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Working With Revit 2019 Advanced Materials
The Revit renderer got an upgrade in version 2019. There are a bunch of new appearance parameters available. The 2008-2018 Materials are now called “Legacy Appearance Assets” in Revit jargon. Let’s Try To Figure This Out Make a scene, starting…
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Free(ish) Software For the AEC Professional
Here is some software that I like to use on any computer I am using: Bulk Crap Uninstaller Batch uninstall Windows apps — even on a new install. If I’m not using OneDrive, Candy Crush, Xbox, etc. I don’t really want them…
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How To Make A Pano Tour From Revit
Make Camera View from where the center of the spherical rendering will be. I recommend 4 feet from floor for interiors. Test render, confirming lighting, materials, and exposure are correct. Up to Revit 2018, render settings Lighting & Background must be…
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Converting Revit Panorama Renderings to Equirectangular Projection
Whereas some Web viewers for pano and spherical images require equirectangular projection, but Revit pano cloud rendering makes cube mapping, here is a way to convert those renderings. Make pano rendering from Revit How to… Download your rendering(s)… Extract <image.png> from the…
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Lighting Revit Cloud Rendering Scenes
Autodesk Revit’s cloud rendering service has several settings for lighting scenes. It seems to use HDRI lighting skydomes. By default, it has Native, which has similar lighting to how the rendering will result with the desktop Revit app. Other lighting…
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Enabling NVIDIA Graphics Instead of Intel Integrated Graphics on a Laptop
On a new laptop that was advertised as good for gaming, there came a splendid GeForce 940MX graphics processor. I installed the Autodesk Live Viewer app and at first it ran just as slowly as on my two-year-old non-gaming laptop.…
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DWG Software
Just want to view a DWG quickly? I have found nothing better than DWG Viewer from Brava. (But the free version is being killed.) If you need editing and measuring, etc. DraftSight is free CAD software from Dassault. It requires registration, but it’s…
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Dynamo Videos
At AU: https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/search?query=dynamo Youtube from the last year: https://www.youtube.com/results?lclk=year&search_query=dynamo++revit&filters=video%2Cyear&search_sort=video_date_uploaded
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Project Tango Scanning to Revit
A couple of weeks ago, there was a Google Project Tango hackathon in Boston. Since we all got to use a Tango device, I thought I’d look into how it could be used with architecture software. There is a free app…
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Big Project Commandments
Last year I was working on a large, multi-phase, multi-discipline project at an architectural firm. These are some notes I took. Please consider this advice:Everybody, including people sending in RVTs from other disciplines, must have the same update release of…
