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As you know, Autodesk is now making software available as a ‘Download’ by default for Subscription customers – you won’t automatically receive a boxed version. However, if you still wish to receive a …
No doubt you issue many PDF files to consultants, Clients, Builders and the like. Why not add a URL link to your titleblock, so that anyone receiving your PDF files can jump directly to your webpage? …
I was interested in what I could find on Scribd to do with Revit – turns out there are some resources available. Have a look at some of the search results here:autodesk revit architecture essentials s…
Revit doesn’t want you to copy lines between Annotation and Model Families (see below) However, it can be done. This is the workflow to copy lines from Annotation to Model families: Copy lines from th…
Erik Egbertson over at Inside the Factory made a comment about modeling a Stealth Aircraft in a recent post, and it got me thinking. How would you go about it? Now, I’m sure it would be possible to do…
When you use the Join Geometry tool in Revit, you may notice that it sometimes just doesn’t seem to ‘work’. You do everything right, join the two adjacent surfaces – and there is still an ugly join li…
Occasionally you may find that the Finish Sketch and Cancel Sketch buttons disappear from the Ribbon. The easiest way to get out of this situation is to map a Keyboard Shortcut for these commands. You…
Revit wants you to understand it. It wants to be logical. Sometimes you need to give Revit a bit of a hand. You may need to take a few simple steps to make Revit more understandable. David Light has s…
“Ribbon Hero currently works with Word, PowerPoint, and Excel (both 32/64 Bit) and it is only limited to Version 2007 and 2010 only. Once it is installed, there is a tiny green Ribbon Hero icon added …
There is a very cool site at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ Fully free software is made available daily. If you are interested in keeping an accurate record of time spent on projects, have a look at…