Live Renderings with Project Pandora
Technology Preview of the the Project Pandora Liveview design review tool, a cloud rendering research collaboration from Autodesk & Nvidia.This video demonstrates how the Project Pandora Liveview coll…
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VEO and / vs Interviews3D Composer Suite
VEO News has found a connection between VEO and Interviews3D Composer Suite. Some of the features of Interviews3D Composer Suite in bullet points (emphasis added): interactively simulate and explore e…
The Revit Mind and What Revit Wants
6,000 of us graduating while there are still 20,000 more experienced architects looking for jobs too?!… what do we have that those 20,000 architects do not? The Revit Mind. The Revit Mind does not sim…
Program Install and Uninstall Troubleshooter Tool (Fix it portable)
Some of you have had problems installing Revit. Perhaps running the Program Install and Uninstall Troubleshooter via Microsoft Fix it portable will help? I recommend using the following link. After do…
How to assign a parameter to a painted surface in a family
Here is how you can assign a material parameter to a painted surface in a family: Go to Family Types dialog box Add – Material Parameter Paint Choose the material that you made – it will have the suff…
Free graphical PDF table of special symbols and characters
I received a comment on my previous post to a Revit Forum page that links to a nice PDF you can download and stick on your wall – it shows the Unicode values for most of the special characters that yo…
Modeling a building will be just like playing a game
There has been a lot of talk recently about real time rendering, about using game engines as visualization tools on BIM platforms, and generally about making an awesome 3D development environment that…
Top 7 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Expect too much from Revit
Actually, there is only one main reason. Biased and overly optimistic blog posts and marketing dogma do not really benefit long-term Revit adoption. They often lead to inflated expectations. These bal…
Revit Makes You Happy
Well, it can make you happy. A lot of it depends on your attitude. Nice feel-good comment on Autodesk BIM Blog quoted below: Revit also plays in your personal life a great role. Both agree, Matthias S…
VEO News Blog and Twitter feed launched today
There has been a lot of talk recently about BIM, VEO, M-SIX, Phil Read and Project Sauron. What does this all have to do with Revit? I guess time will tell… Want to keep up to date? Then follow the li…