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2010-10

Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.

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Introduction to Revit Programming

If you are interested in Revit Programming and the Revit API, you may be interested in the resource located below: http://download.autodesk.com/media/adn/DevTV_Introduction_to_Revit_Programming_new/ I…

2010-10-29 · Luke Johnson
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Remove Stored username and password on Windows Vista

I have been experiencing some Event 1030 errors, and the ‘Details’ tab in the Event Viewer shows the following: ErrorDescription Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. following asf To corr…

2010-10-27 · Luke Johnson
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Smoother multitasking while Rendering in Revit

Revit 2011 (Mental Ray) utilises all available CPU cores that the OS can ‘see.’ When multitasking, your PC may slow to a crawl after a render begins. You can limit the amount of CPU time that the Rend…

2010-10-26 · Luke Johnson
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Great free stuff from Steve

Steve Stafford is a pillar of the Revit community. There are some great free downloads at his site, AEC Advantage. Check out the downloads page:http://www.aecadvantage.com/links2 There is a great docu…

2010-10-20 · Luke Johnson
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Stretch instance parameter even using Weak Ref Planes

Steve’s post about ‘Weak and Strong’ is very informative. However, if you want to ‘stretch’ a family with instance parameters AND a weak ref plane, simply ‘Tab’ until you get Revit to say ‘Shape handl…

2010-10-20 · Luke Johnson
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Cuttable vs Non-cuttable families

You want to know which families are cuttable and which are not. Revit 2011 help gives the answer: Cuttable families (link):CaseworkCeilingsColumnsCurtain Wall PanelsDoorsFloorsGeneric ModelsRoofsSiteS…

2010-10-20 · Luke Johnson
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Do you want to help make Revit better?

“Do you want to get an advance peek at possible new features, or even influence future releases of the Revit application suite? Join the Revit Architecture, MEP, and Structure designers for ongoing us…

2010-10-19 · Luke Johnson
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Running a Small Business Server with Exchange?

Then you should download and run these free tools: Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer tool Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer…

2010-10-15 · Luke Johnson
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Keep Your Computer Active Sans Software With A Watch

If you have an analogue watch and a laser mouse, you can easily keep your computer “active” by setting the mouse on top of the watch, no software or computer tweaking necessary. Keep Your Computer Act…

2010-10-13 · Luke Johnson