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Do you have a problem with your SSD getting maxed out by a bloated TEMP directory (%temp%) ? In Revit, you might have an issue with revittemp_ files, particularly if you are using massive federated mo…
Wow, Revit 2015 is really going for the ‘most updates’ record! Autodesk Revit 2015 R2 Update Release 12 Autodesk Revit 2015 R2 Update Release 12 Readme R2 Download link: http://up.autodesk.com/2015/RV…
I’m sure you have probably seen this message before: Can’t edit the element until ‘problemUser’ resaves the element to central and relinquishes it and you Reload Latest This may be caused by one of yo…
Here’s how: Install JetBrains Dotpeek from http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/ Open Dotpeek (if you can’t find it %appdata%\JetBrains\Installations\dotPeek04\dotPeek32.exe) Open a DLL Browse the reso…
IFC version 4 (IFC4) is now supported. Here is a very basic how-to on the steps to take to set this up in iConstruct 2016, running on Navisworks 2016: iConstruct -> IFC Configuration Select top node o…
I have posted some other methods before… Batch Convert DWF to Revit using Navisworks How to Convert a DWF to Editable Format, or How to Export from Navisworks and Keep Modelling in BIM Export Geometry…
Guess what? WordPress.com is different to WordPress.org. WordPress.org is self hosted and you can do things like install plugins. WordPress.com is hosted by, uh, WordPress and you can’t install plugin…
Office Lens is an amazing app for scanning documents or even whiteboard images directly to images, PDFs, even OneDrive and Office documents. The smoothest way is straight to OneNote. However, it doesn…
Brian Nickel recently sent through a link to the very Elk package for Dynamo, that essentially opens up web geographical data access to Dynamo and thus through to Revit for topography creation and sim…
I had this idea over the holidays… and while it is still in its infancy, I have already received some good feedback along the lines of “this is what people have been looking for…” I have invited all o…