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2012

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Revit 2013 Update 2 download links

EDIT: Updated Links Note – the Enhancements List shows a lot of improvements to stability, so this Update comes highly recommended. Revit OneBox / RVT (for Suites) Update 2 Revit 2013 UR2 (32-bit) (ex…

2012-10-17 · Luke Johnson
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A message from Autodesk

Do you want to join the Revit User Experience team and you have very specific experience in construction modeling? Autodesk asked me to post the message below the bar:You are an expert in modeling for…

2012-10-16 · Luke Johnson
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A really small piece of Revit pi

This post was prompted by this from Darren Snook. Firstly, let’s see actual pi to a decent level of precision:3.1415926535897932384626433 Can Revit handle high precision pi calculations? As a test, le…

2012-10-12 · Luke Johnson
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Turn Revit drawings into hand sketches

Sometimes, you may want to make your Revit drawings look more like hand sketches – either to make your design look somewhat less concrete than it may already be, or simply for presentation purposes. I…

2012-10-12 · Luke Johnson
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Vico BIM Webinars for free viewing

The Fridays with Vico webinars are a free, educational series geared towards general contractors and owners… topics range from BIM trends, to case studies and best practices, to new concepts for the i…

2012-10-11 · Luke Johnson
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BIM Videos – via Autodesk BIM Curriculum

Product Tutorials Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2011 Video TutorialsBIM Curriculum for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Management tutorials Autodesk and Yale University BIM Symposium As BIM…

2012-10-10 · Luke Johnson
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Revit is too smart for your dense hatch patterns

If you have problems with your Revit Filled Region hatch patterns displaying grayscale when they should be black, its probably because Revit thinks that the lines are too close together for the scale …

2012-10-09 · Luke Johnson
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Speeding up the Revit 2013 Materials Editor

Many of us were quite disturbed by the 2013 Revit Materials Editor. Aside from its usability (or lack thereof), it seems to be much slower than the 2012 Materials dialog. Until Revit 2014 comes around…

2012-10-08 · Luke Johnson
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18000 free families from familit – Revit Family Library

While familit do have a browser / content manager add-in, this is a paid product (if you are looking for free family browser, check out tools4revit). However, the family content itself at familit is f…

2012-10-08 · Luke Johnson