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Luke Johnson

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COINS Auto-Section Box updated! (December 2013)

Arguably the most useful free add-in for Revit, there are some great new features – the one that particularly grabbed my eye was the automatic alignment and rotation of section boxes to certain elemen…

2013-12-11 · Luke Johnson
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Why Viewing BIM After Dark will be Worth It for You

I’m honest enough to admit that Revit has the unfortunate reputation as a tool that is “bad” for presentation. Happily, BIM After Dark aims to correct that – by making all of us better at using Revit …

2013-12-10 · Luke Johnson
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Auditing and Comparing Model Groups in Revit 2014

I have been searching for a quick and easy way to compare exclusions between Group instances – and nothing really exists at this point. So, I have developed a method to do this by using Revit and some…

2013-12-10 · Luke Johnson
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Take the Guesswork out of Scaling an Image in Revit

After inserting an image in Revit, sometimes the X and Y (Raster Image Width and Height parameters) values of the image are somewhat “warped” and need to be adjusted to match your model background. I …

2013-12-09 · Luke Johnson
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AroCLEAN available for Free (French)

UPDATE: most of the links seem to be dead now… here is latest from archive.org: What is it? It is essentially a cleanup utility for Revit backup files. AroCLEAN offers to clean these files backups and…

2013-12-09 · Luke Johnson
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How Developers can Gain Access to the Autodesk REST API

Autodesk offers several different browser-based user interfaces for different reality capture scenarios.They all use the same underlying ReCap REST API.You need a special developer key to make use of …

2013-12-09 · Luke Johnson
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Free Ebooks and Resources from CADLearning

Go to this link to download free resources / ebooks:on Itunes Other direct links to free items:http://www.cadlearning.com/products/ebooks/autocad-2014-new-features/http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/real…

2013-12-05 · Luke Johnson