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Do you agree? Here is a more complete quote: One of the biggest practical obstacles to effective diffusion of BIM in the industry is the lack of data exchange standards and associated protocols. The I…
This is not something you are going to need to do everyday, and probably less and less as PLT files become a thing of the past. But, if you ever do need to, here are two tools that may help: guthrie C…
in a project where you want to inherit the properties panel in the “Manage” choose “a color designation schemes,” and in the “Deselect” target checkbox only “color scheme designations.” via Google Tra…
An old (2006) but insightful post by Phil Read: if Max/SketchUp/etc.understood the intent of what you were modeling, I suspect the translation to Revit would be far more rational. But this isn’t the c…
In response to my post about Using RDB Link to Tag Wall Volume, Julien Benoit has posted a few helpful comments. He also referred to his post on RFO. I previously posted about WhiteFeet tools here. Ba…
DWG import and export (free)Currently, the best way to exchange DWG/DXF with SketchUp is to use SketchUp 7.1 & the DWG/DXF import plugin for SketchUp 7.1 (Free) As of now, both SketchUp version 7.1 an…
I’ll admit it – I’m a bit excited about MeshMixer. I downloaded it today and was very pleased at how easy it is to sculpt things. A few years back, we worked on an aquarium project with another archit…
I previously posted about how to get the average RGB colour of a sample and put it into Revit. Revit Learning Club Blog today shows a nice, simple way to obtain the RGB values of any color on your scr…
Revit doesn’t let you tag Wall Volume by default, so Avisotskiy puts RDBLink to good use – he uses Microsoft Access to update a Shared Parameter with the wall Volume data, and then simply uses a tag t…
This hotfix addresses issues with meters to feet conversions indexing FARO point clouds and improves product stability when manipulating large or complex point clouds. Make sure that Update Release 2 …