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Check out this cool post. Thanks to Marcello and Jay Zallan for this workflow: One of the questions was how to correctly model a twisting element The breakthrough: Circles.“Let things ride on the rail…
If all of the various Autodesk energy analysis tools are starting to overwhelm you, check out this overview PDF whitepaper from Conceptual Energy Analysis & CFD Overview – The Sustainable Design Toolb…
At RTC Australia this year, Revit Legend Phil Read spoke to some of us (in quite a mysterious and tantalizing way) about a new project he was working on…and it looks like this may be it: M-SIX is buil…
See image and link below (from Autodesk Support): viaAutodesk – Autodesk Revit Architecture Services & Support – How to prepare your system before installing Autodesk software…
In previous versions of Revit, you could ‘re-paint’ surfaces using the By Category material. However, this is not available in Revit 2012. Instead, you need to use the drop-down arrow associated with …
Rondo is a company involved in the manufacture and supply of a wide range of lighter gauge roll formed steel products and systems, primarily for the construction industry in Australia, New Zealand, As…
This happened to me recently on a very big workshared project. Turning off the Crop of the view made the links reappear, but when I zoomed in, they disappeared again! The solution? Turn off the Far Cl…
“Autodesk sees joining forces with Gehry Technologies’ consultancy services as a powerful way to help AEC firms transition to a BIM process,” said Jay Bhatt, senior vice president, Architecture, Engin…
Today is the 21 October 2011, exactly 3 years after I started publishing this blog. I want to thank you all for following me and for offering some great comments over the past few years. I thought you…
Some objects in Revit are very difficult to mask over. However, sometimes you just really need that quick method of masking something to save yourself hours of work. Here is how you do it: Go to the S…