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Let’s say you have a Generic Annotation family with about 60 different view states controlled by visibility Yes/No checkboxes. These visibility states are linked to Sheets, and the Generic Annotation …
We often work with consultants using Tekla Structures, but we only recently came across the issue of trying to import point clouds into Tekla. The officially recommended workflow is:Leica / Trimble sc…
Firstly, export the Viewpoints you want to rename to XML. Open the XML in Notepad++. Now we are going to use Search – Replace to append something to the view name in the XML file. Once we get the Find…
Daniel Gijsbers uses Notepad++ to do some quick editing and creation of similar Navisworks search sets: “Let’s create a couple of searchsets that will find the same parts but on different levels.” He …
Many of us were quite disturbed by the 2013 Revit Materials Editor. Aside from its usability (or lack thereof), it seems to be much slower than the 2012 Materials dialog. Until Revit 2014 comes around…