Revit Architecture
A new Autodesk blog - The Revit Clinic - promises to help cure, or prevent, sick BIMs. I look forward to following Harlan's blog but wonder what he'd make of some of my Revit problems. Most are not Re...
AutoCAD
Autodesk’s AutoCAD 2009 based service packs, the “big” between release bug fixes, are out. This time they have been re-branded from Service Packs to Product Updates . What’s in a name, apart from c...
The Green Building Studio announcement was expected but I was surprised to see* news of the Ecotect acquisition . Apart from a couple of sessions at AU2007 I haven’t seen much of Ecotect. I haven’t us...
Revit Architecture
The Revit Technology Conference is happening in Sydney, late June. I attended the NZ event last year it was a great Revit focused “Mini Autodesk University”. It’s a chance to hear about the latest in...
Salesoft CAD Solutions had their “Autodesk 2009” launch today and the theme was “Breaking the Barriers”. After a brief introduction from Rich Sales, yes it’s really his name, there were sessions wh...
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...
I’ve spent today, and tomorrow, sitting in with our “Energy Team” who are training on Revit MEP Series. We currently use AutoCAD MEP but there is interest in the building analysis aspects of Revit MEP...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As it’s an evolution from “the drawing board” combining CAD/BIM software and Tablet PC seems natural. I wonder why it hasn’t been done by the major market players? In the early days hardware was a rea...
