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Martí Broquetas list of BIM standards has been updated:He “turned the list into a table that can be sorted clicking on the headers. THis way it is easy to sort the standards by country,or date or name…
From the About page:We don’t want to re-invent the wheel. We’re fully aware that many groups / professional bodies / organisations are already out there doing their bit to assist the general direction…
Boost Your BIM has been posting some awesome stuff. One older post shows you how to quickly purge your Revit model of Imports: a FilteredElementCollector, a bit of LINQ, a transaction, and Document.De…
Until Revit comes up with some kind of advanced and granular permissions management for workshared files, we are left with a situation that requires best-practice Revit use combined with 100% obedient…
Scenario – you have a TV that only has a LAN port (not wireless), a Netbook that sits in the corner (has been replaced by a tablet), and you want to share Internet to your TV. You can use the Netbook …
Nasty little bug picked up by Jason Kunkel. Basically, you make View Template based on a Schedule View. Then, when you go to delete that original Schedule View, Revit will prompt you with a “View:View…
Its hard to find an unbiased comparison of Revit and ArchiCAD. Ranting flame wars rage continually on LinkedIn… That’s why it is refreshing to see a logical, itemised comparison of the two softwares. …
Interesting aberration that you could use to your advantage – reposted from SARUG: I had Sam override the visibility setting for the masked region and make it transparent, in the linked file, and then…
Most of you already know that VEO is very smart when it comes to document handling – for example, you can easily attach PDFs to elements in the model. You may have seen my Revit eStorage post, which a…
Sometimes, its good to take a breath and think about where Revit and BIM have led us. One case study, recently presented at SARUG by Andrew Abernathy (in slideshow form) included the following interes…