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Sketchy Lines In Revit
This is a useful feature, especially when one is trying to imply that one’s design is still in the conceptual stage. People often see things produced on computers and take them for the literal outcome. I have observed that sketchy…
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New Point Cloud Manipulation Videos Posted — ReCap / Revit / AutoCAD
ReCap demonstration with a mechanical room scan Revit and point clouds demonstration AutoCAD and point clouds demonstration See https://www.youtube.com/user/LTC3D
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Cleaning Up The Disks
Just found an open-source utility that maps out disk usage: WinDirStat <http://windirstat.info>You let it run and it shows an overview of all of your disk usage. It also lets you delete selected files — nice!The largest rectangles in the drive…
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Beware the Disjoin
When we do a Move command in Revit, on the Option Bar there is an option for Disjoin. this option stays as it was set for every Move and even stays set from session-to-session.When Move is done with Disjoin, it is…
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How to Get a Color From Your Screen into a Revit Material
Someone has shared a very nice color picker utility called Colorette, which was written in AutoHotKey. The app description is at http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic69559.html . GitHub https://github.com/Appifyer/Colorette/blob/master/Colorette.ahk . For an example of how to use Colorette with Revit, make an EXE from the AHK code and run it. Find a web…
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3D Detailing in Revit
Revit 101 June 13, 2011, 4pm We will explore views, sheets, details, and printing.Revit Learning Club June 13, 2011, 6:15pmThe inspiration is this roof detail from a website about keeping water out of a building:Here it is, interpreted in Revit:We can also examine methods of using keynotes, dimensions, notes,…
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Voids in un-hosted families can be used to cut objects in projects in Revit 2012
I mentioned and demonstrated the use of this feature tonight.A post on Revit’s Wikihelp site shows a good example. See http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/index.php?title=Revit/enu/Community/Tips_%26_Tricks/Modeling/Cut_with_unattached_family_instance_voidsIt also helpfully shows which categories can be cut.
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Art Gallery Walkthrough Video
Who wants to learn how to do this? It’s a walkthrough of how I imagine the Paula Rego Museum gallery might look like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN8X5QlOuq8
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Three Revit Tutorials About Topography
These videos can help you review some of the subjects covered tonight:YouTube – Easy Revit (2010) – 32.1 – Topography (Part One)YouTube – Easy Revit (2010) – 32.2 – Topography (Part Two)YouTube – Easy Revit (2010) – 32.3 – Topography…
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Section Boxes in perspective views
One can turn on a 3D Section Box in perspective views. It’s in the View’s Properties.A trick is then to use the View Cube to get an overall view, manipulate the Section Box’s extents, then use the Navigation Wheel’s Rewind to…
