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Wish granted! | Revit 2022.1 'Snap to Middle of Two Points'

Revit, finally, got this feature I missed from AutoCAD days. Yes, you could always use dimensions to constrain 'EQ' between two references to place something midway but often that was just a hassle. Midpoint snap just places it, no dim, no delete dim, no unnecessary (if you don't need) constraints to fight later on! More at: What’s New in Revit 2022.1 | blogs.autodesk.com Read more →

If you use BIM 360 Design don’t overlook the Revit 2020.2.1 Hotfix

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 →

The origins of the Revit 2014+ Sample House

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 →

Revit to (Surface) Go?

You think he'd* be more impressed, Revit 2019 running on a Surface Go! * Surface Pen and (small) dog for scale Read more →

An AutoCAD thing I wish Revit had

When you just want to put something in the middle of two other things/points without the hassle of dimensioning and EQ constraining, arraying or whatever… A “Mid between 2 points” snap override would be handy. Read more →

Next generation of Autodesk BIM 360 announced #AU2017

BIM 360 revision announced Read more →

Twenty years on, another Quantum leap #AU2017

About twenty years ago I read a 'brain dump' from Jim Awe about the next generation of AEC design. It described a world of object design, model properties and display management that was realised in Architectural Desktop and, later, Revit. Today at Autodesk University he did it again presenting the emerging Quantum AEC platform. It's not an application, more a system, a playing field, for managing data flow in design projects at a fundamental level applicable to all applications, cloud and desktop. The Quantum leap: forget about applications, files, even data transfer and think about how your entire project life... Read more →

Forge DevCon and why I really came to #AU2017 (Day –1)

It was quite an impulsive decision which resulted in me attending Autodesk University 2017. I had been thinking about it for a while, but not seriously, and was browsing the session catalogue one evening when I saw: FDC128313 -- Quantum: A Next-Generation BIM Ecosystem – Jim Awe & Shiya Luo I immediately clicked Register, then grabbed a seat in this one hour session. Eleven thousand Kilometres is quite a long way to go for a 60 minute meeting and it wasn’t even part of the main AU event! Forge DevCon? The Quantum session was part of Forge DevCon which ran... Read more →

Oh look, it is 2018 already

An Easter surprise ‘present’ from Autodesk! Read more →

Confidence inspiring Building Design Suite 2017 install?

Seriously, System requirements, click… sigh… A bug in the installer? The install completed successfully, hopefully the actual software is less buggy! Read more →