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Over at Virtual Built Technology, we have an aspirational view of our industry – that together, we can arrive at a set of best practice workflows for BIM and VDC projects. We have been developing and …
Some good tips on using the Revit Project Browser “Arrange By” setting in the Object Organizer in Showcase to make things a bit easier to manage… PDF download link:http://dccadd.com/bldg/wp-content/up…
Aaron Maller has been travelling a lot lately, but he still found the time to upload some of the recent presentations that he has delivered: Glasgow Revit Users Group- PDF. Glasgow Revit Users Group- …
I saw some information on this Project a while back – it looked very cool indeed. Essentially it allows you to record and replay a tutorial or workflow in extreme detail. For Autodesk products, it may…
CATIA (Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application) is a multi-platform CAD/CAM/CAE commercial software suite developed by the French company Dassault Systemes. Commonly referred to as a …
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…
Revit doesn’t want you to copy lines between Annotation and Model Families (see below) However, it can be done. This is the workflow to copy lines from Annotation to Model families: Copy lines from th…
Have you ever wanted to ‘re-issue’ or revise a large group of sheets such that they all receive the same, updated revision in the Revision Schedule? Lets say you have 100 sheets and these form the ‘Ap…
Many Revit users will encourage you to convert your AutoCAD details into Revit details. However, perhaps this isn’t a valid option for you (due to time constraints). You can find some good information…
Autodesk Impression 3 has been readily available for some time now. But would you like to know how to turn your Revit drawings into ‘sketchy’ looking plans? Its simple:1) Install Autodesk Impression 3…