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Along with all the usual statistics and reports, it features a two-page Case Study on the New Royal Adelaide Hospital – a project we are involved with coordinating here at VirtualBuilt. If you want to…
Here is something new and exciting… a RFA family that has a nested RVT, and the nested RVT has a linked nested DWG. If you close the RFA, edit the doubly nested DWG, and re-open the RFA = the DWG geom…
As Navisworks 2015 can already be downloaded and some others are posting about it, here are my top 4 new features: you can set the faceting factor for NWC export from Revit use quantity takeoff on you…
EDIT apparently some of these links are broken. I will look into this. In the meantime, you should use the Virtual Agent if you want to download. Revit 2015 direct download links:Onebox http://trial.a…
Autodesk® Application Manager is a cloud-centric software delivery solution that includes a desktop client component that is packaged and installs with all Microsoft Windows®-based Autodesk 2015 produ…
If you are struggling to find updates, hotfixes, patches and other resources for older Autodesk software, try this page: ftp://ftp.autodesk.com/ProdSupp/ There is a lot in here: This is one of the mos…
Un-coordinated BIM is like having all the ingredients of a delicious cake and eating each of them separately.— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) March 13, 2014 Struggling with imported DWG in Revit -> IFC …
They are significantly better in 2014, example shown below. Revit 2013 import of an ifcZIP Import same file to Revit 2014 – better geometry + category definition Import to Revit 2014, export as ifc 2×…
Let’s say something went wrong, and you have lost an NWC file that you need – but you don’t have access to the originating application or model. Do you have an NWD file that contains this NWC, prefera…
Creating lighting families for accurate rendering in Revit is challenging at best. This recent post by Dave Baldacchino is a bit of an exploration of ways you can try to “fix” manufacturer content and…