Revit MEP and CADworks – Online Presentation
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I received an invitation to a presentation of the new piping productivity pack that CADworks has released. Here’s a little bit of what the email said:
…snipToday, CADworks® Content Management Service for Revit® MEP allows engineers to effectively achieve full participation in existing BIM promises [...]
File Size – A Red Herring?
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Every now and then I read a post on a blog or user forum advocating various techniques to reduce a Revit project’s file size. Is file size alone a serious concern or measure of a successful project? I’ve heard of people insisting on a maximum [...]
AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD WS for iOS Devices Announced by Autodesk
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AutoCAD for Mac Built for Mac OS X
Yes, a native Mac AutoCAD application utilizing the Mac experience, but still being the tried and true AutoCAD. Now AutoCAD users have a choice of two great platforms Windows and Mac [...]
Display Plot Style in AutoCAD Layout
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I received the following question today while in my hotel room in LA and wanted to write a blog post with images to make the solution more clear, and perhaps assist others with the same question.
“My background in paper space is white with color [...]
New Autodesk Product Support Pages
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Visit the new AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor and other pages. They are available in English now, with additional languages coming.
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Dept. of Echo – Ceiling Tool Gets a Bit Smarter
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In all previous releases Revit was a bit too accommodating because it would let users put multiple ceilings within the same boundary without complaining about the redundancy. Obviously some parts of a building use multiple ceilings so they need to be [...]
Revit Technology Conference 2011 – USA
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I’ve mentioned the Revit Technology Conference before but now that a little bit more has been sorted out I’m writing again. The location will be the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach (Orange County California) and the dates are set for Thursday through Saturday, June 23-25, 2011. So [...]
Third Party Applications – Revit App
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I’ve been following Bruce’s Revit App Blog for awhile now but failed to notice that they are offering some free applications. They just posted one that helps deal with getting rid of materials more efficiently. Regardless you might want to check them out.
The apps they [...]
32 Apps for iPhone and iPad
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Houston Neal, the Director of Marketing for Software Advice (Free Advice for Software Buyers) recently wrote an article after sifting through roughly 500 offerings for the AEC industry.
There are some interesting items in his list. I grabbed four pretty tool image captures below: (left to [...]
Working With AutoCAD Sub Objects in 2D
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If you work intensively in AutoCAD 3D modeling, you probably already familiar with sub object. You can modify objects quickly and easily using vertexes. Gizmo in AutoCAD is very helpful. It is very easy to create 3D models in AutoCAD now. But have [...]