Natspec and NZ BIM
Glenn Jowett posted some insight into BIM standards development in New Zealand:Natspec have been commissioned to author the NZ BIM Handbook The aim is to create a guide that will clarify BIM (on a nat…
Luke Johnson
Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.
Revit Journal Cleaner updated for 2014 (download)
via Email:It seems that the Revit Journal Cleaner 2013 stopped working as soon as Revit 2014 was installed a the computer.I update the Revit Journal Cleaner to now support 2014 (and lower).Download li…
Have you heard of GreenSpider? The Revit point cloud importer?
It is an interesting add-in for Revit that can import point data into the conceptual environment. It was written to “narrow the gap between computational concept design, terrestrial laser scanning and…
Ramp surface Model Pattern in Plan Views – workarounds
Here are some ideas: Use a Filter with a Drafting Pattern and match the Hatch Scale to the View Scale. Link: Model pattern not visible on ramps in plan views? Use Floors with slope arrows instead (to …
The "sooner you get on board" with Revit, the better
A very interesting Case Study written by Doug Andresen (principal architect at Andresen Architecture, Inc) was posted to AUGI last week. He describes how his firm transitioned from AutoCAD to Revit. H…
Revit 2014 – a post not by David Light
Rather than get lost in the flood of Revit 2014 information, I thought I would wait until closer to the time that most people will actually start installing and using it. The post below is just a coll…
Here comes Trimble's Sketchup strategy – going for more BIM market?
Image: Link: Download SketchUp | SketchUp…
How to tag Ramp slopes in Revit 2013 and Revit 2014 with Slot Slope tool
In Revit 2013, you can’t tag the slope of ramps in Plan views using the Spot Slope tool. There are workarounds out there already, but here is an easy one: Make a new Generic Model Adaptive family with…
Using an Adaptive Component to measure surface area accurately
Remember Julien Benoit’s adaptive component tutorial from a year ago (link here)? Well, Julien has made something pretty cool and posted it on RFO. It is basically a 4 point adaptive component that ca…
Download Open Source Software that is used in Autodesk packages
Check out this list: Open Source Distribution You can download individual packages as ZIP files. Some of the more well known OSS used are 7zip, ffmpeg and SharpDevelop. Heads-up:Jeremy Tammik, The Bui…