The Parametric Life (repost)
Interesting post over at BIM + Integrated Design. It includes 14 Rules for Living In, Out and Around BIM.My blog has dealt with ‘What Revit Wants’ in more than a few posts over the last few years. So …
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System Spectrum Analyser (analyse your computer specifications)
If you would like a free tool that gives you a very quick, concise summary of your system specifications, you can download one from here:System Spectrum Analyser Please see the related posts below if …
Free PDF Convert Merge Split Modify etc Tool
I traditionally use Free PDF Tools from PDFill for this kind of task, but there is a download available today at giveawayoftheday.com for Foxonic Professional 4.0.. There is still 8 hours remaining to…
How to Print a large set of drawings to individual PDFs with automatic naming
Sometimes you will want to produce a large set of PDFs where each drawing sheet is in its own PDF file. You also want the PDFs to be automatically named and created. There are a number of ways to acco…
Accessing Project Parameters in Multiple Schedules (Jay Polding)
This is one of the most exciting blog posts I have read for some time:http://revit.blogspot.com/2010/03/accessing-project-parameters-in.html from Jay Polding at revit in plain english. Essentially, in…
Cascading licensing sequence for 2010 products
Have a look at this page from Revit Architecture Services and Support if “You want to know in what order cascading licensing checks for available licenses for Autodesk 2010 products.”…
How to add a label to a Component Family (automatic tag)
Sometimes you will want a component family to ‘always’ show a certain label. In other words, you do not want to have to manually ‘tag’ the family after placing it in project. How can we do this?Basica…
How to Change your Software Delivery Method (to get boxed software)
As you know, Autodesk is now making software available as a ‘Download’ by default for Subscription customers – you won’t automatically receive a boxed version. However, if you still wish to receive a …
Add a URL link to your Titleblock – easy way to advertise!
No doubt you issue many PDF files to consultants, Clients, Builders and the like. Why not add a URL link to your titleblock, so that anyone receiving your PDF files can jump directly to your webpage? …
Learning Revit Architecture 2010 – links
I was interested in what I could find on Scribd to do with Revit – turns out there are some resources available. Have a look at some of the search results here:autodesk revit architecture essentials s…