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If you view a lot of IFC files in Tekla BIMsight, you may find that the cache or storage folder fills up quite quickly. If this is in its default location of \%localappdata%\Tekla\Tekla BIMsight\ then…
If you have just scaled an object (such as a Raster Image) at a certain scale, did you know you can re-use that previous scaling method very quickly on other objects? Simply: Scale one element Select …
Have you ever wondered how to increase the image resolution exported by Navisworks during a Clash Report? You can set this in the Registry, look in bottom left corner of image for the location of this…
When Revit exports to IFC, it typically uses the current Location (Survey Point) Shared Coordinates as Origin. You can observe this in the IFC file: But what if you want to Export to IFC with Project …
I thought that most of this was ‘easy’ and solved now, but it was more of a challenge than I expected. I received a ASC file from a survey in XYZRGB format, which looks like this: Those XYZ values are…
So, you are modelling this awesome conceptual design with Dynamo and Revit, and you realise “hey, what we need is access to the Star Wars API in here…” Yes? Well, thanks to Jostein Berger Olsen, you c…
In Revit, we often get access to a lot of useful information early in the design stages. To start with, you might have an Area Plan or perhaps a Room layout with defined area allowances for specific s…
TBP is a Tekla container format, and part of what it typically contains is the model data in IFC format. Just open the TBP in an archive viewer like 7-zip: Now you can see the folder structure inside …
Ok, Parts are pretty cool, particularly when working with Linked Files. But there is a strange behaviour in Revit that exists between the Parts Visibility setting of a View, and the Parts category Vis…
Download a suitable image such as Android-x86 5.1 rc1.vdi from: Android x86 VM images for VMware and VirtualBox Attach it to a Linux image in VirtualBox, my settings below: Depending on your host hard…