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Cool new way to learn Revit! Check it out
"Did you know that the experts are taught to demo without showing the software's flaws. A skillful demo-er will skim over or Jedi-mind-trick “that’s not the tool you’re looking for” the difficult...
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The Navisworks of BIM websites
I'm sure you're all familiar with Autodesk Navisworks right, the software to collaborate all of your 3d models, despite original file format. Well now there's a website seeking to do the same thing,...
View ArticleRevit3D.com - BIMBoom Revitlution: Service Pack Update 1 - Autodesk® Revit®...
A new Service Pack Update is available for Revit 2010, Seems like some pretty important changes, none of the addressed issues have been a problem for me but they look serious! I'm installing it! Check...
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New Software allows Architects to generate early cost estimation from Revit...
Similar to Beck Technologies DProfiler software, which allows designers and even contractors a way to link a 3D model to RS Means estimating data, A new product, developed by Reed Construction Data,...
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Dangerous Revisions
Really? I mean come on, who would actually think that they should put a hole like this in the floor? More importantly, it's so odd, why didn't the contractor just pick up the phone and call the...
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Autodesk Officially Supports Mac Support
In case you hadn't heard, or noticed, Autodesk recently announced that it officially supports running Revit 2010 (and some other programs) on Mac's via Windows via bootcamp. I mean, we've been able to...
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Super Delete
Ever been in Revit and just hit the delete key on accident when there's nothing selected? Well hopefully you're not hitting delete on accident, but if you were to, you'd notice a large X that appears...
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Simple Windows-Revit tip
This is such a simple tip it's hardly worthy of a blog post, but it did take me a couple of years before it dawned on me that I could use it to speed up drafting in Revit, even if it's just by a hair....
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Spot Elevation Target Size
Here's a little Freebie, something I'm sure I've made a half dozen times because I keep forgetting where I put it (what safer place than the web, right?) It's a an annotation symbol, a simple...
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The Invsible Grid Dilemma
Rarely do I miss a feature from Autocad, but having the ability to create things that you want to see, but not print, has for some reason eluded the Revit wizards at Autodesk. In Autocad if you wanted...
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cONVERTcASE.nET
Recently it dawned on me that just because this blog is called the "Revit" blog doesn't mean that's the only thing I have to blog about! So today I just wanted to quickly share a handy little webtool...
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Estranged Views
Recently I was asked if there was an easy way to determine if there are views in the project that may have been overlooked... poor, lost estranged views. The problem was that so many folks had been...
View ArticleRevit 2013 Batch updater
Good to know where this is, in the case you need to upgrade a whole lot families to the new format, something I hope every Revit Manager is doing with new releases:From Revit Structure Learning...
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Trimble aquires Vico
Wow! This is kind of big news! First they buy Sketchup and now Vico too! I wonder what this means for the world of BIM? If they were to somehow combine the two then Revit might have a new adversary...
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Displaying only Detail Items
I was recently working on a project where we had the task of transferring "live" details over from an older project and it occurred to me that once upon a time I used to go into the Visibility/Graphic...
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Element ID's
What's in a name? In Revit, not much really (outside of your office naming conventions that is), but what does hold a lot of value is an Element's ID. Yep, in case you hadn't figured it out yet, your...
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Where'd my Mullions go?
This question came up yesterday, so I thought I'd make a blog post for any weary souls searching the interwebs for a similar answer... what happens if you try to make a Curtainwall (or storefront) and...
View ArticleSpecial Alt Characters
There's nothing better in life than shortcuts, I'm talking windows shortcuts of course, and I'm always amazed how many of them exist that I forget to use. Some work in Revit and some don't;...
View ArticleRevit: Differences between editing - LT v Full Revit
This is pretty cool! I hope they add this into Revit 2014. I have "EB" set up as my hot key to edit the boundary of just about anything but this is just a tiny bit simpler...Revit: Differences between...
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How to exactly place an odd angled Section Cut
A question recently came up about how to place a section cut that can align with model elements; in this case the user wanted to place a section that cut perfectly though the center landing of a curved...
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