CESABIM, Parameters and BIM for Foodservice
Stewart Millar has contributed to the parameter naming debate / dialogue by providing a set of files from CESABIM. The development of the CESABIM Database has been principally based on the FCSI North …
2014
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Are you keeping up with Recap? Have you tried Pro and 360?
To get a Free trial of Autodesk ReCap Pro click on the following link: ReCap Free Trial You can use Autodesk ReCap 360 now for free if you have a Autodesk 360 account. If you don’t have an account, yo…
Interesting Case Study on Energy Analysis and Optimization for Residential Dwellings
From February 6th ORUG meeting, via this link… Slideshow Slides:…
View IFC Data as a Text Tree with this free utility (such as coordinates in an IFC)
From Geometry Gym downloads page:Geometry Gym IFC text tree viewer, Unblock zip (right click Properties) and then unzip into a folder of your choice. ggIFCTreeViewer.zip (4th February 2014) via https:…
Problems with Navisworks, Autodesk Rendering and Orthographic Mode? Try this…
Check your render mode in Tools panel of Home ribbon: “Change your render mode to “Presenter” and you can switch back and forth between “Perspective” and “Orthographic”.” Original post:http://enceptia…
Is BIM just for Architects and Builders (Head Contractors)?
“on a building project that is made more efficient by VDC it is the subcontractors that have most to gain particularly when you also recognise that subcontract margins are up to seven times that of a …
Crossing Window Selection in Navisworks
Sometimes the differences between using various Autodesk softwares can be very subtle. For instance, selection in Navisworks – I have already posted about the unfortunate lack of a “Revit Tab selectio…
Have you considered Using Autodesk Remote for File Transfer?
Interesting comment:Autodesk Remote is another option, at least for Autodesk Subscription customers. I’ve used it in conjunction with Dropbox / Google Drive to remote and transfer files Posted by: Aur…
Text Height and Size Factor Translation Table Spreadsheet for Revit, by LawrenceH
Lawrence has discovered that Revit is not 100 percent accurate when setting different font heights and printing them, and he has provided a handy spreadsheet to translate these values. Download the tr…
Navisworks, Glue, or Both?
Some people view Glue as a lightweight, cloud version of Navisworks. So, in what scenario would you use desktop Navisworks and cloud Glue together? These questions: How do Navisworks and Autodesk® BIM…