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The problem – Appending a given NWC creates hundreds of lights in your NWF, as they were exported with light sources from Revit: Update: scroll to the bottom of the Autodesk Rendering, Lights pane and…
Why does this happen? Because the Bulk File Upgrader doesn’t work if it is trying to upgrade a Local and it can’t find a Central (I believe this is a Revit API thing)… and you may get this error:filen…
OneNote is becoming a bit of an obsession lately. Its one tantalising step closer to a paperless life. My latest project was to feed a large RSS reading list from Inoreader into OneNote (for offline u…
On latest R2 version of Revit 2015, with Navisworks 2015 SP3 and Navisworks Exporters R3, there remains a Navisworks export bug that affects some projects after upgrade from previous versions of Revit…
Teun De Vries shared an: “Excel document (download), with which you can build the mapping tables that Revit can use when importing from, or exporting to IFC. It is still a bèta. You can use it or even…
BIM Troublemaker has kindly shared his Dynamo tutorial dataset, including the presentation slideshow and related resources including Dynamo definitions. Thanks! Download it here Read the original post…
To change the System Type for the connected run, Tab-select until you have the System, then change the Type. You can also change the name here. To completely undefine pipes, tab-select the system, the…
UPDATE: If you want to register for the beta, go here http://www.archvision.com/entourageworkshop It allows for greater stylistic control of RPC elements, and facilitates a greater level of artistic s…
I’m pretty sure this is what Revit Skyscraper is going to look like when it gets released, and I’m guessing it will be called “Collaboration for Revit” or “Revit Collaboration” (sounds like an addin, …
Posts and articles about Level Of Development are so prevalent, and they can tend to be repetitive, or controversial, or somewhat tedious (or is it just me?) But recently I thought of a different way …