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Divider tools for an Array anytime

While editing a Group, you can’t create an Array. There are two workarounds: Make the array ‘outside the group’ and then Add it to the Group. This requires you to Finish Group, make Array, Edit Group,…

2011-12-09 · Luke Johnson
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Compressing PDF using free tools

Do you have some large format black and white PDF drawings that are taking up excessive space? Perhaps they contain multi-layered vector information that is clogging them up. You can easily make them …

2011-10-14 · Luke Johnson
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Free furniture families download

Andy Milburn has uploaded a nice little set of Furniture families: …Click here to DOWNLOADFURNITURE COLLECTION viaShades of Grey: COME SHOP WITH ME:…

2011-10-03 · Luke Johnson
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Free PDF Viewing programs

I have been using Foxit Reader for a number of years. It allowed me to print PDFs with a custom scale of 50%. In Australia, we often print A1 size drawings to A3 paper for in-office review, so Foxit w…

2011-08-31 · Luke Johnson
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Over 1300 Revit files for free download – Productspec

Looking for some good, free content? Check out ProductSpec. Its free, you don’t even have to register to download! Productspec | The National Building, Architecture, Design and Landscape Product Datab…

2011-08-26 · Luke Johnson
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RTC 2011 Reciprocal Resource free downloads

If you attended either RTC AUS or RTC USA this year, you can download content from BOTH conferences. Awesome! “We are pleased to offer the downloading of materials for both the Australasian and North …

2011-07-21 · Luke Johnson
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Free Revit Details

Over at ARCxl, you can download a bunch of Revit details for free. According to the website, these details were all created natively in Revit. The Terms of Use describes the proper way that these deta…

2011-07-21 · Luke Johnson
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A Free and Open Revit Standard – could it work?

Follow the discussion at http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23OpenRevStds if you want to get involved in this project on the Ground Floor. Or you can subscribe to http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=…

2011-07-08 · Luke Johnson