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Interesting aberration that you could use to your advantage – reposted from SARUG: I had Sam override the visibility setting for the masked region and make it transparent, in the linked file, and then…
“In Revit, the default font is Arial, for example, is therefore the DWG file represent fonts in Arial.The “shxfontmap.txt” is located at:C: Users AppData Roaming Autodesk Revit Autodesk Revit 2013Firs…
I previously posted a way to generate PAT files from an exported DWG file. One of the comments to that post gives a great alternative method – so unique it actually made me smile. You may have noticed…
From IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog:We can add a modifier to the export dialog box for the items we want to adjust, make sure that you also do this to the sub-categories of the element also, and s…
Steve made a few interesting points today about Revit and DWG (Import) extents. I previously posted about Revit accuracy and precision here. However, did you notice this new setting when importing a D…
Oftentimes, you will want to flatten a DWG file before bringing it into Revit, so that Revit isn’t confused by all the Z-values… you can use FLATSHOT or the DXB plotter methods, as described below: Is…
This is not something you are going to need to do everyday, and probably less and less as PLT files become a thing of the past. But, if you ever do need to, here are two tools that may help: guthrie C…
DWG import and export (free)Currently, the best way to exchange DWG/DXF with SketchUp is to use SketchUp 7.1 & the DWG/DXF import plugin for SketchUp 7.1 (Free) As of now, both SketchUp version 7.1 an…
EDIT Keep in mind that if you import an SKP directly into Revit, it will create materials for each shading material as “Render Material xx-yy-zz” in the Material Library. You can check which is which …
Great list of tips on cleaning up DWG files, including how to PURGE REGAPPS. Read more at:The CAD Setter Out Interestingly, one of the most important BIMandments, according to Twitter, is to never imp…