Ever wondered how many official Autodesk Revit blogs there are?  Check out the list below:

BIM & BEAM – Nicolas Mangon, Wai Chu, Tom Culotta
Family Jewels-Creating Quality BIM Content – William Spier, Ian McGaw, Martin J. Schmid, Jason A. Spleha
Inside the Factory – Tom Vollaro, Erik Egbertson
Inside the System – Kyle Bernhardt
The Building Coder – Jeremy Tammik
The Revit Clinic – Harlan Brumm, Kathryn Langan, Jeremy Smith, Ryan Duell
German BIM Blog

Here is a master list of Autodesk Blogs (for all software packages)

Dear AutoCAD® 2012 Customer:

Autodesk has recently released a maintenance update for your product. Errors similar to those you have encountered have been resolved and are part of this update.

We recommend that you install this maintenance update to update your product, or contact your system administrator.

 Error Report Summary

Computer     Date     The problem title you provided Autodesk
Not provided    15/06/2011    Tried to separate hatches again.
Not provided    15/06/2011    Trying to separate hatches in a XREF.

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     AutoCAD (R) 2012 x64 Service Pack 1 19.359 MB
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You must have administrative permissions to install an update.

I recommend you use a download manager like Firefox with Downthemall…

Windows Developer Preview English, 64-bit (x64)

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Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 64-bit PC.

Windows Developer Preview English, 32-bit (x86)

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Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 32-bit PC.

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Windows Metro Style Apps Developer Downloads

Autodesk says it is releasing its IFC exporter so that users can more directly control exported elements. Users may, for example, change the representation of exported elements, should they find another, more useful encoding.

Access to the Revit IFC exporter open source code, as well as information regarding the Revit IFC Exporter Open Source Committee, can be found at the SourceForge repository at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ifcexporter.

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GraphicSpeak � Autodesk releases Revit IFC Exporter as open source

Yes – it can be done!  The program you need is called Adobe Acrobat 3D Version 8.  It is very hard to find a download link, as this program has been superseded (by what would seem to be less powerful version/s).  Look for a file called Acro3D80_efg.exe.  It can be installed as a trial.  Trust me, it is worth it.  This is one powerful piece of software.

  1. Download Adobe Acrobat 3D Version 8.
  2. Install (as a Trial, if you don’t have the serial).  It is functional for 30 days.
  3. Open DWF file – it will automatically convert to 3D PDF.
  4. Save as PDF file.

Here is one download link I found for this file:


http://te.hu/download/adobe/demo/acrobat/acro3D80_efg.zip

A set of hashes for the file are:
  File: Acro3D80_efg.exe
CRC-32: d0c02103
   MD4: 1524e7773eb8609d3433a5c7f997f0ad
   MD5: 3102b53090dc58350eca2c3e6b4fb17e
 SHA-1: f9488c4b6e79fedc9eec54edb5f0e991c7d8d21f

When you install Adobe Acrobat 3D Version 8, another program called Adobe Acrobat 3D Toolkit is also installed.  It is also seems to be quite powerful for converting 3D files and creating 3D PDFs.

You may also be interested interested in my previous post:
Create 3D PDF files from Autodesk Revit for free

Links that you may find useful with regard to Revit and 3D PDF

Post showing Acrobat newer versions lost the powerful functionality of Version 8:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/299546?tstart=1

Adobe blog post about using 3D capture and Revit:
http://blogs.adobe.com/acrobatforaec/2007/06/how_to_get_autodesk_revit_mode.html

Original blog post that got me thinking about this:
http://revitoped.blogspot.com/2011/07/application-development-building-case.html

Adobe 3D version 8 update page:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3859

Original post that got me headed in the right direction:
http://www.rugsyd.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=623

Package download link

You can open the BlueScope LYSAGHT.adsklib file in the Manage – Materials dialog in Revit.  This allows you to apply all of the nice, proper material properties to your Revit Material.

There is a step by step guide on how to use this at the following link:
Lysaght Designer Website – Powered by SteelSelect� – COLORBOND� steel Texture Library for Revit – LYSAGHT� Content