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 taking up space and perhaps other resources. This app lets one uninstall many programs at […]
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 set for each new view, even if it was copied from another view. Select border […]
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 .zip Cut the image into six pieces One way to do it is to use https://www.imgonline.com.ua/eng/cut-photo-into-pieces.php […]
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 options will result in dramatically different effects. Once an initial scene is rendered, one can […]
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. Turns out that some apps that one might like maximum graphics performance from do not […]
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 rather heavy-duty and the price is pretty good. Autodesk has some Free DWG viewing software. Last […]
Dynamo Videos
At AU:http://au.autodesk.com/au-online/classes-on-demand/search?full-text=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
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 called “Project Tango Constructor” which will let one shoot a 3D mesh with a range […]
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 Revit. The “Application Manager” that installs with Revit 2015 may falsely indicate that the […]
Turning artwork to mesh for import to Revit
This is a tutorial on making meshes for the Mesh Import app, which lets us bring meshes into Revit’s project environment. This is one way of making a mesh. The free online app, Tinkercad, lets one import an SVG and turn it into a solid. Tutorial Find or make an image and turn it into SVG format. http://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-svg is […]