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We know that each Revit project has a Unit setting (Manage – Project Units). This dictates the default entry units (while typing the Length of a wall, for example.) However, what if you want to enter …
In past years, the presentation materials for the Revit Technology Conference were made available for download by anyone – even if you didn’t attend! Check out the following links: RTC 2008 :: Materia…
Sometimes a post comes along that I can’t help but re-post. The BIM Troublemaker has gone to the trouble of making a handy little Generic Annotation family for Coordination, with some great formulaic …
The AutoCAD Design team is experimenting with new ways to get feedback from our users. Your suggestions help make AutoCAD (Mac & Windows) better, so let us know what would make AutoCAD easier to use, …
The company that pioneered this awesome technology has been purchased by a currently unknown party – mysterious stuff! Open embedded content: www.youtube.com viaFrom Sweden: Next-gen, NSA-like 3D Maps…
When users complain, moan, whinge about #revit, they need to find a mirror & look in it, cos more often than not, its u the user not #revit via David Light Twitter / @davewlight: When users complain, …
My main video card is a Nvidia Quadro FX 580. However, I wanted to run more than two monitors. So I borrowed a old GeForce 7300 LE and installed it into one of the other PCI-E slots on my Gigabyte EX5…
Game developer David Braben has developed a $25 PC, in a USB stick with a HDMI port on one end and a USB port on the other. The hardware inside is a 700MHz ARM11 processor with 128MB of RAM, together …
When in Edit Mode for a given Detail Group, the Spot Dimension tools are grayed out. However, if you place the Spot Dimension OUTSIDE the Detail Group, and then ‘Add’ it to the Group – Revit is quite …
Do you know much about Autodesk Vault? Watch this quick video to see how powerful it can be in searching through your Revit family library: Video via Autodesk Revit and Autodesk Vault Collaboration A…