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New Exciting Release Slated for Late April

Dezi and I haven’t been blogging too much lately because we have been involved in this beta.  It has meant a lot of appointments with professionals, anticipation and excitement.

This release will come in a compact package but will continue to grow in the upcoming years.  Will probably become expensive in future years but we are hoping the product will be worth the costs.

This release does not use the ribbon interface however has an interactive touch interface which is user friendly and pleasant on the eyes and will make you want to keep playing with it.  The 3 dimensional representation seems lifelike.

Some of the features that will be available include super purge, hopefully the auto-sleep feature will work but has been known to be a bit glitchy.  It is said to have an artificial intelligence-like learning capability that is supposed to advance the more it is used.    Many other features will keep us up at night until we figure them out.    User customizable carrying cases can be added as well as  many accessories, but they must be purchased separately and can vary considerable in price.

The product is a direct result from nested family capabilities yet the final naming of the product is still yet to be decided and if you would like to weigh in feel free to add comments to this blog.  If you want to see a sneak peak of the box shot click the link below to see a preview.

BOX SHOT

 

Autodesk Subscription Advantages

I don’t want to sound like a salesperson here but I think the Autodesk Subscription benefits are easily overlooked by most users.  Usually I go to a firm and only the IT, CAD or BIM Manager even have rights to the companies subscription benefits.  Plus not many users even know what additions are available.  I thought I would write a little post to remind everyone to check them out and to mention a couple of my most used.  As you can see in the image below there are quite a few applications and extensions that are available, (I would like to make a note that they all depend on the software you have on subscription) heck by the time you read this I will bet there are already more they have released.  One of my most commonly used one is the eTransmit for Revit, formerly an Autodesk Lab tool it has been promoted to a subscription benefit.  This tool allows a user to copy a Revit model and dependant files to  a single folder location.  This way when the files is needed for the BIM team it copies the Host file and all linked files to a location, it also marks the Revit Model as transmitted and forces the end user to open it and create it as a new central file, assuming worksharing has been enabled.  I had been using the Structure Generator when it was a Lab tool and I can’t wait to play with it now that it has graduated to a subscription tool.  Take a look at some of the tools and let me know which ones you are using the most.

Revit 2013 Add-ins availble

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…

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