How to fix broken Russian Type Catalogs
There have been a few posts recently about how to fix Type Catalog errors. If you use Russian Revit (particularly Web Update 2), the following fix will be useful (the key part is changing the file enc…
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Some Photoshop Tips for enhancing Architectural Photographs
I’m sure many of you are very experienced Photoshop users, so I won’t bore you with too much detail. There are just two things I wanted to mention: If you have a photo that was taken in less-than-perf…
Create a multiboot USB pen drive inside Windows with YUMI
YUMI-0.0.4.0.exeSource Code How to Create a MultiBoot USB Flash Drive Run* YUMI-0.0.4.0.exe following the onscreen instructions Run the tool again to Add More ISOs/Distributions to your Drive Restart …
New Revit Forum – in German
Here is a link: http://forum.rug-dach.de/ Translated to English If you want to quickly search the major Revit forums, feel free to use my custom search tool.…
Revit Accuracy and Precision
Do you ever struggle with lines jumping around at extreme zoom levels, or weird numbers appearing when you are using many decimal points in your dimensions (like 1000.0000034)? This may be why: Revit …
Clean up your DWGs before Linking them
Great list of tips on cleaning up DWG files, including how to PURGE REGAPPS. Read more at:The CAD Setter Out Interestingly, one of the most important BIMandments, according to Twitter, is to never imp…
TinyTask – ultra lightweight macro recording tool
This little utility is VERY basic. It can basically can record mouse movement and clicks, and keyboard input. You can record a task, save it to a file, open an existing recording, and play. There are …
A feel good Twitter story
Do you ever have trouble installing Revit? DavidJnrAdjei David Jnr Adjei #Revit 2012 does not want to install on my PC. It never completes, Help? #Architecture 8 Jan lukeyjohnson Luke Johnson @ @David…
How to easily make an RSS feed from a Twitter search
Simply replace the following bolded text with whatever you desire: Hashtag search: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23YourSearch User mention search: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%4…
BIMandments on Twitter
An interesting discussion is starting on Twitter in relation to key principles or rules when using BIM and particularly Revit. Check it out:BIMandments This word is a mashup of ‘commandments’ and BIM …