Get a nice new certified CAD mobile workstation, put a trusted, much used, deployment of Autodesk AEC Collection Apps (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, Navisworks etc) on it and all appears fine until... * Go to open a small (26mb) Revit structural project file from Autodesk Construction Cloud and it takes 30-35
A quiet genius
Revit catches up to AutoCAD...
Autodesk 360
If you use Revit 2020 (yes) with BIM 360 Design (yes) and migrated projects (yes) with lots of families (yes) don’t delay installing this hotfix (which will be offered in the Autodesk Desktop App). It fixes a corruption which could result in data loss. Fixed an issue that resulted
Sam shares the story behind his creation, surely seen by every Revit user at some stage, the Revit sample house: Samuel Macalister - Architect and BIM Specialist and the Revit 2014 Sample House | labs.blogs.com
Cool Hardware
You think he'd* be more impressed, Revit 2019 running on a Surface Go! * Surface Pen and (small) dog for scale
When you just want to put something in the middle of two other things/points without the hassle of dimensioning and EQ constraining, arraying or whatever… A “Mid between 2 points” snap override would be handy.
BIM 360 revision announced
My Road To BIM
About twenty years ago I read a 'brain dump' from Jim Awe about the next generation of AEC design. It described a world of object design, model properties and display management that was realised in Architectural Desktop and, later, Revit. Today at Autodesk University he did it again
Autodesk 360
It was quite an impulsive decision which resulted in me attending Autodesk University 2017. I had been thinking about it for a while, but not seriously, and was browsing the session catalogue one evening when I saw: FDC128313 -- Quantum: A Next-Generation BIM Ecosystem – Jim Awe & Shiya Luo I
An Easter surprise ‘present’ from Autodesk!
Seriously, System requirements, click… sigh… A bug in the installer? The install completed successfully, hopefully the actual software is less buggy!