Why a hosted blog? TypePad Support Rules!
I had a layout problem with one of my blogs and must post about the excellent support response from TypePad . They found a tag error in some of my posts, of my making, but the actual problem turned...
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Avatech's Revit Utilities
Kudos to Avatech for sharing these free Revit utilies! CAD Application Development: Avatech's Revit Utilities We're taking four relatively simple Revit applications that we developed to support...
See what parametric modeling looked like in 1962...
Tomislav does it again with this brilliant look at parametric design and pen input circa 1962… BIMology: BLAST FROM THE PAST - (----- Architecture 1962-72) How much are you willing to pay for fo...
Visualizing Thermal Transfer in AutoCAD Architecture
Tomislav has a great post showing how ACA + Steady-state heat transfer analysis software can be cobined to help communcate design intent. BIMology: Visualizing Thermal Transfer Data in AutoCAD Ar...
Traffic Light Thought - 60, 70, 80 km/h on a clear day? I blame LTNZ!
It’s 9:00am on a clear fine day: It’s the motorway. The traffic is light, amazing for Auckland The speed limit is 100 km/h So why are the few cars on the road dawdling along, like mindl...
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Curved text in AutoCAD?
I got an email from a reader with the question; “Do you know if there is a way to wrap text around a curve in AutoCad MEP?” I haven’t looked at how you’d achieve it in a AutoCAD MEP label but...
Names...
A The Warehouse Group supplier made the paper today… Sideswipe: Tuesday - 13 Nov 2007 - Sideswipe - New Zealand Herald Strange business names: John Christiansen of Mt Albert has always wondered w...
Moving Projects in AutoCAD Architecture
As part of a move to new CAD hardware I did some project file housekeeping. This required shifting 5GB of project files (store projects) and re-pathing them. Probably about 2,000 dwg files, lord kn...
Caring for your Photo Memory Cards
There are some great tips about caring for your memolry cards, especially the last one which might even help if you loose one! 13 Tips for Using and Caring for Memory Cards - digital-photography...
Wonky Layout <strike>Warning - Repairs in progress</strike> Fixed
With no warning, or changes from me, this blog has developed a wonky r/h side-bar which is covering part of the post area. Apologies for this, have tried every fix I can think of with no luck so hopin...
Evidence piracy and global warming are linked!
The evidence mounts for FSM’s claim that pirates and global warming are linked . Click through for a remarkable chart from Google Trends startling evidence - piracy vs global warming at Church o...
It's waiting time for The Warehouse...
The waiting game… It's waiting time for Warehouse ruling - Stuff.co.nz The submissions have been made, the arguments argued. Now the interested parties, investors and the public must wait to see whether the Commerce Commission's decision blocking either Foodstuffs or Woolworths from taking over