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In the right-click menu, select Orient to a View, Floor Plans, and then select the desired floor plan to orient to. Image from Applied Software Blog The view will automatically crop the view using the…
These steps helped me to leverage some data from a DWF file and convert it into vector data I could use in a DWG file: Open DWF in Design Review Print to PDF using CutePDF (this worked for me) Open re…
scientific investigation demands repeatability of results that can only be achieved by sharing of experimental models. A common set of building models could reduce the time required for researcher dat…
AMD has released the first true 8 core processors. Current Intel i-series chips have up to 4 cores with Hyperthreading, which displays 8 cores to the OS. However, the new AMD architecture may ultimate…
Babelfish translation of this tweet (this tweet itself is in the public domain): The Revit bony Quasar 2013 comes with more tools from integration to other disciplines like Structural MEP and, accordi…
Phil Read has also updated his LinkedIn profile:Phil Read Chief Strategy Officer at M-SIX Portland, Oregon Computer Software viaPhil Read | LinkedIn…
Jose doesn’t seem to think they are super-important: Outside of Revit there are tools for managing and finding families that are more powerful and faster than any naming convention would ever allow an…
The easiest way I have found to get the buttons back is to learn the keyboard shortcuts for each command, where upon, once used the buttons themselves seem to magically reappear in the ribbon. The key…
A while back, I asked you guys to request that the ‘Save Selection’ feature be added to Revit Architecture. Even though we all apparently made quite a bit of noise with all of our requests, the Factor…
I have been working on this theatre for the better part of two years – and now it is basically ready to be occupied by the Client. Dimond Architects are proud to have been the designers and architects…