How to remove recent files on your Revit start-up page

Hello everyone. I trust you are well and allow me to say thank you for visiting my website blog section in advance.

Today I’m gonna look at resetting my Revit startup page to default settings; by removing all recent files list.

I am sure most of you are aware of this, so I wrote this topic as my personal note on how to do this and for me to avoid searching at Google should I forget how to do this.

This method must be done especially if you will be running a presentation outside the company and you don’t want to show the projects you are working on.

Here is what you’ll see when you have recent files shown (I intentionally have overwritten the images and file names):

Now, here are the steps that we need to do:

First, locate the Revit.ini file which you can find here: C:Users\(Your Local User Name>AppData>Roaming>Autodesk>Revit>Autodesk Revit (choose whichever version you are using)>Revit.ini.

Open the Revit.ini file by double clicking or right click the Revit.ini file to open the file in text editor or Notepad.

Then scroll down until you find the word: [Recent File List]

Underneath that text, you will find a list of all the recent files that have recently been opened by Revit. Delete the text for those recent files. Make sure to leave the [Recent File List] line in the text file. See image below for a sample.

Save the file and open up Revit. You’ll see the welcome page sets to default one as if you’ve just newly installed the software.

WARNING: Make sure that the only text you delete in the Revit.ini file is those lines specifically mentioned above, otherwise, deleting other text from the Revit.ini file can cause mayhem on the Revit UI which potentially requires you to reinstall the software.

I welcome your comments, questions, corrections and additional information relating to this article. If you know a better way, please leave your comment, by all means, let me know.

Have a blessed day.

Cheers,

Allan Cantos, EngTech MICE

BSc. Civil Engineering / Principal Structural Technician

BILT EUR 2018 Laboratory Session 2.2: Structural Data Mining Using Revit-Dynamo-Power BI Workflow

In less than a month will begin the BILT EUR 2018 which will be held at GR – Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia from October 11-13.

In my previous BILT appearances this year, BILT Asia 2018 and BILT ANZ 2018, my presentation focused on live demonstration; explaining how the workflow works from start to finish. Fortunately, I did not experience any technical issues and the live demonstration went very well.

This time, on my last appearance this year at BILT community as a speaker, I made a change in the way I’ll deliver my topic. Why not come to my laboratory session? I want you all to experience, right there and then, how this workflow works. It’s pretty simple and it is open to any level. If you happen to be an expert and would like to comment or provide additional information in improving the workflow, I am more than happy and will appreciate it much if you could come to me after the laboratory session to have a little knowledge sharing session. We will all learn from each other. Please don’t come to me on the third day as I’ll not be around. I have to fly back to London on Saturday morning and so unfortunate to miss the after event big party, but that’s fine.

For more details on how to purchase a ticket, please visit BILT EUR 2018 website.

By the way, you can avail of 10%  discount off the 3 Day Delegate rate (excluding accommodation) by clicking https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=294058&discountcode=ALLSCAN12

Code to use will be ALLSCAN12

So, here is my session:

And here’s the agenda for the session:

First, I’ll demonstrate the process of preparing the data you need using Revit schedules. I bet this part is the easiest one for all of you. Nothing is so much excitement about this.

Next, since Power BI works smoothly with Microsoft Excel, We’ll use Excel to store our data-mined information from Revit.

After that, we’ll create a simple Dynamo graph to automate the process of sending the information from Revit to the spreadsheet. Thus, eradicating potential human error caused by copy and pasting or manual typing.

And finally, we’ll bring the data to life using Power BI. You’ll all learn a basic understanding of how to build your Power BI project.

I hope to see you all in my session.

Once again, here are the details:

Date: Friday, October 12, 2018

Laboratory Session: 2.2

Presentation Topic: Structural Data Mining Using Revit-Dynamo-Power BI Workflow

Presentation Time: 11:00am – 12:15pm

Duration: 75 Minute laboratory session (including question time)

Categories/ Level: Structure, Data Management, Autodesk Revit | All Levels

I am very excited now to deliver the presentation with you and if in case you’ve found the presentation to be helpful, why not share my blog across social networks?

If you weren’t able to attend the BILT Conference, you can get a copy of the tutorial that I spent time writing by visiting the link below:

Revit-Dynamo-Power BI Workflow ebook

For the complete BILT EUR 2018 program, please visit: http://www.rtcevents.com/bilt/eur18/schedule/

Cheers,

Allan Cantos, EngTech MICE

BSc. Civil Engineering / Principal Structural Technician

Learn Python Programming (2018) on Udemy – Completed

Hello everyone. As a continuation of my previous post HERE, I would like to announce that I have completed my course.

Allow me to list down with you what I have learned in this free Python Programming course on Udemy just in case you are interested in knowing some of them; or all of them.

  1. What is the correct way to add a comment in Python?
  2. What is the correct way to set variable, say, ‘s’ equal to the string, say, “Hello World!”?
  3. What type of variable is a True or False?
  4. What type of variable is, say, 100.45?
  5. Arithmetic and Concatenation
  6. Data Structures
  7. Control Flow
  8. String and List Methods
  9. Typecasting and Escape Sequences
  10. Getting User Input
  11. Functions
  12. Importing Modules
  13. And finally, how to make a GitHub Repository

In order for me to remember all of this, I need to keep reviewing my notes from time to time or find a way to apply this in my current field of work.

For those who want to learn Python Programming, I highly recommend this course for you. The course itself is just an hour long but since I made some notes and did some readings, it took me 4 hours to complete the course (2 hours for each separate dates).

Once again, here is the link for the course: Learn Python Programming Course

Have a great day.

Cheers,

Allan Cantos EngTech MICE

BSc Civil Engineering / Principal Structural Technician

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