Ideas for AutoCAD – Vote if you care
The AutoCAD Design team is experimenting with new ways to get feedback from our users. Your suggestions help make AutoCAD (Mac & Windows) better, so let us know what would make AutoCAD easier to use, …
Luke Johnson
Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.
3D Maps That'll Knock Your Socks Off
The company that pioneered this awesome technology has been purchased by a currently unknown party – mysterious stuff! Open embedded content: www.youtube.com viaFrom Sweden: Next-gen, NSA-like 3D Maps…
Complaining whingers and What Revit Wants
When users complain, moan, whinge about #revit, they need to find a mirror & look in it, cos more often than not, its u the user not #revit via David Light Twitter / @davewlight: When users complain, …
Quad monitor setup using Geforce and Quadro mixture
My main video card is a Nvidia Quadro FX 580. However, I wanted to run more than two monitors. So I borrowed a old GeForce 7300 LE and installed it into one of the other PCI-E slots on my Gigabyte EX5…
PC on a USB Stick for $25
Game developer David Braben has developed a $25 PC, in a USB stick with a HDMI port on one end and a USB port on the other. The hardware inside is a 700MHz ARM11 processor with 128MB of RAM, together …
Placing a Spot Dimension in a Detail Group
When in Edit Mode for a given Detail Group, the Spot Dimension tools are grayed out. However, if you place the Spot Dimension OUTSIDE the Detail Group, and then ‘Add’ it to the Group – Revit is quite …
Vault can be used to search Revit families
Do you know much about Autodesk Vault? Watch this quick video to see how powerful it can be in searching through your Revit family library: Video via Autodesk Revit and Autodesk Vault Collaboration A…
Save an In-Place Family as an RFA for use in another project
Do you have some awesome in-place families that you would like to convert to normal Component families, so that you can load them into other projects? Here’s how: Open the Project containing the In-Pl…
Two frames for the price of one – cut walkthrough rendering time in half
Are you sick of waiting ages for a Revit walkthrough to render? Using this technique, you can cut your walkthrough rendering time in half! Essentially, we make half the frames we need in Revit, and th…
Finding the fastest USB flash drive
Thinking of buying a new USB Flash drive? Head over to this site:UsbFlashSpeed.com You can also download a utility to benchmark any flash drives that you own:download link…