Is this a first for New Zealand? Wellington has seen a 3,500 tonne building on a train but taking a Building Ideas Show on the road is an unusual solution for a problem posed by New Zealand’s geography and population distribution. Faced with the challenge of presenting BIM
I just completed my installation Architectural Desktop 2007 at home. I started it up and it all worked fine until I tried to close a drawing. Hitting the X caused the processor to hit 100% and after about 30 seconds a fatal error. Thinking maybe it was a bad install
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Details for the New Zealand Autodesk 2007 Launch event are on-line. It changes every year, as the format is refined, but this post about the 2006 event shows it goes far beyond the average software launch. Register now at the Autodesk NZ site. Autodesk New Zealand Design Masters Quiz * When:
Space can represent many things as the image (right), from http://www.visualthesaurus.com shows. As Architectural Desktop & Building Systems evolved different requirements for measurement, display, grouping, and analysis led to a combination of objects, each with unique capabilities, simply to model and display 2D Area and 3D space;
RSS is a powerful thing. Checking the blog feeds last night I notice someone is planning to be in Auckland on May 9th for the Autodesk Design Masters Event (2007 Launch)… * Since confirmed, pencil it in your diary, details to follow…
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Beau Turner has links to two new CAD blogs. “Systems Blog” is for Autodesk Building Systems products (ABS now, RBS when it arrives) and the other, “How to grow technically and professional for the lazy drafter” :-) Will render for food...: Systems Blog. Will render for food...: Systems Blog
AutoCAD Architecture
Just found this tonight, David Butts of CADRE Systems has a blog focusing on the Architectural Desktop, Building Systems and Revit. The CADRE BSD Blog The CADRE BSD Blog
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There are new versions of the freebie DWF Viewer and DWF Writer applications. Many of the new viewer features are aimed at exploring 3D DWF models although improvements to operation, integration, and 2D DWF viewing haven’t been forgotten. I’ll start with the Viewer and it’s new 3D
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Autodesk have released a free viewer for AutoCAD DWG format files. Yes, you can finally the use the words “Autodesk”, “DWG”, “Viewer” and “Free” all in one sentence without the word “wish” Shaan, Between The Lines ~ AutoCAD Blog, has a post with all the details but the summary is: * It’
AutoCAD Architecture
Back in July I read a neat post at Richard Binnings Beside the Cursor... Blog, wrote a draft post referencing it and somehow didn’t post it. So here it is… Richard has tackled one of the more tedious tasks for anyone upgrading between various versions of ADT/ABS. Layer
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It won’t help you figure out “who done it” in the thriller you’re reading but I found an AutoCAD variable that will let you see the plot. If you have a plotter with a small on-board display, like our HP 800, AutoCAD’s recently acquired habit of sending
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The “Interactive Overview” demonstrates features added to Autodesk Building Systems. You can step through the “Production, Changes and Coordination” sections seeing the new concepts and commands applicable. Many have animated demos which is a great way to see these features in action. Look for the interactive overviews on the www.
