I discovered this exact issue on my PC yesterday – but David Light has posted about it:
“you need to add the missing files by downloading US Metric Content.”
Month: May 2011
And it’s Disciple-Specific! 🙂
I guess I should be a good boy and correct the spelling mistake…
Here is the link:
API Dev Guide – WikiHelp
Yesterday I tutored two twelfth grade classes at a local high school in how to create and export walkthroughs in Revit Architecture 2011.
They had already modelled buildings in Revit as part of their classwork, and it was quite enjoyable to assist them in presenting their work.
One interesting anomaly came up during these sessions – the students were using good quality Mac workstations, running Bootcamp and Revit Architecture 2011. When modifying a walkthrough I use the Steering Wheel extensively, so it was quite frustrating when Shift+W suddenly failed to show the Steering Wheel!
How did we overcome this problem? There are two different ways to solve it:
- you can assign a keyboard shortcut to ‘Full Navigation Wheel’. This will work even if Shift + W does not, or
- Skip forward a few key frames, and then skip backward again. Try Shift + W. It will probably work now (one of the students discovered this).
Here at Dimond Architects, we are exploring a number of ways to deliver Revit training, both to students and to industry professionals. Feel free to contact us if you are interested.
Does this sound a bit like Revit’s history?
“A team of scrappy entrepreneurs, eking a living out of a bit of venture capital, working 80 hours a week will introduce something that is incredibly and overwhelmingly elegant in concept and use (even if a bit rough around the edges).”
“position yourself to acquire this new technology. Pull out the checkbook. Done. This solves the hiring process and getting new teams to gel together issue (they’ve likely been together for years)…an acquisition is fast and quick; what’s done is done.”
From
Arch | Tech: Please Give Me Another Chance! I Can Change!:
And to me, this is why Autodesk will succeed where Graphisoft and Bentley and those other BIM companies will fail. They just aren’t big enough to acquire all the nice new technology. Any thoughts?
“In your title block family, create horizontal and vertical grid lines, equally spacing the entire title block into modules, per your standards or preference. It is recommended that you create a different Object Style for these lines (Manage tab, Object Styles), to differentiate them from other annotation linework (Figure 2).”
” this grid has many advantages over the standard guide grid. Primarily, it allows for varied width versus height grid modules, and hence, it allows for graphical linework, such as boxing out detail views.”
Nice technique – copy revision clouds and then paste as detail lines…
The online Revit community can be a pretty fun place. And yes, I know that sounds nerdy.
My mate Gregory Arkin called me via long distance Skype the other day – it was great to have a chat with him! He has really been a stalwart member of the Revit community for a long time now. But it is still fun to tease him occasionally 🙂 I have beaten him to press a few times lately – usually because he is bound by certain rules (as a reseller), that I am not bound by. As you can see below, he does tend to react to some of the teasing and banter…(bolded by me)
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Luke posted about this a few days ago and only because his reseller, who will probably get in a lot of trouble for preleasing information, so let’s make this official.
http://bimboom.blogspot.com/2011/05/autodesk-is-giving-away-free-software.html
So, Luke, your technorati statistics mean nothing here. You may have the best blog in Porpoise Spit Australia, but here, in the real world, BIMBoom will always reign supreme.
Luke to make sure we don’t have this competition next year, I just want you all to know that Revit Architecture 2013 will be shipping on April 13, 2012. Yup. That’s release “13” releasing on Friday the 13th. I hope you’re not superstitious. I really don’t know when it’s shipping, but it’s always nice to be first or number one.
http://bimboom.blogspot.com/2011/04/in-other-bim-blogger-newsi-won.html
Thanks Luke. You unofficially beat me, but I’m not allowed to officially discuss the release date until it becomes available to everyone. Consider it a subscription benefit to get the software a few days early.
http://bimboom.blogspot.com/2011/04/revit-2012-downloadle-nowfor-some.html
…and then there’s Luke. Luke has a great blog, https://wrw.is/. Luke worries me a little. He writes almost as many blog posts as I do. Thankfully, his are all very technical and based on the use of Revit at his firm. Luke, keep up the great work. Luke, yes, I was double tricking you.
http://bimboom.blogspot.com/2011/04/about-that-revit-save-as-previous.html
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Keep up the good work Gregory! What would life be without a bit of fun?
Unfortunately, the Selection panel on the Manage tab is not enabled in Revit Architecture 2012!
It would certainly be nice to have this feature added to RAC. Perhaps in Web Update 1, please Factory?
New Features – Revit Architecture
by Steve Stafford
Revit Protocols & Standards – Where Do I Start?
by Neil Munro
Advanced Geometry
by Phil Read
LAB: Adaptive Components – Making Them Work for You
by Chris Mawson
Detailing in Autodesk Revit Architecture
by Paul Aubin
Pretty cool that I get to see Steve Stafford, Phil Read and Paul Aubin all in one day!
