At command prompt, type STARTUP and hit Enter. Type 2 and hit Enter.
When you close AutoCAD and then re-open it, you will be greeted with a nice, clean screen with no drawing opened.
I would love to be able to press one button and see all of the current Autodesk products that I have installed disappear. No, I’m not souring on Autodesk 🙂 It’s just that often the different suites and products do not play nice when trying to install them in an environment with existing Autodesk products of the same generation.
Autodesk has provided some tools to automatically uninstall certain products:
How to perform an automated uninstallation of the AutoCAD Design Suite 2013 family of products
The provided uninstall tool will detect and uninstall 32-bit or 64-bit versions of AutoCAD Design Suite 2013 (English only).
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ADSUninstallTool.exe (exe – 844Kb) |
How to perform an automated uninstallation of AutoCAD 2012 and Autodesk Design Suite 2012 Family Products
The uninstall tool will remove folders and registry keys related to the uninstalled product and plug-ins.
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psebuninstalltool.exe (exe – 846Kb) |
Unfortunately, I can not find tools to uninstall all Autodesk products of all generations, nor can I find specific tools to uninstall Building Design Suites. Can you find anything?
Alfred Huang has just uploaded the most recent NYC-RUG presentation to Vimeo:
How to Do it All in Revit -Concept Design for Large Scale Projects – New York City Revit User Group (New York, NY) – Meetup
How to Do it All in Revit -Concept Design for Large Scale Projects from Alfred Huang on Vimeo.
It even gives me a step-by-step on how to do it properly. Revit is truly telling me What it Wants … and it doesn’t want to deal with Areas and Design Options!
“Areas and Area Boundaries are not allowed in Design Options. Make an Area Scheme and an Area Plan for this Option then draw all Areas and Area Boundaries in that view.“
Try this:
Make sure that you are using the Face option for placing the component.
Turn off the Original Path by selecting the Divided Path and using:
Start the place Component command.
Make sure that you pick a Node on the Divided Path to place the Component.
The Repeat button should now be visible.
Note: you can set a Node of the Divided Path as a workplane (the Placement Plane dropdown in the Options bar will read “Divided Path”), but placing a Component on such a workplane will likely mean that the Repeat button will be grayed out.
If you ever want to know when each Revit version came out, check out this page by David Conant:
Revit Timeline (W.I.P.)
So how many of you have used Revit 0.1 (November 1999)?
Aaron Maller has been travelling a lot lately, but he still found the time to upload some of the recent presentations that he has delivered:
Flicking through the Glasgow RUG PDF, you will find cool stuff like:
I also like these words from his post:
Its really not enough to be doing the best that i can in one country.
We need a vehicle, for reaching a Global platform.
i dont post these thinking they are anything more than what they are: One small groups workflow that happens to get us through some specific needs.
Read more / via:
Malleristic Revitation: Malleristic BIM travels
I think Civil3D is a very powerful and useful tool. I have even found some ways to make it work nicely with Revit, by using it to do graphical slope analysis, or using it to increase Topography resolution.
If you too are interested in using Civil3D in the BIM process, you should check out the recent article by Andrew Walther on AUGI:
Quote:
As can be seen, the concepts of BIM, which were initially founded in the building industry, can readily be applied to infrastructure and land development projects. The key lies in understanding the processes and applying those concepts to the individual components of the process. Whether it’s BIM or Model-Based Design, the concepts are the same and the technology allows designers to share and leverage data in certain areas. With Civil 3D the true BIM components lie in: 1) moving data through the various phases of the infrastructure project procurement process; and 2) sharing data during individual project phases.
Read more:
BIM and Civil 3D – Fact or Fiction? | AUGI
You can use the Wall Opening tool to allow Revit Room elements to flow between spaces. Other methods are not very reliable or just will not work. So, don’t forget about this little button on the Ribbon:
Tip via:
Non Room Bounding Wall Opening – Autodesk Discussion Groups
Ok, this is a bit counter-intuitive but:
If you want to export parameters from Revit to an IFC file, note that the parameters should not be grouped under the category “IFC parameter”, but under a different (eg, .. ID data, text) category.
This is because the IFC parameter group is for inbuilt / standard IFC parameters.
via
Autodesk BIM Blog – Tipp f�r IFC-Parameter Export f�r Revit Produkte
