Recommended I.T. Blogs
I would like to recommend the following blogs, specifically relating to I.T., keeping up to date and ‘how to do things’. Kevin Beaver’s Security Blog Lifehacker Australia My Digital Life Raymond.cc Bl…
Luke Johnson
Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.
Ultra Fast Revisions with vanilla Revit
Have you ever wanted to ‘re-issue’ or revise a large group of sheets such that they all receive the same, updated revision in the Revision Schedule? Lets say you have 100 sheets and these form the ‘Ap…
Bug – Revit 2010 – Edit Schedule
One of our staff found a bug for Schedule editing in Revit 2010 64 bit. If modifying a Schedule (in our case a Door Schedule) and you change a ‘Type Property’ and then go straight to the ‘Close’ butto…
Dimond Architects – Theatre Walkthrough
After overcoming some issues with the exporting of walkthroughs using 64 bit, I was able to export the following animation. It is a considerably long shaded walkthrough animation of a Theatre Project …
Dimond Architects – Auditorium Visualisation
Here is a visualisation we recently completed in Revit 2010 64 bit. Dimond Architects Pty Ltd…
More Free Utilities
A couple that I forgot to mention: AnVir Task Manager Free – includes some very handy ‘shortcuts’ that it adds to Windows dialog boxes Notepad++ – Notepad replacement Also, I recommend that you check …
Useful Free Utilities
As I go about my day-t0-day, I come across some very good free programs (some of which I have posted about before – see links at bottom). Most recently, I have come across the following free utilities…
Encoding 64 bit Walkthroughs (4 GB limit, AVI corruption)
Update: check out this page for the 64-bit Xvid codec I encountered a problem today related to walkthrough creation in Revit 2010 64 bit with Vista 64 bit. I was exporting a large walkthrough to uncom…
Awesome Productivity Tips from Revit OpEd
When using tools like Mirror or Offset, hold ‘Ctrl’ after triggering the command – this toggles the tick box in the Options bar. Very handy! From Revit OpEd. If you want to make sheets quickly, just u…
osun.org – Search Engine for PDF DOC PPT !
Just came across this search engine for PDF, DOC and PPT files. It is called http://www.osun.org/ For example, lets say you wanted to see what PDF files are available that include the words ‘ revit fa…