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2012

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MeshMixer 08 released

meshmixer08 is available for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X…Windows(tested on Win7 x64) [meshmixer08 Win 32-bit] (Latest: October 26, 2012) [meshmixer08 Win 64-bit] (Latest: October 26, 2012) Ma…

2012-11-09 · Luke Johnson
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Using Divide and Repeat for Site Masterplanning

You will find below a visual diary of some site master planning options – the Divide and Repeat tool was used to layout out the units. Here is a very concise how-to: Make a new Mass or Adaptive family…

2012-11-08 · Luke Johnson
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Revit.me – Russian Revit User Community / Forum site

In English, via Microsoft Translator:http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=http://revit.me/ In Russian (original): Revit.me | Сообщество пользователей Revit…

2012-11-06 · Luke Johnson
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From Revit to OBJ to DAZ Studio to U3D to Adobe 3D PDF

I couldn’t decide whether to call this “Yet Another Way to make a 3D PDF” or “Adobe Acrobat 11 and adding 3D objects“, so I went with a more descriptive title … here we go. Almost none of our clients …

2012-11-05 · Luke Johnson
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Railing families – November 2012

I recently downloaded the Revit (railing) files from Moddex Systems. If you want to access them, go to the following page and follow the links to register: Moddex – CAD Support(you can also go direct …

2012-11-04 · Luke Johnson
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Section Box persistence and 3D View Orientation

Twitter led me to a new technology / Revit / BIM blog at http://www.jarodschultz.com/ One recent post about Section Boxes included two great tips: In a 3D view, you can re-orient the view, adjust the …

2012-11-02 · Luke Johnson
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Project Chronicle up for download on Labs

I saw some information on this Project a while back – it looked very cool indeed. Essentially it allows you to record and replay a tutorial or workflow in extreme detail. For Autodesk products, it may…

2012-10-31 · Luke Johnson