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2012

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Using Note Blocks for Numbered Notes

I recently posted a method of twisting Keynote Legends around to do exactly what you want. However, maybe using Note Blocks with numbered notes would better suit your documentation process? Read more …

2012-06-25 · Luke Johnson
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Updated open source IFC exporter for Revit 2013

Link:IFC Exporter for Revit – at SourceForge.net 2013 UI – This contains the IFC alternate Exporter UI for Revit installer compatible with the Revit 2013 series of products. There is no Revit 2012 ver…

2012-06-21 · Luke Johnson
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Free People and Tree images to add to your Revit renders

EDIT: The free content at vyonyx has been moved to http://www.gobotree.com/ Are you getting tired of using the same RPC people and trees in all your Revit renders? Maybe you should try adding some of …

2012-06-21 · Luke Johnson
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Graphic Flowchart – new Stair Families in Revit 2013

I spotted this cool graphic a while ago on Revitez, but it was in French. Ben Malone has gone to the trouble of translating it into English for us – thanks mate! via BIMopedia Online Original post (Fr…

2012-06-21 · Luke Johnson
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Quickly select Invisible Line Style using the Keyboard

Sometimes you may have to deal with a very long list of Line Styles in Revit. Unfortunately, there is no ‘Recently Used’ list in Line Styles! The keyboard can be used to scroll in the Line Style selec…

2012-06-20 · Luke Johnson
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The future – Inferred Building Modelling?

Is the future of BIM to become IBM? BIM is not just about creating more detailed and accurate models; it can bring about a lot more intelligence into the design process, where it is not necessary to p…

2012-06-20 · Luke Johnson
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RevitAddinWizard Build 0.9.2.1 released

Download RevitAddinWizard/RevitAddinCoder/RevitAddinWidget More API wizards at http://spiderinnet.typepad.com/blog/2011/05/revit-addin-wizardscoders-and-revit-api-widgets.html via RevitAddinWizard Bui…

2012-06-18 · Luke Johnson