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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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Details: Interesting addition to DWG export: Adds the option to export to DWG/DXF and DGN in True Color (RGB Values), as specified in the view. I previously used some weird round trips via DGN to get …
Fellow Expert Elite Karam Baki has posted an interesting workaround for ‘converting’ between differently hosted Revit families. The term converting isn’t quite accurate, really we are just ‘nesting’ t…
Details: Download: http://up.autodesk.com/2017/NAVMAN/Autodesk_Navisworks_2017_Update_2_Multilingual_Manage_64bit.msp Readme pdf: Autodesk_Navisworks_2017_Update_2_Feature_readme.pdf…
Every now and then, you come across a software product that makes complete and absolute sense. As a Revit professional, I have spent a lot of time learning how to use Revit: how to play by the rules, …