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Revit 2013 Add-ins availble

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I started typing that the add-ins for Revit were posted today and I noticed that The Revit Clinic as well as Steve Stafford had already posted this information, since it was already typed out I thought I would go ahead and post it anyway.

The Revit 2013 Add-ins from the subscription site have been posted.  Assuming you use any of these tools and you have upgraded already I would jump on over, download them and get working with more efficiency.

  • Globe Link for Autodesk Revit 2013
  • Batch Print for Autodesk Revit 2013
  • Worksharing Monitor for Autodesk Revit 2013
  • Autodesk Revit Model Review 2013
  • Autodesk Revit DB Link 2013
  • Space Naming Utility for Autodesk Revit MEP 2013 (Make this part of the program already)

Now I just have to wait for the downloads to complete.  This is taking time since I am also downloaded the Building Design Suite…

Autodesk Building Design Suit 2013

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Autodesk said that the Design suites would be available today and they didn’t lie.  However for us die hard geeks we come to expect that to be first thing in the morning when we wake up.  Well it took until the afternoon but they are available for download.  I went to get mine via my subscription site I didn’t look on the Autodesk site directly.

 

I also found it interesting that there are links for 2009 since the suite started in 2011.  I clicked on the link and it allowed me to download the individual programs that are part of the Building Design Suite.  I had to find something to do while I wait 1 hour for it to download.

Revit 2014?

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If a search brought you to this old post here are blog links to new features of 2014

http://bdmackeyconsulting.com/revit-2014-new-features/

http://bdmackeyconsulting.com/revit-2014-new-features-help/

http://bdmackeyconsulting.com/autodesk-2014-uninstaller/

 

In a recent post from AEC Magazine covering a speech from Autodesk CEO Carl Bass, they mention all sorts of things including Autodesk 360 (formerly cloud services), Autodesk 123D capturing service, and the new suites.  But what I found interesting is the fact that Autodesk might get away from the yearly release model and replace it with updates through out the year.

“Death of releases?

It seems that Autodesk’s yearly product dump may also be up for review. Mr Bass sees decreasing reasons for a major ‘R’ release when updates can be easily streamed throughout the year.

So there may not be a 2014 release, which raises all sorts of questions about the traditional ‘obit’ and staying on the upgrade cycle — the moving target that is a yearly release becomes a wave of in-year updates.

The company’s decision to concentrate more on its breadth of applications and increased reach with mobile products also puts an end to the traditional list of new features and enhancements. The push is now on omnipresence of data, workflow and the computational and optimisation benefits of cloud. I hope Autodesk’s new found popularity on mobile devices is not going to make it take its eyes off the core professional business; mobile revenue pales into insignificance to that of any one of Autodesk’s design products alone.”

Does this mean I don’t get to look forward to geeking out on a given day and I get to do it all year long.  This makes me think of how they are working with Vasari and update it as there are significant changes.  I personally like this workflow, as I think that since they are set on a fixed deadline and there are new features they are trying to fit into that schedule, that if they had a bit longer would have more of a chance to be developed and would be worked out with fewer glitches.  This also got me wondering in the Revit world how this would work since we aren’t backwards compatible.  If the program is just being updated as needed how do the releases then work, am I now on a different release than my consulatants?  I guess we will just have to wait and see what news Autodesk releases in the future.

Show Room-Space Tag from previous Phase

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When working with phases in Revit one complaint is that you can’t show rooms from a previous phase.  This is where composite views on sheets works like a charm.  Composite view means more than one view placed on top of each other on a sheet.  Set up a plan view with the phasing set to New Construction and set the Visibility Graphics as desired.  Set up another view with the phasing set to Existing, only display Rooms and Room tags in this view, only tag the existing rooms to be displayed (Note: in Visibility Graphics the Room Tags can be set to Halftone to display similarly to existing phase). Once both of these views are created drag the views onto the desired sheet.  Revit will align the files nicely on the sheets.  The last step is select one of the views, usually the existing room tag view, and change the viewport to one with out a view title.  The room name only view can also be duplicated with dependancies if you need to show the room names on more than one sheet.

 

Workplane Grid Rotation

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While working with a client today they had asked if there was an easy way to get Revit to snap to a given angle.  They are working on a building that has a wing coming off at a 13degree angle.  They were afraid that sometimes they might snap to a 15 degree angle or something else that isn’t correct for the building.  This is where the “Show Work Plane” really comes in handy, this and rotating the work plane grid.  When you rotate a work plane grid, the new orientation affects placement of components and affects the rectangle draw option for walls and lines. For example, if you rotate the work plane grid and then place a component, the component is oriented on the same angle as the work plane grid. If you create a chain of walls with the rectangle option, you can create them in the orientation of the work plane grid only.

Then if you just turn off the work plane then you can go back to the normal horizontal snapping.  Keep this in mind next time you have a building with angles to it.

The alternate is also to go in and set the snap angles under your snap settings, although I prefer the above mentioned method as it is more definite and helps with rectangles and the like.