Revit Rendering – Mental Ray vs Cloud Rendering vs Raytrace method
Which is best? Check out the comparison by Tod Stephens at: Tipniques: Design Visualization with Revit – Which Rendering Engine to Use? | AUGI…
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Enabling Lookup Table CSV support on non-supported Categories
The BIM Data is a new blog by Mohammed Mahboob. In a recent post, he describes using a Pipe Fittings family template and switching it to Generic Model to enable (retain) the Lookup Table CSV support. …
Point Clouds and Shared Coordinates
In a recent project, we received a DWG file and a number of point clouds, all on the same coordinate system (MGA). To setup project initially, I followed these steps: New Project Link the survey DWG b…
Have you tried the Beta Potential Energy Savings Widget?
From Revit, you need to: Run Energy Simulation then click Results and Compare From here, click on: Clicking this little icon in Green Building Studio: Will show you something like this: Essentially, t…
Creating 3D PDFs from Navisworks and Revit using FBX
Of the 4 free 3D PDF creation methods I have previously posted, this is the easiest and probably the best: Export an FBX file from Revit, Navisworks, or any other Autodesk application (File – Export –…
Revit Online is available
Well, its available somewhere. I can’t seem to get the link going here in Australia, but Steve Bennett did (see image and tweet below). I’m guessing this is only in certain localities? Here is a PDF a…
Weird – ever had a GUID conflict for Revit add-ins installed via MSI?
Just installed CloudWorx (more on this later) and it had a GUID conflict with CADtoEarth – weird? Wonder if the installer somehow couldn’t properly generate a unique identifier (see image). In any cas…
Great Handout about Massing and Adaptive Components from Marcello via pdxRUG
You will need to join pdxRUG to download. And yes, it has more than 100 pages:http://files.meetup.com/6696572/Mass_class_PDXRUG_handout_by_marcello_Sgambelluri.pdf Embedded video of the July 2013 meet…
Swapping Family Parameters for Shared Parameters
Did you know you could swap a previously added Family Parameter for a Shared Parameter? Just select it in the Family Types dialog and click Modify… Next question – should you swap, or just add the SP …
Changing the way that an existing Array adds elements
When you select an Array element (the line with the blue number), did you ever notice the little checkbox in the Options Bar? By toggling this value, you can tell Revit to either add extra elements be…