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How to match a Revit 3D view to a real life Camera Photo

Luke Johnson

Awesome post from Klaus over at:
Revit and Camera Match / FOV and Focal Length

He provides a family file and a step-by-step process for how to match a Revit 3D perspective view with a real life camera photo. There are some nice implications to this, especially if you want to use a real life photo as a background for a rendering or other visualisation. Thanks Klaus!

Note:  his post relates especially to a Canon EOS1000D (some tweaking may be required for other cameras).

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RevitForum Blog: Best posts of the month of May 2011

Trimble Acquires Tekla

Luke Johnson

Trimble Finland Oy, a subsidiary of Trimble Navigation Limited, has acquired Tekla.  This could result in some interesting products, as Trimble has a real focus on mobile technologies.  Watch this space…and read on for some more information.

Here is a quote from the press release on the Tekla website.

The extended offer period in the public tender offer by Trimble Finland Oy, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Trimble Navigation Limited, for all of the issued and outstanding shares in Tekla Corporation that are not owned by Tekla, expired on June 27, 2011.

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Notification of a change in shareholding according to Securities Markets Act 2:9 – Tekla

And here is a pretty big claim made by Tekla at the above link:

Tekla Corporation drives the evolution of digital information models with its software, providing a growing competitive advantage to customers in the construction, infrastructure and energy industries.

So, who or what is Trimble?  Here is some more information:

Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions are focused on applications requiring position or location: including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics, Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the field and the back office. Founded in 1978, Trimble is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.

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Trimble Navigation Limited – Trimble Completes Tender Offer for Tekla Corporation

Resetting Shared Coordinates (via Revit OpEd)

Luke Johnson

Great veteran’s tip from Steve.  He explains how to reset shared coordinates to an out-of-the-box setting by Acquiring Coordinates from a default Revit template:

Once two files are sharing coordinates you can’t really remove this relationship. If you remove the link and import it again (Auto – Origin to Origin) the relationship survives.


To truly remove (really more like replace) the relationship I use a new file that is based on the stock Revit template default.rte. I import this file and Acquire Coordinates from it instead. Revit can only acquire coordinates from one source file so using a “good” one “resets” it …

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Revit OpEd: Shared Coordinates and Copy Monitor

3 Ways to Add Multi-Line text to Revit labels

Luke Johnson

Many people know that you can add a carriage return (and thus create multi-line labels) in Revit by accessing a Properties entry box and hitting Ctrl+Enter:

Over at Revitez, another method was mentioned – namely, copy multiline text from Notepad into a Properties parameter box.  This works well – and you can navigate between the lines in Revit using Up and Down arrow keys.

Finally, you can accomplish essentially the same thing by holding Alt + typing 0010 (then release Alt).  This will also insert a well behaved carriage return into the parameter.

Some ideas via Revitez!:
Google Translate
In French http://revitez.blogspot.com/2011/07/texte-multi-ligne-dans-un-libelle.html

RTC 2011 Reciprocal Resource free downloads

Luke Johnson

If you attended either RTC AUS or RTC USA this year, you can download content from BOTH conferences.  Awesome!


“We are pleased to offer the downloading of materials for both the Australasian and North American conference programs to attendees of either conference.
 

Materials can be downloaded from the respective websites – RTC 2011 Australasia and RTC 2011 North America using the following passwords…”

via email

Here are some direct links to the materials pages:
RTC AUS 2011

RTC USA 2011



If you attended, check your inbox for the passwords!!




Free Revit Details

Luke Johnson

Over at ARCxl, you can download a bunch of Revit details for free.  According to the website, these details were all created natively in Revit.

The Terms of Use describes the proper way that these details may be utilised, and you must agree to these terms when you register. 

Effective July 19, 2011, two very significant alterations were made to the ARCxl website. We have added CAD/dwg, and PDF file formats to our library. We have also removed restrictions on account location and email address types.

Quoted from
ARCxl for Revit: ARCxl adds CAD/dwg, PDF and Eases Restrictions

 
Upon downloading a detail, you must also agree with this popup:

By clicking CONTINUE, I confirm I have read and agree to the ARCxl Terms of Use in their entirety. I agree to hold all liability for the use, review, compliance with all applicable laws, codes, and ordinances. I agree to seek professional review by an architect or engineer, and that ARCxl details and components are provided as-is without warranty of any kind. I understand that this is a single-use license and not a transfer of title.

Find all instances of a detail object and report them to a file

Luke Johnson

Here is how to do it:

  1. Select the detail item.
  2. Right-click > Select All Instances > In Entire Project
  3. Attempt ‘Group’ command

It will fail with an error like this:

However the resulting Error Report contains the view names that all these elements exist in…

Click Expand >> and then Export…
Save the Error Report to a file and have fun going through them one by one 🙂

Maximise your Investment in BIM webinar postponed

Luke Johnson

After logging in for the Maximise your Investment in BIM Across the Project Lifecycle with Autodesk® Building Design Suite Premium webinar today, I was presented with this message:



Dear Customer
It is with regret that we inform you, that due to unforeseen circumstances we will need to postpone today’s webinar on Maximising your Investment in BIM. We will be rescheduling the webinar in the coming weeks and will notify you of the revised date and time as soon as possible.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience that may have been caused as a result of this cancellation.