Smoother multitasking while Rendering in Revit
Revit 2011 (Mental Ray) utilises all available CPU cores that the OS can ‘see.’ When multitasking, your PC may slow to a crawl after a render begins. You can limit the amount of CPU time that the Rend…
Luke Johnson
Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.
Dimond Architects Blog: Sustainable Cities Event 2010 – Singapore
“Dimond Architects has been able to recently put forward a proposal for a prototype version of the design for Taiwan (to later be incorporated into Eco-City projects in mainland China).” Read the rest…
Great free stuff from Steve
Steve Stafford is a pillar of the Revit community. There are some great free downloads at his site, AEC Advantage. Check out the downloads page:http://www.aecadvantage.com/links2 There is a great docu…
Stretch instance parameter even using Weak Ref Planes
Steve’s post about ‘Weak and Strong’ is very informative. However, if you want to ‘stretch’ a family with instance parameters AND a weak ref plane, simply ‘Tab’ until you get Revit to say ‘Shape handl…
Cuttable vs Non-cuttable families
You want to know which families are cuttable and which are not. Revit 2011 help gives the answer: Cuttable families (link):CaseworkCeilingsColumnsCurtain Wall PanelsDoorsFloorsGeneric ModelsRoofsSiteS…
Do you want to help make Revit better?
“Do you want to get an advance peek at possible new features, or even influence future releases of the Revit application suite? Join the Revit Architecture, MEP, and Structure designers for ongoing us…
Running a Small Business Server with Exchange?
Then you should download and run these free tools: Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer tool Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer…
Keep Your Computer Active Sans Software With A Watch
If you have an analogue watch and a laser mouse, you can easily keep your computer “active” by setting the mouse on top of the watch, no software or computer tweaking necessary. Keep Your Computer Act…
Full Explode vs Partial Explode – what is the difference?
After selecting an Import instance, you can choose to Full Explode or Partial Explode. Most users realise that exploding is a bad idea, and it can get very messy. In fact, a number of experienced Revi…
What does this phone have in common with Revit?
…