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Revit® Architecture Satisfaction Survey Results 2011

If you are part of the Revit® Customer Council and you undertook the “annual survey on your Satisfaction with the Revit® Architecture product from Autodesk”, then you probably have received the result…

2011-05-23 · Luke Johnson
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Project Vasari 2 released and new features

Once again, David Light has produced a post worth re-posting, detailing the new features in Vasari 2. Here is a link to David’s post: Revit: Project Vasari 2 released And here is a link to the Autodes…

2011-05-23 · Luke Johnson
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Come on! Who isnt pedalling?

Is what you might say if you were finding it hard to ride in this pedal powered bus. Yep, it is a “Fourteen-rider, pedal-powered vehicle”. What has this got to do with BIM? At least four things: its i…

2011-05-23 · Luke Johnson
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Free Room Renumber, Change Case, Space Update and GridSelect

“Free of charge you can try IMAGINiT Utilities for Revit Lite which includes four popular utilities: Room Renumber, Change Case, Space Update and GridSelect.” Register / download link Room Renumber Ea…

2011-05-23 · Luke Johnson
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RTC 2011 Australasia – my Friday schedule choices

Interoperability, parametric formulas, film and stage and conceptual massing – needless to say, I am extremely excited about my Friday Schedule choices! A summary of the items is shown below: Designin…

2011-05-20 · Luke Johnson
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123D free 3D solid modeling by Autodesk in beta

“The download is available at 123dapp.com and is around 400MB.”viaJTB World Blog: 123D free 3D solid modeling by Autodesk in beta: Direct Link to Download Page…

2011-05-20 · Luke Johnson
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Life science building in litigation – Why?

“It boils down to this – bad habits easily translate between CAD and BIM packages – and the tools and models are only as good as the information you put into it. IT’s like saying the car made me drive…

2011-05-19 · Luke Johnson
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Paint Tool enhancements in Revit 2012

“the paint tool will open the Materials dialog, where now you can visually preview materials and access material properties in order to modify a material. You can see your changes without closing the …

2011-05-19 · Luke Johnson
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How do you treat Revit?

Like Life…or Wife? Funny Twitter exchange below: davewlight David Light Am I always right?no but more often than not I am, why? I treat #revit like life, understand the problem, get facts, digest, bef…

2011-05-19 · Luke Johnson
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Popquiz 5 – answer

There were some good guesses to this popquiz, but none of them quite nailed it. Revit Solo said… Its the alignment line that shows up when your draging elements to a new position. And this is partly t…

2011-05-19 · Luke Johnson