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Have you ever exploded a SAT or DWG in the Family Environment, and then gone looking for the Visibility Settings ribbon button for one of the resulting freeform elements? Its not there: But, as you ca…
Yeah, Revit topo tools aren’t that great. Why don’t we try exporting to a sculpting tool like meshmixer, and see if we can make it work? Let’s start with a simple Revit toposurface. Export to Max by u…
meshmixer08 is available for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X…Windows(tested on Win7 x64) [meshmixer08 Win 32-bit] (Latest: October 26, 2012) [meshmixer08 Win 64-bit] (Latest: October 26, 2012) Ma…
I’ll admit it – I’m a bit excited about MeshMixer. I downloaded it today and was very pleased at how easy it is to sculpt things. A few years back, we worked on an aquarium project with another archit…
David Light recommends it in this Tweet: Freedom capabilities of #autocad 2012 are so cool, forms work very nicely with #revit & #vasari; & no i haven’t gone all soft on you 😉 via @davewlight David Li…