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2012

Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.

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Revit 2013 – Embedded Schedules for everyone

Revit MEP users have had access to Embedded Schedules for a while now. However, the Revit 2013 OneBox version gives everyone the ability to easily utilise Embedded Schedules. Have you used them yet? E…

2012-06-08 · Luke Johnson
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Upgrade tips when moving to Autodesk Revit 2013 on Wikihelp

Currently includes links to the following pages: Upgrading Revit 2012 (Material ) Libraries Upgrading Material Properties Materials in Upgraded Piping Projects How Pre-2013 Stairs Subcategories are Ma…

2012-06-08 · Luke Johnson
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eTransmit for Revit – archiving made easy

I actually don’t need to transmit RVT files too often (yet). However, I often want to archive a ‘snapshot’ of all the data associated with a project. eTransmit for Revit makes this possible – and rela…

2012-06-07 · Luke Johnson
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Automated Google Earth 3D building creation

Looks like the BIM (model) of the Earth is going to be built by computers, not people: Google is using a new technology to automatically generate 3D buildings from 45-degree angle aerial photography m…

2012-06-06 · Luke Johnson
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Manually created Keynote Schedules

You want to make a Keynote Schedule (or Legend) that is manually populated (you pick which Keynotes show in the Schedule). Given that your filtering options are limited, here is one way: SHORT VERSION…

2012-06-06 · Luke Johnson
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A scary but slightly funny video

RFO user revittotd has come across an interesting anomaly: Open embedded content: gibsonhh.info view full screen version via thread atThe Trouble with Tribbles……

2012-06-05 · Luke Johnson
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Free content from the Mastering Revit books

… will soon be available on their Facebook page, according to this post: In the Mastering Revit books, we’ve gotten some great people to so some great chapters and essays for us in years past and we’r…

2012-06-05 · Luke Johnson
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Ian and Aaron talk about the Cloud

Interesting Twitter exchange between Ian Keough (father of Dynamo) and Aaron Maller (Malleristic Revitation): Ian:I’m beginning to think that any BIM data stored locally is a dumb idea. Anything you w…

2012-06-04 · Luke Johnson