…and I’m excited!
I have a feeling that this release is going to be VERY helpful.
Just login to Subscription Centre to download it.
Reposted from an email I received today from Autodesk. Direct link to registration page here.
“Join Autodesk’s technical support experts for our latest live webcast exclusively for Autodesk Subscription customers. With so much going on in our everyday drawing life we have a tendency to get in an AutoCAD rut. This webcast will show you a variety of tips that to help improve your productivity, including:
- Parametric Design
- Dynamic Blocks
- PDF Underlay
- Plot Settings
- File Migration
- UI Enhancements
- Measurement Tools
- File Save and Recovery
- Layer Management
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Some drawings inspire the imagination
Some drawings are inspired by the imagination
Some drawings are devoid of inspiration and imagination
What kind of drawings do you create with Revit?
Steve Stafford has posted about a highly detailed guide related to family creation.
“The purpose of the Revit Model Style Guide is to define Autodesk guidelines and standards for model creation in Revit® Architecture, Revit® MEP, and Revit® Structure.”
Have a look at the post over at Revit OpEd.
Steve also provides a link to the download.
To download a PDF outline of a recent Autodesk webcast given on this topic, please use the link below:
http://images.autodesk.com/apac_sapac_main/files/microsoft_powerpoint_-_subs-aec-25_top_issues_in_revit_products.pdf
“The easiest way to tune in is to subscribe to this podcast series. “
Reposted from http://au.typepad.com/au/2009/09/au-2009-podcast-series-starts-today.html
We use a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo as our fileserver. Recently we started to experience some annoying and disturbing error messages, such as:
- Access to {path}{CentralFileName}-backupeperms.dat was denied
- Encountered a hardware I/O error while accessing {path}{CentralFileName}-backuprequests.dat
- An unknown error occurred while accessing {path}{CentralFileName}.rvt
This resulted in some loss of work and lots of annoyance.
I discussed the issue with our local reseller and they basically recommended I stop using the NAS and use a different share. But I didn’t want to do that! However, it did seem likely that the problem was with the NAS. I played around with some settings in the NAS setup…and I think I found the answer. It was to do with ‘oplocks’. I needed to disable the oplocks for the share, and the problem went away! How do you do it?
- In the Netgear ReadyNAS Duo ‘Frontview’ administration page, go to the ‘Shares’ page.
- Go to the ‘Share Options’ for the share you are using to store Revit Central Files.
- Scroll down the bottom to ‘Opportunistic Locking’ and disable the ‘Enable oplocks for this share’ tick box.
What are ‘oplocks’? According to the utility:
Opportunistic locking (oplocks) can enhance CIFS performance by allowing files residing on this ReadyNAS to be cached locally on the Windows client, eliminating network latency when files are repeatedly accessed.
This definition indicates that oplocks could certainly have caused this issue. Since disabling the option, we have experienced none of the aforementioned errors.
Have you experienced this problem? If so, I hope my solution helped you.
Also, it looks like I haven’t been the only one with an issue like this:
http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/open-enterprise-server/oes-platform-independent/oes-client-windows/371285-revit-2009-64-bit-opportunistic-file-locking.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg86717.html
http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/open-enterprise-server/oes-netware/oes-nw-install-upgrade/369243-cifs-xp-pro-x64.html
http://community.riverbed.com/rvrb/board/message?board.id=24&thread.id=30
“Specific applications known to exhibit this behavior include Solidworks and AutoDesk Revit, as demonstrated by your experience.”
EDIT Associated issue may result in error such as:
This issue was with a user not being able to write to a particular file that Revit uses to maintain the state of the central file.
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Many Revit users will encourage you to convert your AutoCAD details into Revit details.
However, perhaps this isn’t a valid option for you (due to time constraints). You can find some good information on how to successfully link the AutoCAD details into Revit (some links below). In addition to these, I have found the following to be successful:
- In the Revit project, set up lineweights for you detail scale levels (1:5, 1:10 or similar) to equate to the lineweights you would use in AutoCAD.
- Setup your ‘Import Line Weights’ (Ribbon – Insert tab, Import panel, little ‘arrow’ for settings). Basically, this maps your AutoCAD colours to Revit lineweights.
- In the AutoCAD detail, use Multileaders if possible. In our case, this wasn’t an option (as Multileaders simply didn’t give enough graphic control for one of our architects). If you can’t use Multileaders, explode all MTEXT to DTEXT (this fixes problems with the MTEXT not wrapping correctly in Revit. If you need to come back and edit the text in AutoCAD, then use the Express Tool to convert the DTEXT back into MTEXT before editing. Convert all QLEADERS and LEADERS to MLEADERS with blank text boxes. The arrows didn’t work for us using LEADERS, but MLEADERS showed up fine in Revit. I did this manually – I set up a MLEADER style that didn’t have a landing or text, and then traced over the LEADER objects. I then deleted the original leader objects. So I was left with DTEXT and blank MLEADERS – this displays perfectly in Revit.
- Set up your detail DWG files such that there is ONE detail per DWG.
- Link into AutoCAD drafting views using ‘black and white’ for colours (the Import Line Weights takes care of the lineweight settings).
- In each drafting view, if you need greyscale or colour layers to be linked from AutoCAD, use the Revit Visibility/Graphics to override those layers to the original colour. (You could also do this in reverse – link layers with original colour, and override black layers to black…)
These were just a few things that made this process work for me. I encourage you to check out these links:http://forums.augi.com/showpost.php?p=829155&postcount=6Maximum number of linked files?Using AutoCAD details Best Practices
Okay, we are not all in love with Revit – it can even be frustrating at times.
But check out this link:
http://blog.lpainc.com/lpa-blog/bid/20431/Why-REVIT-Works
In part, the author states “Here at LPA, we’ve begun to bring all of the various integrated sustainable design disciplines in-house, which I think directly relates to the adoption and full utilization of Revit and all its potential.”
I discussed some similar comments in my What Inspires You? post.
We here at Dimond Architects continually strive to keep pace with current and emerging technologies, and have made a significant shift from AutoCAD to Revit as our design and documentation software of choice.
The result of this shift is a better, more comprehensive and coordinated architectural package that can be delivered to the Client in a variety of interesting forms.
EDIT: Steve from Revit OpEd has provided clarification based on his association with some of the founders of the software – see link below:
http://revitoped.blogspot.com/2006/06/what-does-revit-mean.html
David Conant says: “The Revit name is an invented word designed to imply revision and speed.”
ORIGINAL POST BELOW:
Revise Instantly!
You will find this on a few sites after doing a google search:
http://www.simplylinks.co.za/article407_simplicitywithautodeskrevitarchitecture.htm
http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=8736
http://www.autodesk.co.za/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=9801806&id=9948721&linkID=12212844
