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Here is a little gift to all my readers. The link below allows you to download a 2012 version RVT project that contains In-place and Component versions of families that are of the Category ‘Stairs’ an…
This post looks at the post-processing side of the energy modeling workflow. Often, a spreadsheet tool like Excel is a first choice for many analysis tasks. This is great for simple cases, but if the …
When a view is not a live view but references another view it doesn’t obey the “Hide at scales coarser than” rules, it will always display. viaReferenced Bubbles | BD Mackey Consulting | The Revit Gee…
If you aren’t excited about a community sourced list of links to Revit content, then maybe you are interested in a platform-neutral library of … BIM objects? We are delighted to confirm that following…
Revit users have been able to import SKP directly for many years … now AutoCAD gets an app for exactly that purpose: The SketchUp Import plug-in allows you to import a SketchUp file (*.skp) into an op…
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A very reasonable, interesting and intelligent post from Steve Stafford … here is a quote of my favourite part: Consider that Archicad would love it if we all woke up tomorrow and gave them credit for…
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Do you agree? Here is a more complete quote: One of the biggest practical obstacles to effective diffusion of BIM in the industry is the lack of data exchange standards and associated protocols. The I…
This is not something you are going to need to do everyday, and probably less and less as PLT files become a thing of the past. But, if you ever do need to, here are two tools that may help: guthrie C…