Smartness with Object Styles
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…
2010
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Ribbon Hero – do we need this for Revit?
“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 …
Giveaway of the Day – Free Software Daily
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…
Mutually Assured Destruction – Intel vs AMD 64 bit architecture
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 …
How To Create a Revit Walkthrough and then Upload it to Youtube
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…
How to backup and transfer Outlook signatures
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…
Reduce Precision of AutoCAD file for insertion into Revit (too many decimals!)
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 am now a Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 Certified Professional
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…
Revit Associate Certification Practice Exam – link
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.…
Problems joining VPN with Windows 7?
I had a weird issue wherein I could join our office VPN using XP and Vista with no problems, but Windows 7 would not connect to the VPN and would trigger an error. (Please note that I was trying to co…