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RFO Co-founder iru69 recently (14 October) updated his very detailed post on video cards and Revit at: Revit Hardware : Video Graphic Cards I recommend that you read this prior to investing in a new g…
EDIT: Updated Links Note – the Enhancements List shows a lot of improvements to stability, so this Update comes highly recommended. Revit OneBox / RVT (for Suites) Update 2 Revit 2013 UR2 (32-bit) (ex…
Do you want to join the Revit User Experience team and you have very specific experience in construction modeling? Autodesk asked me to post the message below the bar:You are an expert in modeling for…
I previously posted a way to generate PAT files from an exported DWG file. One of the comments to that post gives a great alternative method – so unique it actually made me smile. You may have noticed…
This post was prompted by this from Darren Snook. Firstly, let’s see actual pi to a decent level of precision:3.1415926535897932384626433 Can Revit handle high precision pi calculations? As a test, le…
Sometimes, you may want to make your Revit drawings look more like hand sketches – either to make your design look somewhat less concrete than it may already be, or simply for presentation purposes. I…
The Fridays with Vico webinars are a free, educational series geared towards general contractors and owners… topics range from BIM trends, to case studies and best practices, to new concepts for the i…
Product Tutorials Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2011 Video TutorialsBIM Curriculum for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Management tutorials Autodesk and Yale University BIM Symposium As BIM…
If you have problems with your Revit Filled Region hatch patterns displaying grayscale when they should be black, its probably because Revit thinks that the lines are too close together for the scale …
Many of us were quite disturbed by the 2013 Revit Materials Editor. Aside from its usability (or lack thereof), it seems to be much slower than the 2012 Materials dialog. Until Revit 2014 comes around…