What Revit Wants
The Matthew Flinders Performance Centre, designed and documented by Dimond Architects, has been featured on the indesignlive website at this link.
High resolution professional photographs may be viewed on this page.
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| Photography by Roger D’Souza |
The Performance Centre has been entered into the Architecture awards, which will be judged in the coming year.
This project was modeled in Revit Architecture.
Ever wanted to constrain your orbit to only the X or Y axis in Revit? Here is one way to do it:
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Disable Mouse Movement on One Axis – Tech Salsa
There have recently been a few posts in the blogosphere about Revit and Autodesk history. I have here collected links to some of the more interesting ones, as well as links from previous posts on What Revit Wants that deal with Revit history.
The Building Coder: The Genesis of Revit and its API
This is an excellent history post with interviews from key players.
Phil Read and Revit – history
Arch | Tech: 11 Years Ago (Yesterday) – the soft drink machines didn’t even need money!
Autodesk – 30 years of history
Previous posts dealing with Revit history:
A li’l bit of Revit history…Part 1
Assume Revit nets $100/mo per subscription. That means they need 5,000 subscriptions just to break even. “The question is,” summarizes Brad, “How long will it take to ramp up to 5,000 subscriptions?”
A li’l bit of Revit history…Part 2
A li’l bit of Revit history…Part 3
First round of venture capital was in 1998.
First lines of code were written in 1998.
A li’l bit of Revit history…Part 4 (Revit 5 Features)
Align, split, trim, offset tools
These editing tools are like their CAD equivalents, but better.
Revit History – Revit Release 3 – AUGI Forums
Revit History – Revit 4.1 packaging
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| Credit to David Light |
Revit History – Revit 4.0 video
Timeline of BIM Software Development
· 1982 – Autodesk was founded
· 1983 – Autodesk Launches AutoCAD version 1.2
· 1989 – Parametric Technology Corporation introduces the first version of Pro / ENGINEER
· 1992 – Autodesk Launches AutoCAD 12 for DOS and becomes synonymous with CAD
· 1997 – Charles River Software founded. Foundation development team came from Parametric Technology Corporation
· Charles River Software renamed as Revit Technology Corporation
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Revit Timeline – History of Revit software and companies
Versions:
1.0 2000 04
2.0 2000 08
2.1 2000 10
3.0 2001 02
3.1 2001 06
4.0 2001 11
4.1 2002 01
Revit 2003 was still pretty great
Autodesk, a 3D design engineering and entertainment software specialist, is empowering green building practices in the country through its software solutions and products.
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Software maker empowers ‘green’ building practices | MALAYA Business Insight News Online
I have previously described how you can Link Excel spreadsheet data into Revit (through AutoCAD).
But what if you want to semi-automate the process of editing Lookup Tables using Excel? The blog http://www.revitmep.es/ shows you how:
We explain how to create a lookup table for the families…
The biggest impediment there is import and export these files, we use a macro in Excel to streamline these tasks.
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And here is a direct link to the macro-enabled Excel file:
Editor Lookup Tables.xlsm
This video demonstrates a peculiar workflow, in which Revit allows you to change the Type of an Array member without breaking the array.
This example uses a Polar array based on a copy-to-2nd method. You will notice that the reliability of this method actually depends on how far the array is pushed. In general terms though, this hack may prove useful in some situations.
As the plugin’s name suggests, this plugin can be used to generate multiple adjacent levels with one command. It is compatible with Revit Architecture 2012.
// Download Level Generator for Revit Architecture via Autodesk Labs
Read more and via:
February’s free ADN Plugin of the Month: Level Generator for Revit Architecture Now Available – It is Alive in the Lab
Join the Revit Customer Council if you want to participate in the 2012 Revit customer satisfaction survey.
The good part is that you get the survey results sent to you once they have been compiled.
