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Navisworks works really well with Point Clouds, particularly in association with Recap. It will usually create ‘voxels’ – groups of points that you can hide or change colour or use in other Navisworks…
The excellent and open-source IFC extension for Revit (previously known as IFC Exporter) has been updated. Please see below for download links and update details. Download links: 16.6 for Revit 2016 1…
Parts allow some extremely powerful workflows in Revit. Did you know that you can take an in-place family, and when you Divide Parts, Revit will make an individual Part for each geometric element? For…
RTV Xporter Pro is one of those addins that I can safely recommend to every Revit user. If you ever need to print more than one sheet, or export a model multiple times, or to multiple formats, this to…
Enscape is continuing to develop new and amazing ways to quickly visualise and present your Revit model… and now, your Sketchup models too. I will cover both of these below… 1) A quick look at the Ens…
A few revealing hints from a recent BIM and Beam post: the forthcoming Advance Steel 2018 release next month will now offer seamless consumption of LOD 350* Revit models Autodesk’s Steel Connections f…
Updated source code for RevitLookup available at:https://github.com/jeremytammik/RevitLookup/releases/tag/2017.0.0.19 Notes from The Building Coder:In the last few weeks, it was significantly restruct…
Bye, bye Showcase! Here are a few notes on Autodesk 2018 product discontinuations. I will add to these as more information becomes available.. Autodesk® Advance Concrete software has been discontinued…
Now that is a very Revit blog title, for sure 🙂 So I had a nice old Curtain Wall Panel Door family, which had a nested ‘container’ Generic Model family… … in which I arrayed a shared, nested Door Pane…
Revit natively supports importing Sketchup up to version 8. If you want to import ‘new’ Trimble Sketchup files, like some nice content you have download from 3D Warehouse, you have at least 2 differen…