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Farewell Dimond Architects – its been great

Luke Johnson

After a 10 year association with Dimond Architects, I have decided to move to Adelaide and seek out new opportunities.

We part on very good terms, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Directors, Ian and Sharyn Dimond, for their awesome support over the past decade.  I wish them all the best and hope that Dimond Architects continues to encourage professional development and forward thinking – an ethos that has allowed What Revit Wants to become what it is today.

I am currently looking at a couple of different employment options, and I will keep you posted as to where I end up.  Feel free to contact me if you know of any potential vacancies in Adelaide that would suit a BIM / Revit / IT guy such as myself 🙂

Dimond Architects Performance Centre project featured on indesignlive website!

Luke Johnson

The Matthew Flinders Performance Centre, designed and documented by Dimond Architects, has been featured on the indesignlive website at this link.

High resolution professional photographs may be viewed on this page.

Photography by Roger D’Souza

The Performance Centre has been entered into the Architecture awards, which will be judged in the coming year.

This project was modeled in Revit Architecture.

Show your support and appreciation for What Revit Wants

Luke Johnson

Over the years, I have spent countless hours keeping up with Revit news.  I have consistently shared news, tips, tricks, hacks, workarounds, and generally cool things with all of you out there in the Revit community.

I have provided you with free workflows and tools that have probably saved you time and money.  This information has been offered to all of you free of charge – over 700 posts of goodness!

I could not have done this without the unfailing support of my employer, Dimond Architects.

I haven’t asked much of you, but I ask now that you please show your support for this blog and for the company that makes it possible.  Please Like our company Facebook page by clicking on the Like button below.

(if you can’t see the badge, just click on this link and Like the page that way).

Also, please follow Dimond Architects on Twitter.

If you require any architectural assistance feel free to contact us – info@dimondarchitects.com.au

We also offer Revit training and consultancy services.  Again, feel free to contact us using the above email, or call us:
+61 07 5451 0988

Finally, I would like to thank you all for your comments and for following this blog.  If you haven’t subscribed yet, head over to this link and do so.  You can also follow me on Twitter.

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Dimond Architects Blog: Sustainable Cities Event 2010 – Singapore

Luke Johnson

“Dimond Architects has been able to recently put forward a proposal for a prototype version of the design for Taiwan (to later be incorporated into Eco-City projects in mainland China).”

Read the rest of the post – link below:
Dimond Architects Blog: Sustainable Cities Event 2010 – Singapore: “For hundreds of thousands of years man fought to make a place for himself in nature. For the first time in the history of our species, the s…”

 

Encoding 64 bit Walkthrough – Codec and Solution!

Luke Johnson

Update: check out this page for the 64-bit Xvid codec

I previously described the difficulty of encoding walkthroughs on 64-bit Revit with any sort of compression codec. I did provide a workaround in this post.

However, in recent correspondence with Autodesk, a more suitable solution was revealed to me. Apparently, some users discovered that the Lagarith Lossless Video Codec works properly in Revit 64-bit. Needless to say, I was quite excited. After some testing, I can confirm that this codec works very successfully.

Here are the steps to get it working:

  1. Download the installer from here.
  2. Install the codec.
  3. Open a Revit walkthrough view.
  4. Export … Walkthrough.
  5. Follow the usual steps, but use the new codec you installed. The default settings worked for me.
  6. Wait for your walkthrough to export and check out the result!