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Have you ever wondered how people match real world camera movement (such as from an aerial fly over) with a 3D virtual model? Enter Autodesk MatchMover, included in various Autodesk Suites. It essenti…
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AutoCAD 2015 – This version has the ability to remove the stamp altogether if a Save is performed. Once a file is saved in 2015, it can be sent to users on earlier versions, and the stamp will no long…
Firstly, export the Viewpoints you want to rename to XML. Open the XML in Notepad++. Now we are going to use Search – Replace to append something to the view name in the XML file. Once we get the Find…
If you have subscription and account access, try this link and use your login: Autodesk – Account It allows you to quickly view your Cloud Credits, the services that you qualify for, and it also provi…
You have less than one month to try the cloud based Daylighting Analysis before it expires on 30 April. More info is at:http://autodesk.typepad.com/bpa/2014/03/another-update-of-light-analysis-for-rev…
For years, Architects and in some cases Engineers have seen their project involvement slowly diminish as new niche disciplines take over parts of the project delivery process. Once upon a time, an Arc…
Ryan Schultz is working on Revit–>IFC–>Revit translations, and he has created a open source page as a focus for test and sample files. Here is the link: https://github.com/theoryshaw/IFC_Roundtrip Int…
Download PAS 1192-3 Specification for information management for the operational phase of assets using building information modelling (BIM) viahttps://twitter.com/BIMgcs/status/450705164635471873 Dire…
In a somewhat unexpected post, landarchBIM has described a method of inferring the movement of a Reference Plane that is driven by an angle parameter. This probably falls outside of the “best practice…