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Had an interesting challenge this week – we needed to restore some 20 year old CAD files from archive. Turns out we had no viable way to restore them from the physical tape, but we could get the old w…
Paolo has “managed to complete tools for conversion from internal units and metric (meters, centimeters and millimeters) for lengths, areas and volumes (LAV).” Download these and put them in C:Autodes…
“… different parts of a model can be viewed at a time by splitting the Scene View vertically and horizontally. The options can be accessed from the View > Scene View > Split View drop-down. …” from Sh…
We have come across a slightly annoying issue: someone modifies a Linked DWG file in AutoCAD, and upon reloading in Revit, the Import Scale will have been somehow automatically and incorrectly set to …
Read about it on the Help page:http://help.autodesk.com/view/ADSKFD/ENU/?guid=GUID-C5218E9E-5122-4720-B62D-A968F96A7D02 From Labs blog:“updated version of Falcon with an improved user interface for th…
I don’t think the API programmers should get scared just yet, but is there a day coming when visual programming will completely replace custom code? Julien seems to think so: “I firmly believe Dynamo …
Tim over at the RevitCat has put together a nice writeup on component stairs, and specifically, landings. Some of you may have struggled to place a landing at the top of a stair flight – particularly …
I recently posted about converting Topography to massing forms using a somewhat “manual”, yet lofted and smooth, method:Convert Revit Topography into Massing Forms Harry provides some code to do a sim…
Its already across the Twitterverse, but in case you missed it: 2013: IFC Exporter for Revit 2013 (v2.16): http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aifcexp…
This topic is somewhat of a work in progress (I know Julien and a few others have been chasing how to make this happen nicely). Lev Lipkin made a comment on the thread, which reads a bit like a how-to…