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API tools – Good list of add-ons

Please have a look at the following post for a good list of where add-ons using the API are up to at the moment. http://cad-vs-bim.blogspot.com/2009/06/current-revit-tools-and-addons.html…

2009-06-24 · Luke Johnson
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Tutorials for Revit

Just found an informative site that covers most of the basics for Revit. If you have some staff members in your office who are just starting out, send them to:http://www.revit-tutorials.net/index.html…

2009-06-24 · Luke Johnson
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Publicizing your Blog (Get Noticed!)

So, I’m thinking I would like to start getting some more followers. I really appreciate you 3 guys (my current followers), really I do! I found a good site at: http://www.contentrobot.com/ways-to-get-…

2009-06-24 · Luke Johnson
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Revit wants good content

Autodesk Seek is nearly coming of age. It references content from this site. You might prefer the interface of the Smartbim site over that of Seek at the moment. http://smartbim.reedconstructiondata.c…

2009-06-24 · Luke Johnson
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Access folders FAST! (Folder Guide)

Check this out. Whether you use Revit or not, I challenge you to find a faster way to access your frequently used folders. However, since upgrading to Vista x64, I am struggling to find a good replace…

2009-06-23 · Luke Johnson
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Revit occasionally wants some outside help…

So I got a nice email from Avatech yesterday saying that I could download the full Avatech Utilities for Revit 2010 for free! If you are signed up with Avatech, you may have got a similar email. Other…

2009-06-23 · Luke Johnson
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Revit wants some SWEET HARDWARE!

We recently invested in some new workstations for our office. After doing some research, the following specification was settled on: Gigabyte X58 Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition Processor, 3.33 GHz …

2009-06-22 · Luke Johnson
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Revit wants AN INSPIRED USER!

So, what inspires you? In any field, there are those who work primarily for money, and those who work for passion (and many are somewhere in between 🙂 When it comes to the field of architecture, many …

2009-06-15 · Luke Johnson
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Printing crashes Revit with high resolution images

So, you try and print a view with an image in it, and Revit 2010 just decides to crash…and you can’t figure it out! Well, Revit wants you to choose ‘Raster’ instead of ‘Vector’ under the ‘Print’ dialo…

2009-04-22 · Luke Johnson
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How do I get at those images!

So, someone has inserted images into your file, and you can’t save them out! Sure, you can go to File – Raster Images, but that doesn’t really help. Try this: The answer is simply to ‘export’ the view…

2008-12-12 · Luke Johnson