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Interesting post by Ben a while back on the impact of Revit view settings when exporting to Navisworks. In most cases, this is “logical” – if you can see it, it will get exported, but if you can’t see…
Check out the solution suggested by Andreas Dieckmann: “I ended up using one of Python’s abilities to handle lists which is called groupby() because I did not want my head to hurt thinking about how t…
Not all actions will be available in all circumstances… When performing a coordination review, you can specify how to handle each change in the current project. To specify an action for a change, clic…
John Flanagan details an interesting concept in a recent post – he shows how you can use a Basic Wall with two Glazing layers separated by a core layer to essentially model double glazing systems. You…
I’ve always felt that the Floor tool in Scan to BIM is a bit lacking – rather than analysing and deforming an existing Floor element, I want it to work like the Topo tool (just select a bunch of point…
Had an interesting challenge this week – we needed to restore some 20 year old CAD files from archive. Turns out we had no viable way to restore them from the physical tape, but we could get the old w…
Paolo has “managed to complete tools for conversion from internal units and metric (meters, centimeters and millimeters) for lengths, areas and volumes (LAV).” Download these and put them in C:Autodes…
“… different parts of a model can be viewed at a time by splitting the Scene View vertically and horizontally. The options can be accessed from the View > Scene View > Split View drop-down. …” from Sh…
We have come across a slightly annoying issue: someone modifies a Linked DWG file in AutoCAD, and upon reloading in Revit, the Import Scale will have been somehow automatically and incorrectly set to …
Read about it on the Help page:http://help.autodesk.com/view/ADSKFD/ENU/?guid=GUID-C5218E9E-5122-4720-B62D-A968F96A7D02 From Labs blog:“updated version of Falcon with an improved user interface for th…