“Success is not judged by the perfection of the model, but by the learning process it enables.”
Quote from
Shades of Grey: MORE SOAP PLEASE
Most of you know who Paul Aubin is. You can download his Autodesk University Datasets, Papers, Epub files and Videos all at this link:
Autodesk University | Paul F. Aubin
This was Paul’s teaching schedule at AU2011:
Tuesday, November 29
5:00PM
MP4483 – Ask the Experts, Autodesk® Revit® MEP (Panel Discussion)
Wednesday, November 30
1:00PM
MP4636 – Ask the Experts, AutoCAD® MEP (Panel Discussion)
3:00PM
AB3744 – Detailing in Autodesk® Revit® Architecture (Lecture)
5:00PM
AB3737-L – Autodesk® Revit® Families: A Step-by-Step Introduction (Hands-on Lab)
Thursday, December 1
10:00AM
AB3733 – The Autodesk® Revit® Theory of Relativity: Understanding Shared Coordinates (Lecture)
3:00PM
The Autodesk® Revit® Worksets Workshop (Hands-on Lab, Co-Presenting with Matt Dillon)
5:15PM
AB3737-L – Autodesk® Revit® Families: A Step-by-Step Introduction (Hands-on Lab, Repeat)
6 cores with Hyperthreading, up to 3.9 GHz burst mode, 15 MB Cache – this thing is awesome.
And the benchmark results to match:
results via this link
More specs at:
Intel� Core™ i7-3960X Processor Extreme Edition (15M Cache, 3.30 GHz)
Just viewed a great class by Steve Shell:
Tips and Tricks for Autodesk® Revit® Graphic and Visualization Techniques to Make Your Drawings Look Great!
I thought this sample of project he did in Revit in 2003 was very cool:
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| All credit goes to Steven Shell for this image |
When editing a spline, if you select the spline and right-click, you can access the Add and Delete spline control commands.
Beats using the Ribbon!
While editing a Group, you can’t create an Array. There are two workarounds:
- Make the array ‘outside the group’ and then Add it to the Group. This requires you to Finish Group, make Array, Edit Group, Add… etc
- You could use a line based Component as an array ‘guide’ to provide you with the intervals you need, and then Copy Multiple. If you are in a Detail Group, use a Detail Component, if you are in a Model Group, use a Generic Model.
Here are some links to download my array guide components
These components have two instance properties – one to control the size of the ‘tick’, and one to control how many elements / divisions are in the array.
Download example Detail Component here
Download example Generic Model here
Using groups for quick annotation – video example:
via twiceroadsfool at
GroupDemo1.wmv – YouTube
“CAD is BIM and vice versa.”
Jay Zallan, 2006
via
Fear and Loathing In a CAD vs. BIM World: Short Post, Huge Point!!! See the Comments too
BIM blog.ca describes how to go through the following work method (step by step):
- Photos
- 123D Catch
- .LAS (point) file
- XYZ CSV file
- Revit topography
Now you can (kinda) do your site survey using your camera 🙂
via
BIM blog.ca: From Photos to Point Clouds and Topo in Revit
There is huge post on content (family) creation over at this link. I have provided a few useful excerpts below:
A handy list of relevant Agencies / Organizations:
- AIA – American Institute of Architects (E202) http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/aiab083007.pdf
- NIBS – National Institute of Building Sciences – http://www.wbdg.org/bim/nibs_bim.php
- BICSI – Building Industries Consulting Services International – https://www.bicsi.org/double.aspx?l=5140
- BSA – Building Smart Alliance (Council of NBIMS; National Building Information Model Standard Project Committee – http://www.buildingsmartalliance.org/index.php/nbims
- Food Service Industry Taskforce – http://rvttskfrce.ning.com/
- InfoCOMM – http://www.infocomm.org/cps/rde/xchg/infocomm/hs.xsl/11729.htm
Nice tip on formulaic materials:
How do you parametrically change a material parameter in a family if the material itself depends on factors outside of each type designation? After all, it’s impossible to control materials through formulas. Our approach (when the number of ‘stacked’ geometry instances is few) is to model separate pieces of geometry, apply their unique material and then control their on/off visibility through parameters.
How to provide error messages to the family user:
One solution to this perplexing problem is to include 3D text displaying a message to the user when a non-existent configuration is selected.
