4 Revit View Add-ins you cannot do without
COINS Auto Section Box (download) QuickViewAccess2013 (2013 download) (2012 download) ZoomToAwesome (download) Palladio X BIM – WindowsLayout (download) Ok, its not a view addin, but – set a keyboard …
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How to Save all 3ds Max resources (images, FBX links etc) for a given file
File – Save As – Archive This will make ZIP with all the resources. If you want to view them all in one folder, use 7-Zip, Extract Files… with no pathnames (this will put all the files in one folder) …
Free 3D PDF from Revit STL using Meshlab, MiKTeX and U3D-2-PDF
The two step process is: Export STL from Revit Use U3D-2-PDF to turn the STL into a 3D PDF (a one click process). This is the fourth free method I have posted on how to make 3D PDFs from Revit (go to …
FormIt to Revit via 360
Starting today, each new FormIt file you create (or old one you edit) will be converted to a RVT file – in addition to the SAT file you currently get. Of course, this all requires that you use your fr…
Top Tips and Tricks PDF for Revit 2013 from AU2012
Top-11-Tips-Tricks-Revit-2013.pdf (application/pdf Object) Here’s a taste:3. Need a slope annotation on your ramp in a plan view? It can’t be done without this trick!Why won’t it work? Okay, I’ll chec…
Some simple yet very cool API and Macro tips
You may have already heard about Boost Your BIM – a new and quite prolific programming (API and macro) blog for Revit by Harry Mattison. If his recent posts are anything to go by, this blog should be …
Beware the P2P service orbitnet.exe (P2P service of Orbit Downloader)
Orbit Downloader recently brought our LAN to a halt. Where we should have been getting 2.2 mbps, we were getting 0.15 mbps. I eventually performed an isolation test along with some bandwidth tests. As…
Rattling the Act-gsac-use nest over linked libraries
It wouldn’t be a BIM blog post without inventing some obscure, never-to-be-used again abbreviation would it? In this case, actGSACuse stands for ‘active Graphisoft ArchiCAD users‘. I tweeted this imag…
AU2012 – the year AU became a twitterfest
Here it is – my little collection of AU2012 goodies. Images, videos, cool quotes (and don’t forget the tweets!) – everything from the last couple of weeks that I thought was worth posting is here. Enj…
How to determine if a Family is In-Place or not
Here is an easy way: Install Case Add-in Manager Using the Add-in Manager, install Batch Export Family RFA’s tool (I am running v2012.11.13.0) Open a Revit project and run the tool After families have…