Sometimes you can look at something for, literally, years without seeing the obvious. While using a 3D DWF (during a phone conversation) I gazed at the List, Thumbnail, Markups and Model panel and wondered, why doesn’t Revit have this? Why does a Building Information Model application only offer a
Retail Design
According to Outlook, today marked thirteen years since I joined The Warehouse Limited. Coincidentally, yesterday a question regarding the area of a long closed store had me ferreting through an old plan* (below left) which represented TWL store design at about that time. Since then we have evolved from 2D
Windows
Do you have a 32 bit Revit 2011 deployment which works fine until a machine where it fails with nothing more than this it the log; Time ~ Logon ~ Machine ~ Message 0:00:00 ~ robin1 ~ Deployment Started 0:01:00 ~ robin1 ~ Deployment Finished You could waste a lot of time investigating
Camtasia
The Revit Project Browser is great for bundling all the assets of a Revit Project into a single list. Unfortunately it’s “one view scroll, scroll scroll” interface can be tedious to document. If you want to use in a project standard or just share with collaborators (without sending the
AutoCAD Architecture
Revit Architecture
I guess if it’s on Twitter…! Below is our, rather lovely, view of the Auckland CBD from work. Next week I have the opportunity to go there and hear about the Autodesk 2011 releases. It couldn’t be much closer, for me, but if there isn’t an Autodesk
CAD and BIM General
Ok, that post did go live on April 1 and I admit thought there might have been more reaction to RobiNZ Revit Blog. It wasn’t really an April Fool as it wasn’t all false. I do now own AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite but firmly subscribe to picking the
Revit Architecture
Revit 2011 brings a mixture of platform and, yes again, User Interface changes. Some are small while others bring major, and welcome, changes to modelling and workflow when sharing files. I'll deal with the UI first as it think its the first change users will notice when switching
Occasionally I change the banner on this blog. Usually it’s just an excuse to show some photography but this month is different. The banner is completely new, the photo carefully chosen to mark the end of a long an winding road. It’s been, but doesn’t seem, a
It’s the time of year when Autodesk unleash new versions of their applications. I just finished watching a webcast announcing the AutoCAD, AEC, Manufacturing and Visualisation products. “With the release of these powerful applications, the 2011 Autodesk product line is truly the best-in-class,” said Autodesk President and Chief Executive
Writing about meeting Greg Arkin at Autodesk University (see BIM Bids Only!) I described his style as “BIM’vangelistic”. It seems some BIM’vangelism, combined with the gift of a domain name, worked for Scott! CADuzer becomes BIMuzer - thanks to Revit3D.com Well, I think my work is done
I must be getting old… Remember when AutoCAD came on a few floppy disks? Then a handful of CDs, or a DVD? I just finished building CAD application deployments that would require about 26,624 floppy disks. Admittedly it was AutoCAD Architecture/MEP, Revit Arch/MEP and 3DS Max (plus
