it was a shock, last night, to learn of Bill Adams death. Although we both come from the Southern Hemisphere the AUGI booth at Autodesk University was where we met in person. I will miss that smile and the man under the crazy hats (below at AU2011). Vale Bill, my thoughts are with his family and all who'll miss him, literally, around the world. Read more →
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If you use Revit 2020 (yes) with BIM 360 Design (yes) and migrated projects (yes) with lots of families (yes) don’t delay installing this hotfix (which will be offered in the Autodesk Desktop App). It fixes a corruption which could result in data loss. Fixed an issue that resulted in the loss of family data in some workshared models when family definitions had not been recently modified. This fix does not repair models which have encountered loss of family data, for more information refer to Family Corruption in Revit 2020.2 Clipped from: https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2020/ENU/?guid=RevitReleaseNotes_2020updates_2020_2_1_html Read more →
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If you like listening to music or podcasts while working, but don't want the isolation of earbuds or headphones, check out my review of Aftershokz Aeropex bone conducting headphones. Read more →
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Another year has flown by and it is nearly 2020. Time to look back at 2019 from a bloggy/social media (not just CAD blog) perspective: Best social media related event(s): It wasn’t really a social media event but a podcast took me somewhere I didn’t think I would ever go. Dr Karl’s Podcast is a regular on my playlist. Finding out he was leading an expedition cruise to Antarctica this year made it a ‘must go’. After being back a few weeks I have only just sorted out the photos worth keeping (2800) and still have much to write about... Read more →
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I only discovered the bizarre U.S. Survey foot after encountering it in a CAD file. I did the foot > metre conversion on an incoming imperial file and none of the resulting measurements made sense as were ‘a tiny bit out’. Turned out the file was actually created in U.S. Survey Feet, slightly different to normal ‘Feet’. The international foot is defined to be equal to exactly 0.3048 metres. United States survey foot are defined as exactly 1200⁄3937 meters, approximately 0.304800609601 metres. Now this historical unit has been discontinued: The U.S. Survey Foot Has Outlived Its Usefulness – RIP |... Read more →
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A recent promotion announcing Civil 3D availability on BIM 360 Design had me wondering if AutoCAD Architecture (ACA) projects would work using BIM 360 Docs with the Autodesk Desktop Connector. If so it would be rather useful for legacy projects. ACA projects have some odd control files (xml but with different extensions) but creating a new project worked and sync'd perfectly. I could create content, model and views, add annotation and place views on sheets as normal. Not surprising given ACA was just operating in the local Desktop Connector folder and syncing up to BIM 360. Even the file access... Read more →
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I had a most interesting Revit User Group experience tonight. The topic, a panel discussion on “Shared Coordinates”, was good and prompted some great discussion but it was what happened towards the end which made it bizarre. We weren’t in our usual venue, tonight hosted at a street level architectural office in the Auckland CBD. As the formal part of the event was wrapping up a frail, small framed old man wandered into the office wheeling a bicycle. He seemed a bit confused, lost, and we asked who he was looking for? He said ‘the bus stop’ so I took... Read more →
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I was looking to schedule the insert location and rotation of a Multiview Block in AutoCAD Architecture. They have location properties for x,y,z and rotation in the Properties Palette but, strangely, rotation is not an available MV Block property when creating a property set. I tried the Block and MInsert rotation properties (both have them) but they do not report the MV Block rotation. Some Properties in ACA are linked (one value used for multiple object types) but not those. Pondered for a bit, searched the web, surely someone in the past couple of decades had solved this before? But... Read more →
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Sam shares the story behind his creation, surely seen by every Revit user at some stage, the Revit sample house: Samuel Macalister - Architect and BIM Specialist and the Revit 2014 Sample House | labs.blogs.com Read more →
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Way back in 2006 I blogged about AutoCAD Architecture/MEP’s (ACA/AMEP) Project Standards feature. It allows object and display styles to be updated in all or selected files within a Project. There is provision to automatically apply ACA/AMEP Object Styles, Display Settings, Materials and AutoCAD Standards ( like line, layer, font etc) from your reference library when you access the project. If you update content in a project it warns on project close, prompting you to optionally update the project standards for future use. In this respect ACA/AMEP toolset shames Revit’s crude (all or nothing and manual) Project Standards Transfer as... Read more →
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