Deadlines. CAD-method: throw warm bodies at it. Complex #Revit projects however, prove the adage “nine women can’t make a baby in one month”
Twitter / NMcClure: Deadlines. CAD-method: thr …
quote “I have been asked by a few customers if Revit will cache textures in graphics RAM just like a game system might? … I am happy to say the answer is yes – Revit will fully use this RAM and the graphics team is continually looking to make improvements in memory management.”
From Erik at Inside the Factory: Revit and your Graphics Card
To change which orientation that the Revit ViewCube thinks is the ‘Front’ for a specific view, check out the video below, or scroll down for the quick step-by-step.
- Orient the view to the orientation you would like to be the Front. This will have to be a ‘horizontal’ view.
- Right-click on ViewCube, go to Set Front to View
- Click on [Current View].
Note: Press the letter ‘A’ on your keyboard if views with numbers in front are hiding the [Current View] option – it is quicker than scrolling!
My previous Blog post about Orient to a Plane
- Typos are made during activation
- The serial number you are attempting to use does not match the product
- The serial number you are attempting to use is truly not valid anymore
- The contact information you are using does not match what is already associated with the Serial Number when the product was registered
Issue
You have purchased a license on Subscription for an Autodesk product and would like download one of the three previous releases of the product.
Solution
As a Subscription Member, you can download and activate the latest release, or any of the three previous releases, of most Autodesk products. You can activate one release of a product per license, purchased on Subscription.
To download the product software for which you are eligible, log into Subscription Center, select Access your subscription benefits, then Downloads.
The main “lesson” I try to impart to new #Revit teams is not how to do it this way, but WHY to.
Gordon Price has created a Revit Benchmark utility.
Forum Thread New AUBench
Actual downloads at:
Read the included readme file – the main trick is that you need to modify your revit.ini to AllowPressandDrag….
Enjoy the weekend!
A great list showing the Visibility/Graphics priority, thanks to Revit Fix. From most powerful to least powerful:
- Line Work Tool
- Override graphics in view by elements
- Filters
- View Depth -Beyond system line type (plan views only)
- Phasing graphic overrides
- Advanced model graphics – silhouette edges.
- Visibility / Graphic overrides – Halftone
- Visibility / Graphic overrides – Override host layers (Cut line styles)
- Visibility / Graphic overrides – (projection & cut lines)
- Project object styles
You have a scanned image of a Contour Plan, and you want to convert that raster image into useful vector data. How do you go about it?
In the past, I would have used vanilla AutoCAD to trace the contours to polylines, then I might ‘spline’ them, then convert back to polylines (using a LISP tool), set all the elevations properly, and then import to Revit, then Create from Import to make the Topography. Fun!
However, this week I have fallen in love with a new tool. Its called AutoCAD Raster Design. I’ll admit – it’s not perfect. But it is smart, and it makes the process much more bearable. Just follow these steps:
- Download the AutoCAD Raster Design trial from here
- You need vanilla AutoCAD installed already…
- Install AutoCAD Raster Design
- Scan your image using scanning software. Save as pretty much any format, such as a JPG.
- Open Raster Design.
- Click ‘Insert Image…’
- Just do Quick Insert to get your image in quickly.
- Now use the Histogram tool from the Raster – Image Processing menu. Try and get a lot of ‘contrast’ into your image.
- Use the ‘Change Color Depth’ tool from the Raster – Image Processing menu. Reduce to Grayscale and then Bitonal. You really need to get the image into a ‘Bitonal’ form to make use of the vectorization tools.
- Use the Despeckle tool from the Raster – Cleanup menu to get rid of little dots…
- Now that you have a nice clean Bitonal Image, go to the Raster – Vectorization tools menu and choose ‘Contour Follower’. This tool is pretty self explanatory – just follow the command prompts and experiment with the options on the command line.
- You may need to tweak the ‘Options’ under the Raster menu – Options. On the Raster Entity Detection tab, tweak these settings to suit your image. Also under the VTools Follower tab, tweak these settings to suit your Elevation Interval…
- Finally, you will want to turn on Raster Snap under the Raster menu. This will snap to the Bitonal image elements quite nicely.
Once you have traced all your contours and set proper elevations, save the DWG. You will be prompted to also save the image…
Now import your DWG into Revit and use it to make your Topography.
Obviously, what Revit wants is for you to use accurate data at all times – so if you can get access to a proper DWG of the Contour Plan, do that! In the meantime, you can use the abovementioned process to get the project under way…
