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Rethinking BIM is a kinda awesome new BIM site – you should definitely check it out. There are lots of videos and downloads available. Some of this stuff looks like it has been collected or derived fr…
Sometimes you want to save some Revit elements for later – like throwing them in the cupboard until you need them. Here are five ways to do that: Group, then Link, then Unload the Link (you can copy /…
EDIT For some reason the original video is not working. It was also referenced on Wikihelp here, and that embedded version is broken too. I tried to contact Youtube user cwm9 but did not get a reply. …
You can’t make a schedule of Levels in Revit. I won’t get into the argument of “should you be able to” or not. The fact is, some people want to make a Level Schedule. Here I provide one workaround tha…
A new whitepaper by Graphisoft can be downloaded from here. Here are some quotes:“It’s a pretty mature technology and it’s resolved a lot of things and solved a lot of things along the way,” Gonzales …
The Building Coder has put together a very advanced post that essentially demonstrates that the Revit API can sample an external, continuously changing graphical ‘feed’, and then display this inside R…
The Matthew Flinders Performance Centre, designed and documented by Dimond Architects, has been featured on the indesignlive website at this link. High resolution professional photographs may be viewe…
Ever wanted to constrain your orbit to only the X or Y axis in Revit? Here is one way to do it: Download DragLock and run it In a Revit 3D view, hold down Shift, then your Left Windows Key, and then y…
There have recently been a few posts in the blogosphere about Revit and Autodesk history. I have here collected links to some of the more interesting ones, as well as links from previous posts on What…
Autodesk, a 3D design engineering and entertainment software specialist, is empowering green building practices in the country through its software solutions and products. via Software maker empowers …