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Occasionally you may find that the Finish Sketch and Cancel Sketch buttons disappear from the Ribbon. The easiest way to get out of this situation is to map a Keyboard Shortcut for these commands. You…
Revit wants you to understand it. It wants to be logical. Sometimes you need to give Revit a bit of a hand. You may need to take a few simple steps to make Revit more understandable. David Light has s…
“Ribbon Hero currently works with Word, PowerPoint, and Excel (both 32/64 Bit) and it is only limited to Version 2007 and 2010 only. Once it is installed, there is a tiny green Ribbon Hero icon added …
There is a very cool site at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ Fully free software is made available daily. If you are interested in keeping an accurate record of time spent on projects, have a look at…
Found some very interesting information on Wikipedia about 32 bit and 64 bit processor architecture – check it out (italics by me): AMD licensed its x86-64 design to Intel, where it is marketed under …
Here is a brief how-to on creating a large, high resolution rendered Revit walkthrough (or sun study) and then subsequently compressing and uploading it to Youtube. Setup your walkthrough view. In Rev…
Found this guide at http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2008/07/11/how-do-i-back-up-my-signatures.aspx Basically, hold the ‘Ctrl’ key when clicking the ‘Signatures’ button and you will be redirected…
Let’s say you have AutoCAD file of unknown origin, and it has some wacky or imprecise units (like the distance between two walls is 8250.092234897). What you need to do is reduce the precision, such t…
I took both the Associate and Professional Exams for Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 Certification yesterday. And I passed! I now have the right to use these logos: Luke Johnson…
I found this using a Google Search: http://www.daypo.net/revit-associate-certification-practice-exam.html This is also very useful: http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/revit_2010_exam-guide_0709_en.…