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New Revit Add-Ons blog

Here is a link to a new blog by Tim Grimm. Each post features a new Revit add-in: some free, and some commercial. Check it out: Revit Add-Ons I made a bit of a list of free Revit add-ins myself a whil…

2012-03-22 · Luke Johnson
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In-place and Component families of Stair and Railing Category

Here is a little gift to all my readers. The link below allows you to download a 2012 version RVT project that contains In-place and Component versions of families that are of the Category ‘Stairs’ an…

2012-03-21 · Luke Johnson
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Python for Energy Modelers – Post-processing

This post looks at the post-processing side of the energy modeling workflow. Often, a spreadsheet tool like Excel is a first choice for many analysis tasks. This is great for simple cases, but if the …

2012-03-21 · Luke Johnson
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Free platform neutral BIM object library to be launched today

If you aren’t excited about a community sourced list of links to Revit content, then maybe you are interested in a platform-neutral library of … BIM objects? We are delighted to confirm that following…

2012-03-19 · Luke Johnson
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Sketchup Import app for AutoCAD

Revit users have been able to import SKP directly for many years … now AutoCAD gets an app for exactly that purpose: The SketchUp Import plug-in allows you to import a SketchUp file (*.skp) into an op…

2012-03-19 · Luke Johnson
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How many Revit flavors do you want in Revit 2013?

What could this tweet mean? Translated first sentence:Great news: soon only 1 flavor revit for all disciplines! via Twitter / @WimBremmer: Geweldig nieuws: straks no … EDIT added: Translated: A # Revi…

2012-03-19 · Luke Johnson