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Back in March 2015, I posted a script that I had created to disable all Revit addins. That was put together in Powershell and was a pretty severe and somewhat ugly method to use. Happily, earlier this…
Manufacturers are really starting to get on board with Revit and create some interesting tools, like this one from SALDA. Basically, it connects their AHU selection software with a Revit addin that bu…
In Revit, we often get access to a lot of useful information early in the design stages. To start with, you might have an Area Plan or perhaps a Room layout with defined area allowances for specific s…
Check it out at: Improve the Quality and Productivity of Your Revit Modeling with This Powerful Toolkit Of particular interest are the CAD to RFA converter, Watermark Manager, and the powerful suite o…
Currently including: DB Link Steel Connections eTransmit Model Review Space Naming Utility Batch Print More information about these addins at: Help: Add-Ins for Revit…
The Case Apps were (are) great, but they are pretty hard to get now: One thing you might try is downloading this zip and running the Application Reference file. Turns out something is still alive out …
To try V-Ray for Revit public beta: 1) Create an account or login at chaosgroup.com, then 2) register here 3) wait Heads-up from Brent Heber… more details at http://www.v-ray.com/revit/…
I have posted about CADtoEarth before, but here is a quick 5 minute video using the latest version: Open embedded content: screencast.autodesk.com You can also import building models to Revit from Goo…
BIM breeds information. In many cases, we probably generate too much Bimformation. It can become difficult to manage and analyse all of it. When it comes to content specifically, Unifi have already pr…