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Maximise your Investment in BIM webinar postponed

After logging in for the Maximise your Investment in BIM Across the Project Lifecycle with Autodesk® Building Design Suite Premium webinar today, I was presented with this message: Dear Customer It is…

2011-07-20 · Luke Johnson
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Revit 2012 and Rounding Formulas

In Revit, you can sometimes get some weird results from a schedule that directly uses Totals for Areas. For example, the individual Areas of a number of elements may add up to a certain number, but th…

2011-07-19 · Luke Johnson
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Options Bar bullies the Properties Palette into submission

Do this: Place a new Room While placing, adjust the Limit Offset in the Properties Palette. Everything is ok. Now, still while placing, adjust the Offset in the Options Bar. The Properties Palette is …

2011-07-19 · Luke Johnson
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Revit 2012 Silently Install Extensions

Extract REX setup from exe to C:Autodesk Go to C:AutodeskREX_RST_2012x64REX_RST (for x64) Run the command as an Administrator: REX_RST.msi /q viaRevit 2012: Silently Install Extensions – Up and Ready …

2011-07-18 · Luke Johnson
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Open Revit Standard – Abbreviation files

Jay Zallan has posted links to some files containing lists of standard abbreviations. Here are the links in context: @JayZallan#OpenRevStds Here are some Standard abbreviation files to incorporate!!!?…

2011-07-17 · Luke Johnson
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Converting a raster image to a DWG file

I wanted to convert a PDF file into content I could use in a Planting family in Revit. Part of that process involved converting the image into DWG hatches that Revit could understand, either as an imp…

2011-07-14 · Luke Johnson
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Revit Hotfix – Incorrect Ribbon Icons

If you are running Revit French, Italian, German, Spanish, Simpl. Chinese, Korean, Russian, Polish, Braz. Portuguese versions, you may need this… This hotfix addresses issues related to incorrect icon…

2011-07-13 · Luke Johnson
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Revit Wars, Revit Trek or Revit Gate

Which do you identify with? In Revit Wars, you are in a battle for your life. It seems that you are the little guy, but you are up against a huge, monolithic, impersonal empire. Each time you move, so…

2011-07-12 · Luke Johnson
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Autodesk 123D – Beta 5 is here

Here are some links: viaAutodesk 123D – Download Free 3D Modeling Software Whats New document here…

2011-07-11 · Luke Johnson
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RTC Dataset Files from Paul Aubin (and others)

Paul Aubin has posted his RTC files for download. In this package is a ‘Detailing Sandbox’ RVT file that includes a pretty comprehensive Wall Section that is annotated using Keynotes. There is also fo…

2011-07-11 · Luke Johnson