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Revit doesn’t like big numbers. There, I said it. So when dealing with ‘world’ coordinates in a point cloud, sometimes things just don’t work too well. I thought I had this all solved recently by usin…
I thought that most of this was ‘easy’ and solved now, but it was more of a challenge than I expected. I received a ASC file from a survey in XYZRGB format, which looks like this: Those XYZ values are…
Many of us use Tekla BIMsight or Solibri for IFC viewing, but there is another free option: FZK Viewer. It is just a 10mb download, unzip and go. It has a Walk tool like Navisworks for easy navigation…
We often have to deal with data that hasn’t always “lived” in our CAD, BIM or Revit world. Take a hand sketch, for example – how can you get that into a format that can easily be used in AutoCAD or Re…
You can convert major 3D File formats to Google Earth 4 format (KMZ) with ‘SOLA G2’. Supported 3D Formats Autodesk *.FBX (2006.11) 3D Studio *.3DS Wavefront *.OBJ Autodesk *.DXF Collada *.DAE Download…
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…
In Google Docs, you probably know that you can upload files and view them with the Google Docs Viewer. But did you know that Google Docs Viewer can display the following formats? Apple Pages (.PAGES) …
Sometimes you will have access to a PDF file, but not to the original DWG. Is there any way you can get the base vector data, such as lines and arcs, out of the PDF and back into a DWG? Yes, there is …
Let’s say you have AutoCAD file of unknown origin, and it has some wacky or imprecise units (like the distance between two walls is 8250.092234897). What you need to do is reduce the precision, such t…