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I am currently installing Building Design Suite Premium 2012 from the shiny USB stick we received yesterday. There are just two quick tips that I wanted to share with you: If your packaging does not h…
Two tips that I found of particular value: “…click on Graded Surface… If you don’t do this first step, you will not get Cut and Fill counts when you create Building Pads.” and “Be sure that first you …
More goodness from Jose Guia, this is an add-in“designed to allow you to easily and rapidly create multiple sheets or placeholders inside of your REVIT project.” blog.bimkicks.com | REVIT Multi-Sheet …
I previously posted about a minor error in the Options dialog box (link at end of post). After starting a case with Autodesk on this subject, I received a reply that included this statement: “The deve…
Nice trick by Darren Snook on the Revit @ Waterman blog:Revit @ Waterman: ‘Date & Time Stamp’ for Generic Annotation Families This bears some similarity to some of the workarounds I have previously po…
@davewlight David Light Wow, didn’t catch this, but don’t put #vasari exe in program folders or program data. jadamthomas J. Adam Thomas @davewlight what happened? @davewlight David Light RT @jadamtho…
At this link:Nichiha USA, Inc. – Fiber Cement Building Products.…
Misery really does love company – check out the link below: Revit Hate – 31% People Agree (58 opinions) (on 6 June 2011)…
In previous versions of Revit, a common workaround to generate some ‘depth’ in elevation views was to use transparent mass planes. This created an effect like this: Here is what was actually happening…
using the Autodesk Labs Utilities BIM Family Toolkit.By downloading both the Inventor add-in and Revit Add-in you will be able to export the family data directly from Inventor and import it into Revit…