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Interesting reading at: Keeping it Real | LinkedIn Some big players weigh in, including David Conant, Greg Demchak and David Baldacchino. Associated blog post: practical BIM: BIM is not so Real after …
This post was prompted by this from Darren Snook. Firstly, let’s see actual pi to a decent level of precision:3.1415926535897932384626433 Can Revit handle high precision pi calculations? As a test, le…
Thanks to one of our readers, we have a solution for the schedule precision problem described here. The comment below the lines gives the formula to convert an Area into a rounded number in a schedule…
The problem – even when you use Rounding (by changing precision settings in the schedule), the totals are still calculated from the most accurate measurement Revit has available. So, for 3 areas of 4.…
Steve made a few interesting points today about Revit and DWG (Import) extents. I previously posted about Revit accuracy and precision here. However, did you notice this new setting when importing a D…
Do you ever struggle with lines jumping around at extreme zoom levels, or weird numbers appearing when you are using many decimal points in your dimensions (like 1000.0000034)? This may be why: Revit …
For some of you, this will be old news. However, it is a very important yet not very well known procedure. How do you accurately rotate an existing section view accurately? Here are the steps: Draw a …
Let’s say you have AutoCAD file of unknown origin, and it has some wacky or imprecise units (like the distance between two walls is 8250.092234897). What you need to do is reduce the precision, such t…