Time flies, it’s Autodesk 2009!
Autodesk have announced their “2009” product releases including AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture/MEP and Revit Architecture/MEP. While there is a lot to see in these products some of the announcements ma...
Revit Architecture
Revit and AutoCAD's Visual Styles - A SketchUp alternative?
I heard of Revit users experimenting with Google SketchUp for presentations in an attempt to get a more natural “conceptual look” than Revit allows. Many Revit users also have AutoCAD available so I t...
Weblogs
More bitten by the CAD blog bug...
Catching up, post AU, and I’ve found a few new blogs to follow: David Harrington’s ( CADDHELP – http://caddhelp.blogspot.com/ Dwayne Ellis’ A 3D Life – http://a3dlife.blogspot.com/ Trisha...
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...
Trigonometry, Revit Parameters and Lynn [last name withheld]
Aaron's post on math, trig and Revit reminded me of a recent conversation. I’d been working with Parameter formulas which meant stretching the memory back to fundamental math like trigonometry. It’s b...
Autodesk Patch Wednesday?
Microsoft have their “ Patch Tuesday ” but this Wednesday seems it was Autodesk’s turn. Guess who was about to build a new master CAD deployment but got distracted and ran out of time. Then he arri...
Revit Architecture
See you at the Auckland Revit Technology Conference 2007?
The Revit Technology Conference is coming to Auckland on Monday (27/08). If any readers are attending say hello to the fellow in the Warehouse ( blue store development ) shirt! Revit Technology C...
Some more BIM & Revit Resources
Here’s a couple of BIM Revit resources I’ve found recently: Revit 3D.com Gregory’s “ Revit Encyclopedia” of information
HOK Blog!
HOK have a couple of new(ish) blogs looking at buildingSMART (Building Information Model) and Green design. It’s great to see companies sharing their experience knowledge! HOK CAD Solutions - We...
Real world tales of Revit BIM’plementation
These articles share tips from the front line where BIM theory meets production reality: BIM Do's and Don'ts – Cadalyst Beau Turner* Joe Eichenseer (Avatech Solutions) offer some real-world insi...
Rev'irritations or Stupid questions of the day?
I know one click does the work of many as parametric magic ripples throughout the model but: Any way to get this state of the art application to realise I’m not running 800 x 600 display resolut...
Revitizing Details
JB has a great post on methods, benefits and perils of getting those old CAD details into Revit. Converting CAD Details To Revit Details: Just Do It...One way or another - Fear and Loathing In a...