Revit versus ArchiCAD – Whats your bias?
Consider this recent article: ArchiCAD vs. Revit By Ransom Ratcliff 2011-08-08. As far as I can tell, it was birthed at this forum thread. Inevitably, these X versus Y comparisons are often extremely …
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What is happening on 8.16 – August 16?
Something is coming from Autodesk and my guess is that it is design related. Many Autodeskers have been teasing an upcoming announcement from Autodesk that will be made on the 16th of August 2011. www…
You want to know if a dwg file was created in Revit
You want to know if a DWG file was created in Revit. 1. Open the DWG file in AutoCAD. 2. Enter Filter on the command line. 3. Select XDATA ID from the Filter drop-down list. 4. Click Select. 5. In XDA…
Create Similar from a Legend View
To Create Similar from a Legend View, first select the element, then activate the target view, then invoke Create Similar. via Revit Warning 🙂 You may also be interested in:Create Similar tool persist…
Mosaic – New data aggregation website from Autodesk
Head on over to Mosaic to check out the new aggregation website that Autodesk has created for the Autodesk User Community. Open embedded content: www.youtube.com…
BIM Design Resources
Check out this collection of BIM design resources: BIM Libraries | Whole Building Design Guide For instance, there are links to multiple different ‘standards’ and guides. A few are listed below: AIA I…
Turn an ellipse into arcs for use in Revit
A few of the global Revit pros have had a crack at rationalizing an ellipse for use in Revit. Zach Kron went conceptual, Phil Read trimmed his way around, and David Light played with circle-based segm…
Entering different units while using Revit natively
We know that each Revit project has a Unit setting (Manage – Project Units). This dictates the default entry units (while typing the Length of a wall, for example.) However, what if you want to enter …
Revit Technology Conference Archived Materials for Download free
In past years, the presentation materials for the Revit Technology Conference were made available for download by anyone – even if you didn’t attend! Check out the following links: RTC 2008 :: Materia…
Coordination Technique with Graphic Display and Schedulability
Sometimes a post comes along that I can’t help but re-post. The BIM Troublemaker has gone to the trouble of making a handy little Generic Annotation family for Coordination, with some great formulaic …