The LOD discussion (debate?) continues…
Following the release of BIMForum’s LOD spec, there has been a bit of a blog discussion happening, involving at least the following three posts: practical BIM: LOD, are we there yet…using BIM for the …
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Viewing a Schedule of all Painted Surfaces in Revit (including Split Face etc)
Great tip from Philip Chan. Basically: Make a Material Take-off / Multi Category Add the Material: As Paint parameter Filter by this parameter = Yes (now the schedule is only showing painted surfaces)…
Point Cloud Extension coming for 3dsMax 2014
“new ability to import and visualize massive datasets captured from reality as point clouds. If you are a modeler, you can view point clouds in true color in the 3ds Max viewport, interactively adjust…
LOD Specification – 2013 version
EDIT Article about this here Its all over the Twitterverse and Blogosphere, but the magnitude of this document still requires a post here. Download a copy of the August 22, 2013 version of LOD Specifi…
Revit 2013 – Hotfix for Spot Elevations
” improves product instability when inserting Spot Elevations within Sections.”I tweeted this last night, but if you don’t follow me, here are the links: Revit2013_SpotElev_Hotfix.zip (zip – 14553Kb) …
Code Calcs is back, and its working on 2013 and 2014. Do you like saving time?
There is a difference between BIM and automation. Using Revit for BIM isn’t automatic – you need skills, time and effort to make it work. Certain Revit add-ins fill a real need to make that leap betwe…
Using your Revit model for construction site layout by converting to points with Point Layout
Interesting – this kind of turns the point cloud technology upside down… It goes something like this: Revit model to points to site survey hardware (set out the building) build it then laser scan the …
Paint colours – adsklib for download
Dunn Edwards have provided an adsklib file for download that matches their paint colours to Revit materials. I previously posted about Lysaght adsklib way back in 2011:What Revit Wants: Lysaght Bluesc…
Material Graphics Surface Pattern vs Realistic View
Ever noticed how the Graphic Surface Pattern of a Material will override a Walls surface in a Realistic (ie. materiality / render check) view, but not the edges? Firstly, I don’t think Graphics values…
Revit 2013 – DWG export Color ID global change bug
I thought I got in a loop today: Export DWG Expand All Select all rows Try to delete the number in the Color ID box This warning will come up: You have to press Close for every selected row (could be …