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Heads-up from Ideate Solutions, originally from Revit Clinic: tagging the physical wires instead of tagging the device: draw wires coming off of each connector as small as possible (if the wire is sho…
When working across an entire healthcare facility and clashing combined NWDs, Navisworks may slow down to a crawl (we are talking single instance using 10gb RAM or more). Here are some tips to improve…
An interesting discussion has been brewing over on LinkedIn about IFC Export from Revit. In my personal experience, the most predictable results come from deleting the IfcExportAs parameter and using …
Now available in Application Manager, direct links: Autodesk_Navisworks_2015_Service_Pack_2_Multilingual_Freedom_64bit.msp (msp – 201Mb) Autodesk_Navisworks_2015_Service_Pack_2_Multilingual_Manage_64b…
Adam Sheather, aka gytaco, has put out some pretty interesting content in the past week. He was trying to solve a programming puzzle to do with pre-cast panels, molds, concrete curing etc. Based on hi…
Happily, it is becoming less and less common that we have to actually justify why we do BIM. But if you do, Daniel Hughes has put together an interesting list based on his experience:“Here’s my list o…
I’m very interested in where Paul is heading with this:The QR Code pictured below, when scanned, will pull up the website, triggering the data in it to be sent to Revit. Picture a QR Code with info on…
A long while back, I posted about an OBJ Exporter for Revit by Jeremy Tammik. Looks like there is another way of doing this now, and it has been released for Revit 2014 and 2015. The purpose behind th…
Let’s say you have 15 RVT links in FileA, and you want to copy them into FileB. Revit doesn’t usually want you to have two instances of the same linked file loaded into two different open files in a s…
IFC Exporter for Revit 2014 (v3.11):http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aifcexporterforrevit2014%3aen IFC Export Alternate UI for Revit 2014 (v2.11…