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Revit Technology Conference

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For those of you who follow me know I am a huge advocate of the Revit Technology Conference.  I believe that anyone in the Revit realm, from the novice to the expert, will find great benefit in attending RTC.  Whether you go to RTC Australia, North America, or any possible new location in the future, it will provide huge benefits.  This week RTC announced VisDay for the Australian conference.

Excerpt from the RTC website:

The inaugural RTC Visualization Day is an adjunct to the Revit Technology Conference, dedicated to best-of-breed visualization technologies and methodologies. It will be held immediately preceding RTC 2012 Australasia. It recognizes the unique attributes of visualization as a process, and the skills of those in the industry. We are proud to have secured some industry heavyweights to share their knowledge and to support an open dialogue in an intimate environment – similar to established RTC events generally. Come and learn from some of the industry’s best, from Australasia and abroad.

There is a small additional fee to attend VisDay, but from what I have seen on the site, it will be more than worth it.

Hopefully we will get something similar for the RTC North American conference.

Revit Basics – Snaps

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This is an excerpt from an article that I wrote for AUGIWorld.

If a new Revit user is an AutoCAD veteran, one piece of good news is that the object snaps are greatly similar from one program to the other; it is just a matter learning what snap options are available in Revit, where to find all of them, and when they are particularly useful.  Tutorial literature likely points out the snaps options dialog box, found on the Manage Tab, which provides much useful information.  What a newer user might not know, or might forget to use, are the two-key shortcuts for snaps and the snaps overrides.  To use a particular snap, type its two-key shortcut while drawing an element (the shortcuts are shown in parentheses in the aforementioned dialog box).  For a particularly useful application of the two-key snap shortcuts, try using the snap centers shortcut to rotate about the base point of an element with a very large radius.  To temporarily turn snaps on or off, right click while drawing an element to find the snaps override options.  These tools are well known for users of other programs, but are forgotten when working in Revit.

Stucture Generator

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I thought it would be fun to create a simple radio tower for Revit Radio and in doing this I figured the Structure Generator preview from Autodesk Labs would be a good tool to try out.  The Structure Generator is a preview tool for both Revit Architecture and Structure that allows structural components to be generated in a project from conceptual masses.  Here is the official quote from Labs…

“Project Structure Generator for Autodesk® Revit® Structure and Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software is a free* technology preview that provides a connection between massing models and objects created during conceptual design and structural elements such as beams, column, walls, plates. With Project Structure Generator, structural engineers and architects, from the earliest stages, can very quickly create and visualize a physical and analytical model of a structure based on the massing model.”

 It was a bit rough of a go around just jumping into the program but once the help file it brought up it helps describe the processes to get this tool to work.  I first started off with a tall box and ran the tool using all the default settings.   I always like to start a tool with the default setting to see how well it works before I start breaking it. This was not that successful, Dezi asked why I was modeling a paper bag?

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Revit Database Link

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For those of you out there who have been using the Revit Data Base Link from the subscription site will be happy to know they have posted a new version for Revit 2012. Please log on to YOUR subscription site and download the new version.

The new release is intended to address the following issues:
  1. The following error when attempting to export:    Error: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. 
  2. A blank RoomFromToAssociations table caused by project phasing.

 

 

Revit Basics – Pick Lines

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This is an excerpt from an article that I wrote for AUGIWorld.

Instead of drawing a line, wall, grid line, etc, between two points, select the Pick Line and then select another line, grid, element, etc to create the desired element.  Add an offset to the pick lines (on the options bar), and very quickly create elements, such as grid lines, with accurate spacing.