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2013

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Nice visual Dynamo slideshow (on Prezi)

By Julien Benoit (nice job mate). Source:http://prezi.com/1wm_1gzxdx7s/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share Embedded:Open embedded content: prezi.com Heads-up:https://twitter.com/Jbenoit44/…

2013-07-14 · Luke Johnson
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You can break Revit by making Room families

Part of knowing What Revit Wants, is also knowing what it Does Not want. Sometimes, you can push the hack (or workaround) that step or two too far… and the result is unpredictable, buggy and kinda use…

2013-07-14 · Luke Johnson
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Making furniture families in Revit geometry (by Andy Milburn)

Andy posted about re-creating furniture families in native Revit forms. He also provides a download link to some of the fruits of his labour. Read the whole post:Shades of Grey: FURNITURE FRITZ “You c…

2013-07-14 · Luke Johnson
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Extending the vanilla Revit shortcut key capability

I don’t normally post “paid” addins, but this is an interesting little idea for an app:Assign a HotKey to a specific component, not just a command (link) I wonder if someone would like to make a Revit…

2013-07-14 · Luke Johnson
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Should you become a Revit blogger?

“That’s the value of blogging and sharing your thoughts, your IP, your abilities—when you throw it out there, it can come back to you a hundredfold in the form of new clients, new opportunities and gr…

2013-07-14 · Luke Johnson
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BIMFrame Connect – Google Cloud addin for Revit

Daniel Monsén has created one of those addins where you just have to say “this makes sense”. The key feature of Bimframe Connect? It allows users to import and export data from Revit to a Google Sprea…

2013-07-14 · Luke Johnson
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Dynamo 0.5.2 and daily builds/z

Read Zach’s post:http://buildz.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/dynamo-052-daily-builds-rtc-and-more.html Daily builds (unintentional pun?) of Dynamo are available for download at:http://dyn-builds-pub.s3-webs…

2013-07-10 · Luke Johnson
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Room Dimensions X by Y – 2 methods in Revit

Revit deals in realities. The reality is, many Rooms are not rectangular. So we can forgive vanilla Revit for not having a built in tool or method that could only really ‘guess’ at X and Y room dimens…

2013-07-10 · Luke Johnson