Autodesk Revit Live 1.7 Released
Autodesk’s answer to realtime rendering from Revit is continuing its steady development. Now known as Autodesk Revit Live (formerly Autodesk LIVE), the new features include being able to choose visual…
2017-02
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Goodbye Autodesk Suites, Hello Industry Collections
In case you missed it: Autodesk Suites are gone, you can’t buy them officially anymore. Instead, you can buy into an Industry Collection. Here are products in each Collection, from the FAQ: And here i…
How Can You Integrate Manufacturer Content with Your Company BIM Library?
I’m wondering if 2017 will be the year that BIM content management stopped being hard 🙂 Maybe that’s going a bit far, but the fact is that there are some great content management tools out in the mark…
Microsoft Print to PDF Driver Does Not Play Nice with Revit
Have you experienced a blank and somewhat non-responsive Print dialog in Revit? Pressing Setup does nothing in this situation: What’s going on here? Well, there is something in the Microsoft Print to …
Check Cloud Service Status At a Glance with the Autodesk Health Dashboard
As we move more and more information and services to the cloud, 100% uptime becomes more and more necessary. In our BIM world, if you are running a project on C4R (Collaboration for Revit), and that c…
Free Tool to Compare Revit Models And Visualize The Differences
UPDATE: Metamorphosis Installer for Revit 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 This is a very useful addin coded by Matt Mason during a recent Hackathon. Basically, it lets you take a Snapshot of a Revit file at a …
Revit Wants The Whole Team On The Exact Same Revit Version
This has been a ‘best practice’ rule for a while now, but it still applies, even in 2017. You should not mix Revit 2017.1 and 2017.2 on a single Central File. This was flagged by pepar in the BIM Expe…
How To Use A Temporary Point Cloud Transformation To Maintain Accuracy in Revit
Revit doesn’t like big numbers. There, I said it. So when dealing with ‘world’ coordinates in a point cloud, sometimes things just don’t work too well. I thought I had this all solved recently by usin…