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2012

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Collaborative BIM Series Webinars

I have been viewing some of the webcasts from the Collaborative BIM Series. Here is a list of those currently available on demand: I found this diagram from session 3 (BIM – Compatibility & Collaborat…

2012-09-21 · Luke Johnson
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Free auto-zoom add-in

Thanks to Phil Read for sharing a nice little free add-in that basically Zooms to the selected object. It is called ZoomToAwesome. Download installer from:https://www.dropbox.com/s/hsr3bsmc7hbq468/ZtA…

2012-09-21 · Luke Johnson
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Free handout downloads from LARUG – September 2012

September | 2012 | Handout Links1) LARUG Presents_Jay B Zallan_Bootlegging Keynotes for Good not Evil II.pdf1a) 2013 JBZ_LARUG_Custom _Keynotes.txt2) LARUG Presents_Troy R Gates_Formula Driven Familie…

2012-09-21 · Luke Johnson
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Three Ways to go from Grasshopper to Revit

It seems that more and more people are trying to move intelligent data from Grasshopper to Revit. There are at least 3 different ways to do this: Chameleon Hummingbird (also Project Hummingbird) … and…

2012-09-20 · Luke Johnson
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Sandbox style Revit tips

A whole bunch of tips can be viewed at: Revit Chander – WikiHelp(its a long page – keep scrolling) You could also check out this PDF file:http://davidddriver.com/Product/Freebies/Revit/Revit%20keyboar…

2012-09-20 · Luke Johnson
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Autodesk vs M-SIX VEO – It has begun

The inevitable clash between Autodesk and M-SIX is beginning to surface on Twitter. Let’s have a look at a few recent ‘conversations’: Firstly, we now measure the success of BIM in degrees: I could ge…

2012-09-19 · Luke Johnson
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Access to video libraries from top Revit users

Steve Stafford and Aaron Maller are both awesome Revit guys. Both of them have a Screencast library of videos that you can freely view. Here are the links: RevitOpEd’s library aaronmaller’s library Yo…

2012-09-19 · Luke Johnson
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Grasshopper to Vasari via IFC – yes, you can

Geometry Gym has released an IFC importer for Vasari Beta – links below: ggRevitIFC2013x64 v0.0.37.msi (13th September 2012) REVIT 2013 ggRevitIFC2012x64 v0.0.37.msi (13th September 2012) REVIT 2012 g…

2012-09-19 · Luke Johnson
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Using the Anchor with EQ dimensions

In a multi-segmented, equality constrained dimension, you can use the anchor symbol to designate the anchored element. The element that is anchored remains stationary while you move other elements in …

2012-09-19 · Luke Johnson
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Using Autodesk Cloud as an auto-Syncing online file store

Did you know that you have an offline copy of your Autodesk 360 Cloud data? It lives here: C:UsersUSERNAMEAppDataLocalAutodeskAutodesk SyncCloudCLOUDUSERNAME If you put a file in this folder, it will …

2012-09-18 · Luke Johnson