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To become a true master of Revit is to know What Revit Wants. You need to have the right Revitude. When you know what Revit wants, you can combine your skills and work effectively. You can use the sof…
“EasyBCD extends and revamps the Windows Vista/Windows 7 BCD bootloader, and with EasyBCD, almost anything is possible. Setting up and configuring a dual-boot between Windows 7, Windows Vista, older v…
A non-breaking space forces Revit to keep two words together, but there is still a visible white space between them. To do this, just hold down Ctrl and Shift, and press Spacebar. EDIT: If you are hav…
This little re-quote has been sitting in my ‘Drafts’ folder for a while. I find it quite challenging: AEC is the only profession where the fabricators do not own the designers. Nike designs and then f…
In the right-click menu, select Orient to a View, Floor Plans, and then select the desired floor plan to orient to. Image from Applied Software Blog The view will automatically crop the view using the…
These steps helped me to leverage some data from a DWF file and convert it into vector data I could use in a DWG file: Open DWF in Design Review Print to PDF using CutePDF (this worked for me) Open re…
scientific investigation demands repeatability of results that can only be achieved by sharing of experimental models. A common set of building models could reduce the time required for researcher dat…
AMD has released the first true 8 core processors. Current Intel i-series chips have up to 4 cores with Hyperthreading, which displays 8 cores to the OS. However, the new AMD architecture may ultimate…
Babelfish translation of this tweet (this tweet itself is in the public domain): The Revit bony Quasar 2013 comes with more tools from integration to other disciplines like Structural MEP and, accordi…
Phil Read has also updated his LinkedIn profile:Phil Read Chief Strategy Officer at M-SIX Portland, Oregon Computer Software viaPhil Read | LinkedIn…