New Zealand
I haven’t done the “Alps to Ocean” route shown here but have ridden many of these roads on various Adventure South tours. It’s only a short clip but brings back memories of awesome trips, road/lakeside lunches (and the bus carrying all your kit!). [youtube=http://www.youtube.
AutoCAD MEP
It takes something special to lure you into an underground bunker filled with sharks. After a photo at the door (easier to ID the remains?) it was quite a trek, stopping to observe the Penguin Colony, to the Antarctic Hut and an auditorium lined tanks of huge stingray & fish.
My Cars
Was it a display of extreme precision driving to get so close to a gate post it left a mark on the rear wheel arch, which could be buffed off without damage*, or extreme stupidity to be near it at all? * It was a fuzzy rough sawn soft pine post
Revit Structure
I’m a bit slow posting this but the Australian & New Zealand Revit Standards have been published. Details & download at: Australian & New Zealand Revit Standards | www.anzrs.org Well, it’s been a long time in coming, but ANZRS is finally here. It’s been a mammoth
If you are running AutoCAD 2012 based apps check out this hotfix. I haven’t seen it happen yet but the potential problem it fixes is rather alarming! Description of Problem: When a drawing is saved from within the Block Editor, the entire content of the drawing is sometimes lost
Science
It’s winter and, apart from doggy walks & very occasional bike rides, I tend to hibernate a bit. It’s a chance to catch up with the MySky recording back log (like all the Dr Whos since David Tennant left) and other inside stuff. However our amazingly technological world
CAD and BIM General
If you are on Twitter & want to chat CAD check out the Cadalyst Twitter Chats. The series kicks off with Autodesk Evangelist Lynn Allen followed by Solidworks blogger Josh “SolidSmack” Mings. The Cadalyst page has details on how to join in the fun. Cadalyst Dell-Sponsored Twitter Chats - http:
Recently I spent a day at SkyCity Convention Centre with a bunch of other CAD/BIM users for the AEC Systems NZ Technology Solutions Day. I couldn’t see everything as after a few shared sessions the day split into tracks covering Civil, AEC and Manufacturing. It was a little
AutoCAD Architecture
I thought I’d get to 2012 before installing these but found they fixed two problems I have noticed: * Sometimes editing sheet properties in a project would cause a crash to desktop. * Our MEP user found Export to AutoCAD could result in out of scale blocks (seemed to be older
I use MindManager Map Marker groups to mark topics (E.G. CAD platform in the map below). I was unaware you could copy/past them between maps until I saw a recent post on the Mindjet Blog: Quick Tip - Copy & Paste Marker Groups | The Mindjet Blog When creating
3ds Max
A couple of weeks back I showed the scene below in a presentation on “bImformation modelling” for the Auckland Revit User Group. It was created with Autodesk Labs Project Photofly technology which assembles a collection of 2D digital camera images into a 3D spatial arrangement then generates a 3D point
Auckland
I’ve been trying the TOMTOM traffic and finding it pretty useful but when the nice lady says: “The delay on your route is nineteen minutes, You are still on the quickest route” I wonder if ignorance actually is bliss
