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2011

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Engineering giant GHD adopts Autodesk's BIM offering

A $5 MILLION deal with Autodesk will underpin the growth plans of Australia’s GHD, one of the world’s largest engineering companies. Building software to slash costs: an engineering giant adopts Autod…

2011-04-19 · Luke Johnson
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Autodesk 2012 Virtual Event – What time in Australia?

Start – Thursday 21 April 2011, 1 am Finish – Thursday 21 April 2011, 7 am Converted using http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html Event name and details:The Make Your Most Amazing Ideas …

2011-04-18 · Luke Johnson
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Distributed Parallel Rendering in Revit

Are your renders taking ages? Trying to output a big rendered walkthrough? No matter how fast your PC is, these things can take time. Why not enlist a few of the other computers in your office to help…

2011-04-15 · Luke Johnson
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Using Avisynth and VirtualDub to join BMP to AVI

Download Avisynth and install it. Download VirtualDub and unzip / install it. You need to have a set of BMP files with sequential numbering. Refer to this post for how to do that. In the folder contai…

2011-04-15 · Luke Johnson
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Using Advanced Renamer to create sequential numbered filenames

Download and install Advanced Renamer Open Advanced Renamer. Add – Directory and choose the folder that contains the sequential set of files. Add method. Choose ‘New Name’ from the dropdown list. In t…

2011-04-15 · Luke Johnson
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File Locations in Revit 2012

Citrix readiness has resulted in a few file locations being changed in Revit 2012 products. Journal file locationsFor 2012 products: Windows XP: %USERPROFILE%Local SettingsApplication DataAutodeskRevi…

2011-04-14 · Luke Johnson
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Top Revit Blogs, Technorati Style

The Revit blogosphere is a fun place to inhabit: What Revit Wants – Authority 392 Revit OpEd – Authority 389 Revit3D.com – Authority 96 Everything changes pretty quickly though, so I’m sure these rank…

2011-04-14 · Luke Johnson
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Revit Command Prompt

What happens behind the scenes in Revit? The Revit Command Prompt utility developed by Jose Guia can help you learn. Here is a direct link to the addon:http://blog.bimkicks.com/file.axd?file=2011%2f3%…

2011-04-13 · Luke Johnson
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The advantages in not being a reseller…

Not being bound by certain restrictions, I was able to post download links for Revit 2012 products over 5 days before they became ‘official’. April 7 4:42 pm (my post) April 13 2011 2:35 am (other pos…

2011-04-13 · Luke Johnson