Revit Technology Conference North America 2014

You might notice a little image on the top right of my blog for Revit Technology Conference North America 2014. My advice to you is, just go to this top BIM conference. Happily SolidCAD, the company I work for, agrees with this and will be sending me this year. I will also be joined by other members of the Ontario Revit Users Group who hope to bring back some BIM wisdom to Ontario. Keep an eye on this blog for updates on my journey to RTC NA...

Building Design Suite 2014 Unistaller

Righting a wrong is always good. In this case, for the Autodesk 2014 suites, Autodesk has provided an uninstall tool. I'm running it right now after mistakenly installing standalone versions when I should have installed network versions. As opposed to spending an entire day hunting down files in various and sundry locations. But we will still have to do that for previous versions. Thank you Autodesk for righting a wrong, now please provide us an uninstall tool for previous suites versions. This tool will uninstall AutoCAD(not Revit) 2013 based suites.

What Revit Wants: Extents of Revit 2013 Railings bug - when no balus...

What Revit Wants: Extents of Revit 2013 Railings bug - when no balus...: Basically, when all the balusters are removed from a Railing definition in Revit 2013, I have observed that the 'flip control' moves...

Bring Plant 3D into Revit

If you are trying to integrate 3D information from Autodesk Plant 3D into Revit use the following method.

1. Open Plant 3D file (in Plant 3D, of course)
2. In the command line type: exporttoautocad

You should get a clean result like this when the file is imported into Revit.

 As opposed to something like the image below which was 'saved as' (not exported).

Revit OpEd: What is Revit and BIM Resource

Revit OpEd: What is Revit and BIM Resource: Alex Gore and his firm F9 Productions have created, as part of their company website, a resource for people that are just getting started ...