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You may have seen the “extents greater than 20 miles (33km)” warning in Revit before: Extents greater than 20 miles (33km) I have previously posted about ways to clean up DWG files, best and worst pra…
An interesting but sometimes blunt process that happens in firms is ‘ranking’ their Revit users by proficiency. There are various reasons to do this, and some of them make sense. In an ideal world, al…
There have been different ways of accomplishing this over the years. Now, with Dynamo, I would use this simple two step process: Create a unique type for each Planting or Entourage element (as Height …
Under-slab insulation (fitted or fixed below a concrete slab) is a legitimate coordination item. Typically it is installed first on site, so other trades and services must fit in around it. This means…
Archvision have a new beta 3D RPC creator service available. You can upload a 3D file and the service will generate a 3D RPC. Place this in the correct location, and you can use that RPC directly in R…
BIM documents and files are often linked into each other, such as consultant links in a contractor Revit model, or plain NWCs appended to a master NWF Federated coordination file. In each case, the BI…
As usual, these will typically be trial links. You will need appropriate serial numbers to activate, obtained from Autodesk. AUTODESK 2018 DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS AutoCAD 2018 English 32 bit English 64 …
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I’ve had a mixed experience using the Nvidia GTX 980 card in Navisworks and Revit, but I have one particular tip that helped in Navisworks 2017: Turn OFF CPU Occlusion Culling My CPU is an i7-6700K th…