Bring your Minecraft model into Blender
Have you made something cool and architectural in Minecraft and you want to make it real? How about sending it out to Blender? Direct CG has made a tutorial to show you how … This tutorial covers: dow…
Luke Johnson
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Revit eStorage – time to add some external file data to your model!
What does Revit eStorage do?Stores and Restores the data of an external file into Revit extensible storage on a selected element. Download Revit e-Storage link How to install (from the readme):Copy th…
Use a Scope Box to quickly re-orient and align Plan Views
Plan View 1 has a rotated crop, and you want to quickly make Plan View 2 ‘match’ it: In Plan View 1, draw a Scope Box to just within the crop region Optional – apply the Scope Box to Plan View 1 Switc…
Revit for Project Management
Link to the presentation: 2012-04-10 – HARUG – Top 10 Revit Tools for Project Management and Panel Discussion – Presentation (pdf) When was it: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 via April 10th 2012 Meeting � …
Go Marcello! Three different Rotation Rig methods …
Most of us use the old Reference Line with angular dimension method to control rotation in our vanilla Revit families. However, Marcello Sgambelluri has posted three alternative methods to control rot…
Project Set-Up Sheet
Here is a nice idea from the Revit Templateer – make an invisible project setup sheet so that you can see and edit ALL of the important project data in one place! Read more at: Revit Templateer: Proje…
UseGraphicsHardware=0 if running Revit 2013 on Macbook with Parallels
As per the Revit Architecture 2013 Known Issues: Hardware acceleration is not available in the Parallels 7 environment, and Revit will revert to a DirectX 9 based software graphics mode, which will no…
Forcing Revit files to open in a particular version of Revit
Let’s say you have installed Revit 2013 but you want to use Revit 2012 as your default Revit for the time being (and I don’t blame you). Here are the steps from RevitForum (thanks Menschmal). Instruct…
Something Revit 2012 can do better than 2013 (at the moment) is…
importing IFC2x4. Thanks to Geometry Gym, and Jon Mirtschin in particular, an IFC importer add-on for Revit 2012 is under development that aims to support IFC2x4 with nurbs profile / perimeter exchang…
A few notes on Revit 2013 features, including double-click and Grids
Double Click Middle Button in a view = Zoom to FitDouble Click on a component Family = Edit the Family (open in the family editor) Some people like the new Stairs functionality?http://blogs.rand.com/a…