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2010-08

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Select Section Box of 3D View from Project Browser

I knew that you could select the ‘camera’ element of a 3D View by right-clicking the 3D View name in the Project Browser and clicking ‘Show Camera’. However, I did not realise that you can also select…

2010-08-31 · Luke Johnson
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Encoding 64 bit Walkthrough – Codec and Solution!

Update: check out this page for the 64-bit Xvid codec I previously described the difficulty of encoding walkthroughs on 64-bit Revit with any sort of compression codec. I did provide a workaround in t…

2010-08-26 · Luke Johnson
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Comprehensive List of Revit Videos for a Project

Came across an excellent series of posts over at Revit Detail. If you go to this post, you can download quite a number of these videos for offline use.…

2010-08-25 · Luke Johnson
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DirectX Runtimes – download

As you know, support for DirectX is now an intrinsic part of Revit 3D hardware acceleration mode. If you wish to install updated DirectX runtimes, go to this link (February 2010 version). This may or …

2010-08-24 · Luke Johnson
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Become a True Master of Revit

I received my copy of Mastering Revit Architecture 2011 yesterday, and it is truly an impressive tome! I don’t know of any other book that could so fittingly bear the designation ‘Revit bible’. At 112…

2010-08-03 · Luke Johnson