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Point Cloud Extension coming for 3dsMax 2014

“new ability to import and visualize massive datasets captured from reality as point clouds. If you are a modeler, you can view point clouds in true color in the 3ds Max viewport, interactively adjust…

2013-08-23 · Luke Johnson
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LOD Specification – 2013 version

EDIT Article about this here Its all over the Twitterverse and Blogosphere, but the magnitude of this document still requires a post here. Download a copy of the August 22, 2013 version of LOD Specifi…

2013-08-22 · Luke Johnson
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Revit 2013 – Hotfix for Spot Elevations

” improves product instability when inserting Spot Elevations within Sections.”I tweeted this last night, but if you don’t follow me, here are the links: Revit2013_SpotElev_Hotfix.zip (zip – 14553Kb) …

2013-08-22 · Luke Johnson
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Paint colours – adsklib for download

Dunn Edwards have provided an adsklib file for download that matches their paint colours to Revit materials. I previously posted about Lysaght adsklib way back in 2011:What Revit Wants: Lysaght Bluesc…

2013-08-21 · Luke Johnson
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Material Graphics Surface Pattern vs Realistic View

Ever noticed how the Graphic Surface Pattern of a Material will override a Walls surface in a Realistic (ie. materiality / render check) view, but not the edges? Firstly, I don’t think Graphics values…

2013-08-21 · Luke Johnson
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Revit 2013 – DWG export Color ID global change bug

I thought I got in a loop today: Export DWG Expand All Select all rows Try to delete the number in the Color ID box This warning will come up: You have to press Close for every selected row (could be …

2013-08-20 · Luke Johnson
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Revit Basics with Robert Yori

Open embedded content: player.vimeo.com viaRevit Hands On: Back to Basics in Revit User Community on Vimeo…

2013-08-20 · Luke Johnson
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Creating an Excel auto-save backup task

Ever pressed Cancel or No when prompted to save an Excel spreadsheet? Lost your work? How about this backup task… it basically copies Excel backup files to another location so that Excel can’t delete …

2013-08-20 · Luke Johnson