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2013-12

Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.

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Door Family Library Screencast

Screencast by Aaron Maller: Viewing this content requires Silverlight. You can download Silverlight from http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight. Open embedded content: external media via Twiceroadsfo…

2013-12-16 · Luke Johnson
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Adding a Filled Region to a Sheet

With simply a bit of back and forth into and out of a Detail Group, you can get a Filled Region onto a Sheet… You can watch Paolo demonstrate it here: Open embedded content: chronicle.autodesk.comhttp…

2013-12-16 · Luke Johnson
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Another Realtime Visualisation Software Project

If you want to sign up to test it, email info@kalloc.com with subject Fuzor Evaluation. From Steve’s blog:The product is only about six months old at this point and about to become available for evalu…

2013-12-16 · Luke Johnson
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COINS Auto-Section Box updated! (December 2013)

Arguably the most useful free add-in for Revit, there are some great new features – the one that particularly grabbed my eye was the automatic alignment and rotation of section boxes to certain elemen…

2013-12-11 · Luke Johnson
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Why Viewing BIM After Dark will be Worth It for You

I’m honest enough to admit that Revit has the unfortunate reputation as a tool that is “bad” for presentation. Happily, BIM After Dark aims to correct that – by making all of us better at using Revit …

2013-12-10 · Luke Johnson
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Auditing and Comparing Model Groups in Revit 2014

I have been searching for a quick and easy way to compare exclusions between Group instances – and nothing really exists at this point. So, I have developed a method to do this by using Revit and some…

2013-12-10 · Luke Johnson
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Take the Guesswork out of Scaling an Image in Revit

After inserting an image in Revit, sometimes the X and Y (Raster Image Width and Height parameters) values of the image are somewhat “warped” and need to be adjusted to match your model background. I …

2013-12-09 · Luke Johnson