AutoCAD 2015 – This version has the ability to remove the stamp
altogether if a Save is performed. Once a file is saved in 2015, it can
be sent to users on earlier versions, and the stamp will no longer be a
part of the file.
AutoCAD 2014 SP1 – With AutoCAD 2014 Service Pack 1 installed, DWG files will no longer show the educational plot stamp while plotting, nor will they give a warning message when opening them. However, the stamp is still attached to the file even though it is not showing. The danger is that someone with 2014 SP1 could open a file and work on it without realizing it has the educational stamp on it. If they then send that to someone without SP1, or on an earlier version, that user will see the warning and the stamp. At this time, using 2014 with SP1 will still propagate the stamp to other drawings, as in the past.
Read more:
Educational Plot Stamp Removal Issues | Autodesk Knowledge Network
Some of you may already have read about the ability for DWG Trueview 2015 to remove Educational plot stamps.
Firstly, export the Viewpoints you want to rename to XML.
Open the XML in Notepad++. Now we are going to use Search – Replace to append something to the view name in the XML file. Once we get the Find syntax correct (I used view name=”View), you can just use a backslash 1 in the Replace box to signify the Find result, and then add whatever you like after that. See the image:
(make sure you pick the Regular Expression radio button)
Click Replace All, then save the XML (make sure you just click save, and don’t click Save As). Now, import it back into your Saved Viewpoints in Navisworks.
This is what it looks like in Navisworks after re-importing the XML:
Keep in mind that the import / export process will result in your Hide/Required and Override Material boxes becoming unticked for each imported view.
This is another good reason that you should be using Appearance Profiler by now… Have you noticed Presenter has now been completely replaced by Autodesk Rendering in Navisworks 2015?
More on Notepad++ renaming:
regex – How do you do a Find and Insert in Notepad instead of a replace, while using regular expression? – Stack Overflow
If you have subscription and account access, try this link and use your login:
It allows you to quickly view your Cloud Credits, the services that you qualify for, and it also provides links to download software and product enhancements.
Great!
You have less than one month to try the cloud based Daylighting Analysis before it expires on 30 April.
More info is at:
http://autodesk.typepad.com/bpa/2014/03/another-update-of-light-analysis-for-revit-is-available-in-labs.html
Heads-up:
https://twitter.com/BIM4ScottC/status/449620076455800832
For years, Architects and in some cases Engineers have seen their project involvement slowly diminish as new niche disciplines take over parts of the project delivery process. Once upon a time, an Architect would have controlled design, contracts, bidding and cost analysis, full contract administration, defects and more. Many of these components have been trimmed away by quantity surveyors, project managers, and to a large extent Head Contractors.
Could Trade Contractors (in Australia these are often call Subcontractors) be the next group who starts chipping away at this scope, as they take on more and more responsibility for developing detailed BIM models (yeah I said it) for future projects?
Along these lines, you may have seen this tweet, where I quoted Steve Jones from McGraw Hill, speaking at the SmartMarket breakfast in Adelaide this week:
“Void from Consulting Engineers is being happily filled by Trade Contractors” when it comes to BIM implementation and coordination
— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) March 31, 2014
This trend is evidently not limited to just one country, as this quote supports:
Contractors have now surpassed architects as the fastest growing adopters of BIM. Over the next two years, contractors expect the percentage of their work that involves BIM to increase by 50 percent on average…
Read more in the article at:
Building and Infrastructure Industry Customers Surge to Autodesk in Fourth Quarter – WSJ.com
Heads-up:
https://twitter.com/LEEDing_Lady/status/448069445441687552
Ryan Schultz is working on Revit–>IFC–>Revit translations, and he has created a open source page as a focus for test and sample files. Here is the link:
https://github.com/theoryshaw/IFC_Roundtrip
Interestingly, Ryan is looking into IFC translations with ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, Microstation, Tekla and others. The mixed environment of BIM software on collaborative projects is proving a challenge to many teams. Ok, we can’t all work with Revit (maybe one day), but for now we have to find a way to share our models with high geometry fidelity and without losing the actual intelligence of BIM data.
I’m sure Ryan would be keen to hear from you, perhaps via Twitter or the github page.
Let’s work together to learn how to work together…
In a somewhat unexpected post, landarchBIM has described a method of inferring the movement of a Reference Plane that is driven by an angle parameter. This probably falls outside of the “best practice” category, but it may be worth a read:
http://landarchbim.com/2014/04/01/rotating-reference-planes/
The key seems to be “that the plane must be constrained to the plane it wants to move along.”
Personally, I will probably stick to Reference Lines, because I don’t find them too difficult to understand or control. But hey, whatever works for you! Oh, and if you have any problems, contact landarchBIM 🙂
via
https://twitter.com/landarchBIM/status/451012524477927424
Reply:
@lukeyjohnson have to say.. since using the @marcellosgamb ride-the-rail method, i haven’t turned back. Started to teach it for MEP families
— Matthew Nelson (@MattBeNimble) April 2, 2014
This is a Geometry Gym demo, showing the use of the baketoifc and importifc tools:
via
Advanced #IFC workflow. http://t.co/uY06ywGqJY Users need to demand more from software for improved collaboration and efficiency. #openBIM
— Geometry Gym (@geometrygym) April 1, 2014
