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Luke Johnson

Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.

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Xeon Revit workstation vs Custom Built Revit workstation

Interesting little exchange on Twitter recently, with regard to Revit hardware and benchmark performance: @Bizz3D Bizz @Bramdotcom Dell top of line Xeon workstation $3,500 benchmarks at 180. My built …

2011-04-26 · Luke Johnson
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Tile and Center All Open Views

Want to quickly tile all your open views and then instantly center all the visible elements in every view? Tile and Center Open Views – WikiHelp…

2011-04-26 · Luke Johnson
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NVIDIA DRIVERS 270.61 WHQL

New WHQL Nvidia drivers released 18 April 2011:NVIDIA DRIVERS 270.61 WHQL And here is the link to the System tools software:http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/nvidia_system_tools_6.06_uk.html…

2011-04-21 · Luke Johnson
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RAID on the Cheap: Windows 7 Software RAID

Here’s an idea – if you have two old but similarly sized hard drives sitting around, plug them into your Windows 7 PC and create a Striped Volume. Striping increases the access speed of the drive. Thi…

2011-04-20 · Luke Johnson
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Microsoft Office File Validation Add-in Free Download

Office files… have been the major loophole exploited by malicious hackers to inject malformed data such as malformed data to spread malware. … Office File Validation add-in is available for free downl…

2011-04-20 · Luke Johnson
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Engineering giant GHD adopts Autodesk's BIM offering

A $5 MILLION deal with Autodesk will underpin the growth plans of Australia’s GHD, one of the world’s largest engineering companies. Building software to slash costs: an engineering giant adopts Autod…

2011-04-19 · Luke Johnson
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Autodesk 2012 Virtual Event – What time in Australia?

Start – Thursday 21 April 2011, 1 am Finish – Thursday 21 April 2011, 7 am Converted using http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html Event name and details:The Make Your Most Amazing Ideas …

2011-04-18 · Luke Johnson
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Distributed Parallel Rendering in Revit

Are your renders taking ages? Trying to output a big rendered walkthrough? No matter how fast your PC is, these things can take time. Why not enlist a few of the other computers in your office to help…

2011-04-15 · Luke Johnson