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Every now and then, you come across a software product that makes complete and absolute sense. As a Revit professional, I have spent a lot of time learning how to use Revit: how to play by the rules, …
Design is a funny thing. The word itself carries a certain weight, it is somehow deliberate and exciting at the same time. Yet, so often design is let down by the poor translation or communication of …
If you view a lot of IFC files in Tekla BIMsight, you may find that the cache or storage folder fills up quite quickly. If this is in its default location of \%localappdata%\Tekla\Tekla BIMsight\ then…
TBP is a Tekla container format, and part of what it typically contains is the model data in IFC format. Just open the TBP in an archive viewer like 7-zip: Now you can see the folder structure inside …
Download a suitable image such as Android-x86 5.1 rc1.vdi from: Android x86 VM images for VMware and VirtualBox Attach it to a Linux image in VirtualBox, my settings below: Depending on your host hard…
Excited about this! Keep in mind that this only operates in a sandbox, testing environment… Check it out and download at: Revizto 4.0 Open Beta And you can discuss on the forum at: https://forum.reviz…
I love unique tools. In the BIM world, we are presented with a wide array of visualization software, each supposedly better than the last. But I am interested in something that has real power, that is…
If you are working on a live, shared, cloud Revizto project, you may wonder how to easily ‘replace’ the entire current model with a fresh version. Note 1: if you Overwrite model content in Revizto, th…
Archvision has a great reputation for providing quality Entourage RPC content and extensions to Revit, historically to assist you in creating more impressive presentation images and renderings. More r…
Tekla has issued an XML file containing preset IFC settings for export to Revit, specifically for Coordination. In some cases, this may already be available on your system, but in other regions you ma…