are a simple thing for us to include.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Two of these requests have been added to the latest download of Project
Browser.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pin/Unpin Graphic - We have always been able to
pin open or unpin FB & PB by double clicking on the spine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has not been obvious to all so we have
included a Pin icon for this.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There have been a few requests to be able to
reorder tabs within Project Browser, especially to get Family Tab which
launches Family Browser down to the bottom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can now reorder the common tabs within Project Browser to whatever
order you like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this stage you cannot
custom order Query tabs.</span></div>
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Kiwi Codes Family Browser has a feature article by one of our medium sized firms, BECK Group (<a href="http://www.beckgroup.com/">http://www.beckgroup.com</a>) out of the USA in the latest AUGI World Magazine. Thank you Aaron Maller for the wonderful article on how you have implemented Family Browser through out your company (5 sites) and the huge benefits that you are gaining from using Family Browser.<br />
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<a href="http://www.augi.com/images/uploads/augiworld_issues/AW201206Lr.pdf">http://www.augi.com/images/uploads/augiworld_issues/AW201206Lr.pdf</a><br />
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Check out page number 38 for the article by Aaron.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-84296446024577263102012-06-26T20:07:00.002+12:002012-06-26T20:07:50.705+12:00Element Renumber for Revit 2013 Now Released<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Well the wait is finally over for those of you waiting for Element Renumber. I have now rebuilt it so it is now compatible with Revit 2013. The trial download can be found on our new web page <a href="http://www.kiwicodes.com/products/22-element-renumber.html">HERE</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510996445967865314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614427886190319598.post-88866311544710320852012-06-24T08:35:00.002+12:002012-06-24T08:35:20.891+12:00Creating Family Type IconsOver the past we year we have had a few enquiries about how to add icons to family types within Family Browser. This is most commonly asked when a family has totally different geometry per type within the family. Revit can’t do it and we can’t generate an image from the API for this. There has been a recent discussion over at RFO - <a href="http://www.revitforum.org/architecture-general-revit-questions/8932-icon-all-family-types.html" target="_blank">Link Here</a>, discussing this very topic.<div class="post-title">
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<span>Well the good news is that within Family Browser we can now do this. You will need to download the currunt release of Family Browser/Project Browser from our <a href="http://www.kiwicodes.com/11-products">products page</a> for this to work.</span></div>
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