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From Michael Ruehr, download at: https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D6601245_87000438_296433 Sample slide: Original post: RevitworX: Collaboration and Work-sharing with MEP and Structure Consultants…
The rule is that Walls shorter than 6 feet (approximately 1.83 meters) are not shown as Cut (ie. thicker lines), even if they intersect the cut plane of the Plan View – they are shown in Projection UN…
Along with all the usual statistics and reports, it features a two-page Case Study on the New Royal Adelaide Hospital – a project we are involved with coordinating here at VirtualBuilt. If you want to…
Here is something new and exciting… a RFA family that has a nested RVT, and the nested RVT has a linked nested DWG. If you close the RFA, edit the doubly nested DWG, and re-open the RFA = the DWG geom…
As Navisworks 2015 can already be downloaded and some others are posting about it, here are my top 4 new features: you can set the faceting factor for NWC export from Revit use quantity takeoff on you…
EDIT apparently some of these links are broken. I will look into this. In the meantime, you should use the Virtual Agent if you want to download. Revit 2015 direct download links:Onebox http://trial.a…
Autodesk® Application Manager is a cloud-centric software delivery solution that includes a desktop client component that is packaged and installs with all Microsoft Windows®-based Autodesk 2015 produ…
If you are struggling to find updates, hotfixes, patches and other resources for older Autodesk software, try this page: ftp://ftp.autodesk.com/ProdSupp/ There is a lot in here: This is one of the mos…
Un-coordinated BIM is like having all the ingredients of a delicious cake and eating each of them separately.— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) March 13, 2014 Struggling with imported DWG in Revit -> IFC …
They are significantly better in 2014, example shown below. Revit 2013 import of an ifcZIP Import same file to Revit 2014 – better geometry + category definition Import to Revit 2014, export as ifc 2×…