If you are suffering “Autodesk University Excitement Fade”, maybe my tweets about the AU Extension in Australia might help get you back in the mood for learnin’…
“we believe we are on the brink of the biggest change since the industrial revolution” AUx #AU2014 — Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) November 9, 2014
“if you want to full take advantage of the models, it’s about manufacturing off-site…” (general contractor speaking at #AU2014 AUx) — Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) November 10, 2014
Looking forward “there won’t be subcontractors… there will be supply chain partners.” David Beslich, Hansen Yuncken #AU2014#construction — Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) November 10, 2014
Here it is – my little collection of AU2012 goodies. Images, videos, cool quotes (and don’t forget the tweets!) – everything from the last couple of weeks that I thought was worth posting is here. Enjoy!
AU Virtual 2012 Most of my experience with AU2012 was either through Virtual or Twitter. Having viewed a few sessions, here are some things I found interesting: The Reality of the Cloud – “you can’t protect what you don’t have line of sight” to
Revit 2014 features discussed I also attended the AEC Futures session today to give us a preview of what’s coming in Revit 2014. Unfortunately we are under NDA for that, so I’ll not be giving anything away. I eagerly await the forthcoming release. via AU Wrap Up
Fusion 360 Looks interesting… some more info at: BIMopedia Online – Benjamin Malone Models can be uploaded from Revit, Rhino, ArchiCAD you name it – with synchornised results far more accurate than what we are acheiving at the moment. We have been promised a fully interoperable and extremely accurate product to product exchange. Sounds very exciting, and about time too. This promises to be the first truly open BIM platform…
Riverbed bug Well to my surprise I get a email from one of my Revit users asking why objects are not showing up! Didn’t think this would happen with Revit! (how naive!). So we will now evaluate a new pdf driver! Anyone else ever had this issue with pdf’s? We are testing a couple projects using Revit Server and have had a couple error messages stating that “This Operation could not be Completed”, after asking around at AU I found out that there appears to be a known issue between Riverbed and Revit Server (wish I had known about it earlier…). anyway apparently the guys at Riverbed are working on a solution, in the mean time I have to look for a work around! The Revit Jedi: AU and Known and Unknow Issues.
RT @seandburke: @zachkron, “Like any good computational tool, mistakes make for interesting things”. (Paraphrased) #au2012 — Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) November 28, 2012
Aaron Maller @Twiceroadsfool @lukeyjohnson @62TV175 @BigBadBIM @RobertYori @lonniecumpton I have a 1.2GB file, runs on 8GB. Have a 200mb file that requires 12GB.
Jason Rostar @jrostar Note: Students are dirt cheap existing condition modelers via @BrianSkripac
I’m sure many of you are very experienced Photoshop users, so I won’t bore you with too much detail. There are just two things I wanted to mention:
If you have a photo that was taken in less-than-perfect light, try the Image – Adjustments – Shadow/Highlight tool. Some experimentation with this adjustment can yield very good results.
One principle of Architectural Photography is that of Straight Verticals. If you have an image that has warped verticals due to perspective, you can use the Filter – Distort – Lens Correction tool in Photoshop.
I recently viewed the class 45 Autodesk® Revit® Tips in 45 Minutes(Smith, Chad) on AU Virtual. It was an excellent class. Here are two things that I learnt:
You can Tab BETWEEN elements – in other words, select one wall in a chain of walls, then highlight another wall in the chain and press Tab. Only those walls in-between the two will be selected!
Pre-select when Filtering – before making a Filter, select an element first. Then go View – Filters – click on the ‘New Filter’ icon. The Category of the element that you select is automatically pre-selected for the new Filter!
