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Update: check out this page for the 64-bit Xvid codec I encountered a problem today related to walkthrough creation in Revit 2010 64 bit with Vista 64 bit. I was exporting a large walkthrough to uncom…
When using tools like Mirror or Offset, hold ‘Ctrl’ after triggering the command – this toggles the tick box in the Options bar. Very handy! From Revit OpEd. If you want to make sheets quickly, just u…
Just came across this search engine for PDF, DOC and PPT files. It is called http://www.osun.org/ For example, lets say you wanted to see what PDF files are available that include the words ‘ revit fa…
I’ll be the first to admit that the subject of this post was intended to stimulate your interest – but in my defense I did include question marks! Have a look at this link, and see if you can make sen…
I had to format and re-install Vista on a laptop over the holiday break. Given that it was an OEM version, and the original disks were not available, I was faced with a bit of a conundrum. How will I …
This is an aged care project that we here at Dimond Architects have been working on. Please see below before and after images of the Entry. BEFORE:AFTER: Check out our Project Gallery page.…
Check out the following page to revisit the report. You can download interviews in mp3 format to listen to at your leisure. In essence: “One of AIA’s 2009 Integrated Practice Discussion Group’s (IPDiG…
RevitTV.com are offering a free ‘Paint’ plugin for Revit 2010. The features are: Import and automatically create Revit paint materials from existing AutoCAD Color Book (.acb) files. Search and filter …
I had this great idea this morning – why can’t we do a ‘search by sketch’ of images or other data? In other words, you draw a small sketch of something, and then the search engine returns results that…
There is a great video on View Range by Paul Aubin at the link below here: http://www.screencast.com/t/eCJaIgaevE It is very well explained and I learned some things I had no idea about, like the ‘tol…