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Dynamo 0.5.2 and daily builds/z

Read Zach’s post:http://buildz.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/dynamo-052-daily-builds-rtc-and-more.html Daily builds (unintentional pun?) of Dynamo are available for download at:http://dyn-builds-pub.s3-webs…

2013-07-10 · Luke Johnson
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Room Dimensions X by Y – 2 methods in Revit

Revit deals in realities. The reality is, many Rooms are not rectangular. So we can forgive vanilla Revit for not having a built in tool or method that could only really ‘guess’ at X and Y room dimens…

2013-07-10 · Luke Johnson
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eVox – a Revit Bill of Quantities add-in

Strangely enough, I recently came across two different BOQ methodologies for Revit – one is an addin, another is a cloud based solution. This post is about the addin, called eVox, by Luca Vocella. To …

2013-07-07 · Luke Johnson
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BIM and VDC tips for multi-disciplinary coordination

There is a lot of practical wisdom presented in this recent article by Gensler’s Jared Krieger. He recommends against “BIM execution plans as long as 50 pages, with page after page of information and …

2013-07-04 · Luke Johnson
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A little Revit deployment tip

“As an alternative to controlling Revit tools and analysis features using the Options dialog > User Interface tab, you can define the DisciplineOption setting in the Revit.ini file.” Use this link to …

2013-07-04 · Luke Johnson