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What is your favourite image editing program?

Some of you may be surprised to know that Windows Photo Viewer and Office Picture Manager are not the only ways to view and edit image files 🙂 Here are three of my favourites: 1) Irfanview has been up…

2012-11-13 · Luke Johnson
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Free People and Tree images to add to your Revit renders

EDIT: The free content at vyonyx has been moved to http://www.gobotree.com/ Are you getting tired of using the same RPC people and trees in all your Revit renders? Maybe you should try adding some of …

2012-06-21 · Luke Johnson
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Automated Google Earth 3D building creation

Looks like the BIM (model) of the Earth is going to be built by computers, not people: Google is using a new technology to automatically generate 3D buildings from 45-degree angle aerial photography m…

2012-06-06 · Luke Johnson
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Resizing and correcting 'warped' images in Revit

Let’s say you have imported an image of an existing floor plan into a Revit view, but it doesn’t quite look right. When you scale the image, it appears to be warped in either the ‘X’ or ‘Y’ direction.…

2009-09-23 · Luke Johnson
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Printing crashes Revit with high resolution images

So, you try and print a view with an image in it, and Revit 2010 just decides to crash…and you can’t figure it out! Well, Revit wants you to choose ‘Raster’ instead of ‘Vector’ under the ‘Print’ dialo…

2009-04-22 · Luke Johnson
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How do I get at those images!

So, someone has inserted images into your file, and you can’t save them out! Sure, you can go to File – Raster Images, but that doesn’t really help. Try this: The answer is simply to ‘export’ the view…

2008-12-12 · Luke Johnson