Lumion 8 Pro Review and Test Drive
Recently, I was involved in the development of a construction animation with my colleague here at Virtual Built. The end result was very good, but I observed quite a few challenges he faced along the …
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Will Mission Control for Revit become Open Source?
Starting at this tweet, Konrad Sobon triggered quite a discussion around Revit addins and how to manage users, deploy addins, and track their usage. He has worked on coding a tool called Mission Contr…
How to Find Zombie Processes that Are Eating Your Memory in Windows
When working with serious hardware and big 3D models, computer memory management is an important thing. You want every byte of RAM to be doing a job for your system. So I was very interested to read t…
How To Export a 2D DWG File to Revizto
Currently, exporting a flat 2D DWG file from AutoCAD or Navisworks to Revizto will probably yield the following message: However, you can simply take these steps to work around the issue: Open the DWG…
Secrets to be Revealed in the next BIM360 Webinar
I have been chatting with one or two industry insiders over at Autodesk recently, and there are some pretty big changes coming to the BIM360 fraternity of products. For the most part, it seems like th…
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The Most Important Tables When Rebuilding WordPress Database after a Recent Restore
If your domain host happens to crash and they go ahead and restore MySQL data that is a few days old, which database tables are likely to be most important to incrementally rebuilding your WordPress d…
Getting Started with Autodesk Forge – The Easy Way
As you probably know, Forge is kind of like Autodesk’s way of opening up a model API for anything and anybody to connect to (over-simplified description, I know). If you do want to start playing with …
Using the Command Line to Batch Export Revizto Issue Tracker Data to XLSX
Revizto doesn’t strictly offer an API (yet) for connecting to its data. But you can use the command line to export an Excel file of all of the current issue tracker data. And you could schedule this e…
The Revit 2017 Architectural Command Reference – A Map to the Maze of Revit Commands
The first time you opened Revit, you likely found it pretty confusing. So many commands, so many ribbons, so many little buttons and drop down menus. Dialog box after dialog box… What’s a Family and h…