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Until Revit comes up with some kind of advanced and granular permissions management for workshared files, we are left with a situation that requires best-practice Revit use combined with 100% obedient…
Scenario – you have a TV that only has a LAN port (not wireless), a Netbook that sits in the corner (has been replaced by a tablet), and you want to share Internet to your TV. You can use the Netbook …
Nasty little bug picked up by Jason Kunkel. Basically, you make View Template based on a Schedule View. Then, when you go to delete that original Schedule View, Revit will prompt you with a “View:View…
Its hard to find an unbiased comparison of Revit and ArchiCAD. Ranting flame wars rage continually on LinkedIn… That’s why it is refreshing to see a logical, itemised comparison of the two softwares. …
Interesting aberration that you could use to your advantage – reposted from SARUG: I had Sam override the visibility setting for the masked region and make it transparent, in the linked file, and then…
Most of you already know that VEO is very smart when it comes to document handling – for example, you can easily attach PDFs to elements in the model. You may have seen my Revit eStorage post, which a…
Sometimes, its good to take a breath and think about where Revit and BIM have led us. One case study, recently presented at SARUG by Andrew Abernathy (in slideshow form) included the following interes…
I have previously posted about MIT OpenCourseWare. There is actually a site that essentially aggregates courses from all over the web and from a number of different learning institutions, and then pro…
This one is by Dima Chiriacov, and you can download it at:02-28-2013 CropViewToSelection2013 (for Revit 2013) The key difference is that this add-in allows you to physically type in Element IDs before…
Many legal questions are getting asked in and around the BIM community. From “Who owns the model?” to “Who is responsible to track changes?”, we find ourselves in a new and somewhat scary world of leg…