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Revit OpEd with Steve Stafford
Dept. of Subtle - Moving Fields in a Schedule
As you probably already know, moving schedule fields around is limited to a Move Up and Move Down button in the Schedule properties dialog. A schedule with many fields has a list longer than the space in the dialog allows for. Revit introduces a vertical scroll bar to help us out. The list doesn't follow the movement of a field as you move it up and down though which means you lose track of where it is as soon as you raise it above the top of the displayed list or drop it below the bottom of the...
Being Civil
If you haven’t checked this out from the Autodesk Labs site, you should go get it now! http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/acad_perf_mon/ This little gadget runs on your desktop and will let you know the level of virtual memory used. For more memory-related posts......
From the Ground Up
Using Surface Boundaries for Grading Tasks - Tip and Trick
Its like catching a bus sometimes, you wait for one and three come at the same time! Anyway, carrying on from the last two tips this week, lets look on how to use those boundaries for grading tasks also. I......
Mod the Machine
There was a question on the Autodesk Inventor Customization newsgroup this morning that caught my interest. The question was about creating a report, (in their case editing a column in the BOM), that lists all of the balloons in a......
Maya Station
I haven't posted in a while, and I thought it was about time I did. I just got back from a brief stay in Warsaw, Poland and I'm currently working my way through the Turtle tutorials (you may have read about Autodesk's acquisition of Illuminate Labs ? ). I could tell you about Warsaw (great city) but news about Turtle is probably more appropriate.... Here are some links I wanted to share: www.illuminatelabs.com/products/turtle www.illuminatelabs.com/support/tutorial-folderblog.illuminatelabs.com forum.illuminatelabs.com...
AutoCAD Insider
This morning Autodesk announced the return of AutoCAD software to the Mac platform. It takes full advantage of the Mac OS X platform, with an intuitive, graphical user interface that makes it easy to bring your ideas to life. And......
GIS Exchange
The built in background maps that are available in 2011 are great (they let you very simply use Google, Yahoo, or Bing vector and/or raster layers as backdrops). However, you may have noticed that zooming all the way to your MapGuide site doesn't get you quite as close as in......
In the Pipes
More Getting Started with AutoCAD Plant 3D Videos!
With the help of my expert User Assistance team, we have completed and posted Getting Started Videos for AutoCAD Plant 3D 2011. The existing videos and 12 new ones can be viewed at any of the following addresses: From the......
The MEP CAD Engineer
How do get the #$%#@$ Revit drawings to look right....Lineweights and Object Styles!
I'm an old school kind of guy - I started in the "chalk on a rock" days where we were putting ink on mylar. In those days, you had to know everything...before you put the pen to paper. AutoCAD, for how much I love it, made us a bit lazy, since we could make all kinds of changes quickly. Even getting the documents to look right has a couple of ways to do it (CTB vs STB, layer colors mean a specific penweight - ever get into a fist fight about this?).Now Revit comes along a while back, and all of our...
Revit MEP
NIBCO and CADworks Partner to Deliver High-Quality BIM Content to AEC Firms
From: http://pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=460131&Itemid=33 NIBCO and CADworks Partner to Deliver High-Quality BIM Content to AEC Firms NIBCO and CADworks, a leading Autodesk® Revit® content-solutions provider, have collaborated to provide NIBCO® specified valves to the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) community through the Autodesk® Seek Library (http://seek.autodesk.com) (type 'NIBCO' in the search bar for full product listing). "NIBCO takes an active...
Controlling the Machine
Controlling the Machine is no longer being updated. Don't worry, though, you can still follow Nate Holt at his new blog, AutoCAD Electrical Etcetera. You'll find it at http://nateholt.wordpress.com. Or you subscribe to his feed to get his latest words of wisdom automatically: http://nateholt.wordpress.com/feed/. You also can continue to view the Controlling Machine archives for Nate's AutoCAD Electrical tips and tricks....
In the Machine
We are moving the In the Machine blog to the following location. inthemachine-autodesk.typepad.com/ You can also find the new RSS location here. Subscribe...
Between the Walls
AutoCAD Architecture 2010 and AutoCAD MEP 2010 Update 2 Released
Autodesk has released Update 2 for AutoCAD Architecture 2010 and AutoCAD MEP 2010. http://bit.ly/d3HfrA & http://bit.ly/9ApjyI...
