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Are you interested in Tekla to Revit (and back) interoperability? Then check out:Tekla-Revit Interoperability Forum | LinkedIn Various plug-ins and workflows are available which may help you coordinat…
Another nice workaround by Philip Chan – if you want to change one of Revit’s built-in Type Parameters (derived from a Family Template, such as Door Fire Rating) to an Instance Parameter, you just hav…
These fractals can both be drawn by emulating a pen: we keep track of the direction the pen is facing, and we can make the pen draw lines of a certain length in its current direction. We can turn the …
Following the release of BIMForum’s LOD spec, there has been a bit of a blog discussion happening, involving at least the following three posts: practical BIM: LOD, are we there yet…using BIM for the …
Great tip from Philip Chan. Basically: Make a Material Take-off / Multi Category Add the Material: As Paint parameter Filter by this parameter = Yes (now the schedule is only showing painted surfaces)…
“new ability to import and visualize massive datasets captured from reality as point clouds. If you are a modeler, you can view point clouds in true color in the 3ds Max viewport, interactively adjust…
EDIT Article about this here Its all over the Twitterverse and Blogosphere, but the magnitude of this document still requires a post here. Download a copy of the August 22, 2013 version of LOD Specifi…
” improves product instability when inserting Spot Elevations within Sections.”I tweeted this last night, but if you don’t follow me, here are the links: Revit2013_SpotElev_Hotfix.zip (zip – 14553Kb) …
There is a difference between BIM and automation. Using Revit for BIM isn’t automatic – you need skills, time and effort to make it work. Certain Revit add-ins fill a real need to make that leap betwe…
Interesting – this kind of turns the point cloud technology upside down… It goes something like this: Revit model to points to site survey hardware (set out the building) build it then laser scan the …