Monthly Archives: March 2012

Revit 2013 – Reinforcement

One of the big new features for Revit Structure is the addition of Welded Wire Mesh.  This utility allows us to model not just wire mesh but set the size of the sheets and the overlaps.   We also get 3D rebar with area and path reinforcement instead of the old pseudo stuff these tools used to have.   And of course if you are on the Building Design Suite these tools are for everyone.

Revit 2013 Help-Suites Workflow

Since Autodesk went online with the help files years ago they are available once the software is available for download.  If you don’t want to download you can still check out the What’s New for most programs.

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Revit/enu/2013/Help/00002-New_in_Revit_2013

With the new Building Design Suites there is also a suites workflow.

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Building_Design_Suite/enu/2013/Help/0153-Suites_W153

 

Revit 2013

For those of you who haven’t heard if you have the Building Design Suite Premium or Ultimate then you will only have one Revit program.  This includes RST, RAC and RME and the install can be customized.  Your subscription account already has Product Enhancements available (even thought the sute doesn’t ship until April 14th).

If you are wondering what 360 was, it is the new verbage for the former Autodesk Cloud services.  Now the cloud storage, rendering, analysis are all part of Autodesk 360

Dependant Views

While working with a client today I noticed how they were creating Dependant Views. When they learned this tip they were really upset… upset that they didn’t know about this years ago.

The first step on this is to create the original floor plan and all of its dependencies.  Set up the Matchlines and add the View References.

Once that is set up in the Project Browser right click on the parent view,  select “Apply Dependent Views…”

 

…it will bring up the Select Views dialog box, here you can select the views that need dependencies.  (NOTE: it will only display views of the same scale).  The only thing left to do is rename all the duplicated views, if you use scope boxes and view templates apply them accordingly.