Three Ways to go from Grasshopper to Revit
It seems that more and more people are trying to move intelligent data from Grasshopper to Revit. There are at least 3 different ways to do this: Chameleon Hummingbird (also Project Hummingbird) … and…
2012-09
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Sandbox style Revit tips
A whole bunch of tips can be viewed at: Revit Chander – WikiHelp(its a long page – keep scrolling) You could also check out this PDF file:http://davidddriver.com/Product/Freebies/Revit/Revit%20keyboar…
Autodesk vs M-SIX VEO – It has begun
The inevitable clash between Autodesk and M-SIX is beginning to surface on Twitter. Let’s have a look at a few recent ‘conversations’: Firstly, we now measure the success of BIM in degrees: I could ge…
Access to video libraries from top Revit users
Steve Stafford and Aaron Maller are both awesome Revit guys. Both of them have a Screencast library of videos that you can freely view. Here are the links: RevitOpEd’s library aaronmaller’s library Yo…
Grasshopper to Vasari via IFC – yes, you can
Geometry Gym has released an IFC importer for Vasari Beta – links below: ggRevitIFC2013x64 v0.0.37.msi (13th September 2012) REVIT 2013 ggRevitIFC2012x64 v0.0.37.msi (13th September 2012) REVIT 2012 g…
Using the Anchor with EQ dimensions
In a multi-segmented, equality constrained dimension, you can use the anchor symbol to designate the anchored element. The element that is anchored remains stationary while you move other elements in …
Using Autodesk Cloud as an auto-Syncing online file store
Did you know that you have an offline copy of your Autodesk 360 Cloud data? It lives here: C:UsersUSERNAMEAppDataLocalAutodeskAutodesk SyncCloudCLOUDUSERNAME If you put a file in this folder, it will …
Harvesting Hatch Patterns from Revit to PAT files
You have a Revit file with some custom hatch patterns (filled regions / fill patterns) in it. You want to turn them into PAT files for re-use in AutoCAD or some other drafting program. Here’s how: Mak…
30 free videos from Revit author and educator Paul Aubin (playlist)
Open embedded content: www.youtube.com Links via https://twitter.com/paulfaubin I just grabbed them and added them to a playlist for easy access… about 3.5 hours worth! Here are the basic video titles…
Using Listening Dimensions with Angles
Listening dimensions is the technical term for the little blue dimensions that appear as you start drawing a line in Revit. The bold entry is the one that Revit is ‘listening’ to the keyboard for. Whe…