Revit under attack
A new whitepaper by Graphisoft can be downloaded from here. Here are some quotes:“It’s a pretty mature technology and it’s resolved a lot of things and solved a lot of things along the way,” Gonzales …
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Feed your webcam into Revit?
The Building Coder has put together a very advanced post that essentially demonstrates that the Revit API can sample an external, continuously changing graphical ‘feed’, and then display this inside R…
Dimond Architects Performance Centre project featured on indesignlive website!
The Matthew Flinders Performance Centre, designed and documented by Dimond Architects, has been featured on the indesignlive website at this link. High resolution professional photographs may be viewe…
Greater control of 3D Orbit in Revit – Disable Mouse Movement on One Axis
Ever wanted to constrain your orbit to only the X or Y axis in Revit? Here is one way to do it: Download DragLock and run it In a Revit 3D view, hold down Shift, then your Left Windows Key, and then y…
Some history
There have recently been a few posts in the blogosphere about Revit and Autodesk history. I have here collected links to some of the more interesting ones, as well as links from previous posts on What…
Does Autodesk empower YOU to be greener?
Autodesk, a 3D design engineering and entertainment software specialist, is empowering green building practices in the country through its software solutions and products. via Software maker empowers …
How to edit Lookup Tables using import / export macro and Excel (MEP)
I have previously described how you can Link Excel spreadsheet data into Revit (through AutoCAD). But what if you want to semi-automate the process of editing Lookup Tables using Excel? The blog http:…
Revit Array with adjustable Group Types for Array members
This video demonstrates a peculiar workflow, in which Revit allows you to change the Type of an Array member without breaking the array. This example uses a Polar array based on a copy-to-2nd method. …
Free Plugin – Level Generator for Revit
As the plugin’s name suggests, this plugin can be used to generate multiple adjacent levels with one command. It is compatible with Revit Architecture 2012. // Download Level Generator for Revit Archi…
Octo-Copter – automatic 123D Catch photographer robot?
viaAutodesk Octo-Copter Testing – Between the Lines…