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I posted recently about the excellent book, Mastering Revit Architecture 2011. If you wish to access and download the sample files, head over to the Sybex resource page for this book. http://www.sybex…
You should all know something about adaptive points by now. I will here describe how I recently used them to solve a modeling problem. Basically, I need to create a surface that was quite irregular – …
Great post over at RevitJobCaptain – it has links to lots of different sites that provide BIM components.…
A couple that I forgot to mention: AnVir Task Manager Free – includes some very handy ‘shortcuts’ that it adds to Windows dialog boxes Notepad++ – Notepad replacement Also, I recommend that you check …
As I go about my day-t0-day, I come across some very good free programs (some of which I have posted about before – see links at bottom). Most recently, I have come across the following free utilities…
RevitTV.com are offering a free ‘Paint’ plugin for Revit 2010. The features are: Import and automatically create Revit paint materials from existing AutoCAD Color Book (.acb) files. Search and filter …
There is some very handy BIM resources located on the Indiana University website at http://www.indiana.edu/~uao/iubim.html Among other things, you can download the IU BIM Guidelines and Standards for …
After trying many free PDF Writers over the years, I have found CutePDF Writer to be the best. In order to ensure you are producing the best PDF files you can (high quality while still keeping file si…
This will be old news for some of you, but if you head over to http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=97765&highlight=EDIT+KEYNOTE&page=4 you will find a link to http://www.emc2architects.com/revit_t…
Have you heard of Andekan? Well, they have released four new Revit Content Starter Packs. If you want to download a free sample, go to http://www.andekan.com/revit-family-free-sample…