Lead the Way to Revit LT and Revit 2013?
Will Autodesk release more information on Revit LT (formerly Project Spark) at the upcoming ‘Lead the Way’ event? BIMnova thinks so: It is likely that later this month for the virtual event Autodesk L…
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Two Birds – Twitter and Windows
What happened when Twitter met Windows 7?…
Revit LT is official – pricing released
To further promote the BIM approach to those who think it is too complicated and too expensive, Autodesk will launch a version of Revit LT, which will be delivered at the same time that Autocad LT for…
Download old school Adobe Acrobat with 3D powers
When Acrobat X was released, most of the powerful 3D functionality of Acrobat was removed and placed into 3rd party tools. However, you can still download trial versions of Acrobat 8 and Acrobat 9 tha…
Links to Revit Materials online
Feel free to login to http://openrevitstandards.com and add links to the page:Links to Revit Materials online | Open Revit Standards Most of you probably already know about the Links to Revit Content …
Best Material Definition Delivery method from Suppliers into Revit
In response to Andy’s musing that “I can’t help thinking though that there must be a better way of delivering Revit materials definitions to Architects,” I would like to direct attention to the method…
Mini computers – Would you like Candy or Pi ?
FXI Cotton Candy – approx $199 Quad Core ARM® Mali™-400MP Graphics Processing Unit– Quad-core ARM Mali-400MP 720p / 1080p OpenGL ES v2.0– 30M Polygons, 1.2 GPixels / s ConnectivityWifi 802.11 b/g/nBlu…
Revit API Challenge: convert In-place Families to Component Families automatically
Here is what we want – you select an in-place family and click ‘Convert to Component Family‘ on the Ribbon. Through API Wizardry, the following happens without any further user interaction: The family…
Revit users – Five Stages vs 6 Phases vs Hype Cycle
The Five Stages are actually different to the 6 Phases of a Revit User (you need to read it if you haven’t before). I think its interesting that both of these could be roughly mapped to the Gartner Hy…
Linking Specifications to Revit – Especs or NBS or ??
Interesting conversation on Twitter recently – basically Especs and NBS were mentioned as possible methods of linking specifications to Revit. What method do you use? Matt Fox @Matt_J_Fox Looking in…