Autodesk Product Discontinuations for 2018
Bye, bye Showcase! Here are a few notes on Autodesk 2018 product discontinuations. I will add to these as more information becomes available.. Autodesk® Advance Concrete software has been discontinued…
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Driving the Visibility of a Nested, Nested Shared Family where Hosted in a Curtain Wall Panel Door
Now that is a very Revit blog title, for sure 🙂 So I had a nice old Curtain Wall Panel Door family, which had a nested ‘container’ Generic Model family… … in which I arrayed a shared, nested Door Pane…
Import Sketchup 2016-2017 SKP files to Revit
Revit natively supports importing Sketchup up to version 8. If you want to import ‘new’ Trimble Sketchup files, like some nice content you have download from 3D Warehouse, you have at least 2 differen…
AutoCAD Now Available For Free on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile
AutoCAD 360 that is… It has now been released as a UWP app for all Windows 10 devices. Check it out at:https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9wzdncrfjctk…
Learn How to Do Lighting Calculations in Revit from Dan Stine
Getting lighting to work in Revit can seem like one of those things that are ‘possible’, but ‘too hard for now…’ We are all busy, so it can be challenging to really dig down into some of these deeper …
Free Comprehensive Help Manual For Revizto With Embedded Videos and Step-by-Step Guides
Revizto completely transformed the way we manage and coordinate BIM projects, and I have posted about it several times before. I’m really pleased to share a very comprehensive PDF help document put to…
How to Access Your Local Backups of A360 Collaboration for Revit Projects
The internet is bleeding hard today due to the well-publicized Amazon S3 outages. Autodesk services are also severely affected. Collaboration for Revit (C4R) users may be wondering how to get access t…
Autodesk Revit Live 1.7 Released
Autodesk’s answer to realtime rendering from Revit is continuing its steady development. Now known as Autodesk Revit Live (formerly Autodesk LIVE), the new features include being able to choose visual…
Goodbye Autodesk Suites, Hello Industry Collections
In case you missed it: Autodesk Suites are gone, you can’t buy them officially anymore. Instead, you can buy into an Industry Collection. Here are products in each Collection, from the FAQ: And here i…
How Can You Integrate Manufacturer Content with Your Company BIM Library?
I’m wondering if 2017 will be the year that BIM content management stopped being hard 🙂 Maybe that’s going a bit far, but the fact is that there are some great content management tools out in the mark…