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I knew that you could select the ‘camera’ element of a 3D View by right-clicking the 3D View name in the Project Browser and clicking ‘Show Camera’. However, I did not realise that you can also select…
Update: check out this page for the 64-bit Xvid codec I previously described the difficulty of encoding walkthroughs on 64-bit Revit with any sort of compression codec. I did provide a workaround in t…
Came across an excellent series of posts over at Revit Detail. If you go to this post, you can download quite a number of these videos for offline use.…
As you know, support for DirectX is now an intrinsic part of Revit 3D hardware acceleration mode. If you wish to install updated DirectX runtimes, go to this link (February 2010 version). This may or …
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I received my copy of Mastering Revit Architecture 2011 yesterday, and it is truly an impressive tome! I don’t know of any other book that could so fittingly bear the designation ‘Revit bible’. At 112…
Great tip from Troy Gates over at AUGI: Re: Revit 2011 Properties Box VS. Project Browser You could mimic the previous properties box by floating it over your working area and toggling it on and off w…
Issue You want to know if Autodesk products are supported on non-Microsoft networks. Solution Autodesk products are designed to conform to Microsoft Network API standards. All other networks that are …
In another post, I discussed the feedback form that allows you to make suggestions directly to Autodesk. Yesterday, I made this suggestion:When overriding a Category in view by using: Select element R…
It looks like Firefox 4 is going to have some very nice features, but they might be old news if you are an Apple fanboy. To download Firefox 4 Beta (codenamed ‘Minefield’ hehe), go to this link. Then,…