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Just had a great meeting with Andy Parnell-Hopkinson of 3Dconnexion GmbH. In the course of our discussion, Andy solved a problem that had bothered me with the SPP – how to use Fly mode in a 3D orthogr…
Then you can download Autodesk Inventor View 2014. Share native Autodesk® Inventor® software data with non-Autodesk Inventor users with this freely distributable viewer that delivers high-fidelity vie…
Following this tweet from Sean: @djnelson75 @lukeyjohnson that’s mysterious, especially since there’s nothing for signage and roads STILL doesn’t have a use.— Sean David Burke (@seandburke) September …
Interesting new addition to the Labs site. I think it is intended for Factory workflows, but theoretically could be adapted for BIM productivity analysis. You basically define Sources, Processors and …
What does it do?Gives you more granular control over the calculation of wall and opening area The results you get are divided according to an area value you can set. All the openings below that Maximu…
Have you ever used the Workplane Viewer? It looks like this: When you open it, a new window opens and orients itself to the current workplane. This window is the Workplane Viewer. Revit Wants you to b…
Many of you will know that I made a significant move about 3 months ago – I moved my young family over 2000 kms and took a new position working for Woodhead in Adelaide. It has been an exciting and ey…
Having repeatedly asked and searched for a detailed, up-to-date and accurate Category Guide for Revit to no avail, I have decided to start one as a simple shared Google spreadsheet. The purpose of thi…
The current version of Recap Pro runs on Windows 7 and 8 (download link). However, for the time being you can still download Recap version 1.0 from this link:http://labs-download.autodesk.com/us/labs/…
You can host profiles onto the nodes of a divided path (line), however they can’t be conventional Revit profiles, they must be adaptive components – they can be quite simple drawn in 2d (XY axis) with…