Autodesk Remote – currently North America only
What is it? Let’s call it in VNC for Autodesk software… It lets you drive Autodesk software installed on your primary computer from a remote computer or iPad for fast access to native design data over…
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Revit 2014 Web Update 1 – Deployment
via Gordon Price. Check out his great Revit deployment course on Udemy here. “with WU1 for 2014 out, and odd, I thought I would let you know I have tested it using the standard WU recipe, and it works…
BIM for FM – Educating Clients on the usefulness of BIM
Skip forward to page 11 of the following document:http://bim.psu.edu/Resources/Owner/BIM_Planning_Guide_for_Facility_Owners-Version_2.0.pdf Source:BIM Planning Heads-up:Updated Penn State BIM Planning…
Seven Tips that I tweeted but didn't post … until now
On a range of topics: Remove paint from all walls in project: 3D view, Wireframe, Isolate Walls, Remove Paint tool, hover mouse – *only* Painted walls highlight.— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) July 12,…
Compiling and using RevitLookup for Revit 2013 (and transferring single View Template using this free add-in)
This is using XP 64-bit with Revit 2013 Update 3, but similar principles will apply to other OS and software versions: Install Revit 2013 SDK if you don’t have it already, from here Install RevitAddin…
Transferring just one View Template from a Revit Project to another Project
I love it when an idea just works 🙂 Let’s say you have 100 view templates in a project, and you make a new one. You want to transfer only that new template to another project (not the other 100 View T…
Revit Journal File Parser – alpha version of web service now live
Try it out at:http://journalparser.para-analytics.com/ Some more info:http://blog.microsolresources.com/2013/05/29/the-revit-journal-parser-is-finally-here/…
Using Symbolic Links to handle a networked Material Resource scenario in Revit
You want to be able to network and directly reference material libraries and resources. You can do this using symbolic links in Windows 7 / 8, where the OS and applications think they are dealing with…
Using Linked Files and Parts to facilitate Material Option Studies
In the past, having multiple instances of a Linked RVT was quite problematic if you wanted to apply different materials to each instance. Parts have mostly solved that problem (thanks to Steve for rem…
IFC updates, including IFC4 for Revit 2014 UR1
2013: IFC Exporter for Revit 2013 (v2.12):http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aifcexporterforrevit%3aen IFC Export Alternate UI for Revit 2013 (v1.12)…