Revit MEP
A surprising omission from the Revit Dictionary?
An out of the box Revit MEP 2010 install on a new machine and look what is missing?
Revit MEP
Revit MEP
Simon’s BIM BS…
I’m kind of embarrassed I hadn’t blogged about this before, so here ‘tis now. Simon is a local Revit Guru, who will be speaking at AU currently devoted to getting the Building Services world to stop drawing lines. This recent post on Revit 2010s network license timeout foibles
Revit MEP
A blog free weekend, thanks to Revit MEP 2010 and a slow connection
I had a "computing light" weekend thanks to starting a Revit MEP 2010 install at 09:45 on Friday. It was on my own machine but I spent the day working on email and a presentation on another one. At ti...
AutoCAD Architecture
New Zealand Autodesk Solutions Day 2009 (2010 Product Launch)
I'll be at the Auckland June 4th event, see you there! Here's the blurb: The Autodesk Solutions Day 2009 is aimed at professionals' involved in the design, construction and management of government and commercial projects within the Building, Civil, Geospatial and Manufacturing market place. This
3ds Max
Max and the Revits arrive, it's 2010 for real
Today's delivery completed my set of "Twenty Tens". The arrival of Max (last week) and the Revit Architecture/MEP Series (today) mean it's time to think about building new deployments. As that will al...
AutoCAD
I LOVE "THE RIBBON", do you?
I'm going to be writing about some "recently ribboned" applications in the next few weeks, some better than others. Before that I have decided to set out how I feel about a variety of "already ribbone...
AutoCAD Architecture
The Revit 2010 Ribbon Development Process
Kudos to the Revit Factory for sharing the process which went into a, much needed, overhaul of the Revit User Interface for 2010. Overall I think the ribbon is a huge step forward and working across s...
Revit Architecture
Inside the Revit Factory
Welcome to a new Autodesk blog about what, will probably be, the most talked about change in Revit 2010: Inside the Factory Welcome to Inside the Factory – a blog about designing the Revit user e...
Revit MEP
What does a grey tick mean in a Revit MEP Schedule?
I found a strange behaviour in a Revit MEP* Space Schedule today. When I miss-clicked in the column "Occupiable", didn't hit the tick-box, subsequent edits showed a "grey out" state and the change was...
Revit Architecture
Announcing the best Revit API Blog in Whitianga!*
A Whitianga Reviteer has launched a new blog exploring the Revit API and other topics. I've subscribed look forward to future posts if he can drag himself away from the beach (featured in the first po...
AutoCAD MEP
The MEP CAD Engineer blogs
Beth introduced me to a new'ish MEP blog by David Butts. The first few posts cover the long history of Autodesk BIM/MEP and one has the best explanation of the convoluted marketing used for ADT/ACA/AM...
Revit MEP
Revit MEP 2009 Required Reading & Viewing
I've been working with Revit MEP recently getting my head around the new linked room/space/zone work-flow process and energy analysis. Part of that is for MEP use, as intended, but also to see how wel...