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Autodesk BIM 360 – Driving Collaboration for Construction Industry

Dave Talbot

General BIM

What is BIM 360? This article gives an introduction to Autodesk BIM 360 and the challenges that drove the development of the platform, the downside of existing construction collaboration methods and an insight into the problems that BIM 360 ov... More

How Do CAD Skills Assessments Help Drive Productivity?

Chris Hobbs

General

Knowledgesmart recently released some really interesting results taken from their Skills Assessments for the top 5 products released by Autodesk. They have broken them down by country, score (%), and time taken on the exam. The results also look at t... More

Revit to Excel link

Simon Dickinson

BIM

Graitec’s Advance PowerPack for Revit 2017 has a long list of additionally tools and functionality requested by users. One particular element that has been enhanced is the Revit to Excel link. Historically the only way to link Revit schedules to exce... More

Customising the Revit Ribbon

Pat Mullins

General BIM

Customising the Revit Ribbon Customise the Ribbon by changing its display and rearranging its Tabs and Panels. Set options for Ribbon display and behaviour, control placement of Palettes, configure the Quick Access Toolbar and learn how to reset the... More

Graitec Virtual Reality for the Structural, Manufacturing, Architecture and Retail Industries

James Wood

General CAD Services

GRAITEC VR Here at Graitec Professional Services we have been busy developing our Virtual Reality system. We now have the ability to teleport around entire buildings, pick items up, import models with a menu system, change surface colours and finish... More

To BIM or Not To BIM - That Is The Question

Dave Talbot

BIM

OK, I admit that it is not quite a grammatically correct title, but for an increasing number of businesses in the construction sector tendering for private or upcoming government capital projects, to BIM or not to BIM is a very pertinent and sensible... More

Revit LT And Revit Is Not Just For BIM Projects

Keith Deaney

BIM

Since its launch in September this year, Revit LT continues to confuse many existing and potential consumers of Revit technology, but early adopters and traditional 2D AutoCAD stalwarts are already reaping the benefits of the technology, which is of ... More

BIM For Manufacturing - An Emerging Market For Manufacturers

Steve Houlder

BIM

Do you manufacture products that go into Buildings? If so you need to think about how BIM for manufacturers could open up a potentially lucrative and emerging market sector for your business. In the construction marketplace the adoption of BIM metho... More

What’s New In Autodesk Inventor 2019

Adam Butcher

Thursday, 19 April 2018

General Mechanical

It’s that time of the year again to look at the new features for Autodesk Inventor 2019. We always look forward to these releases to see which improvements and new features have been added to help us with our day to day tasks. Inventor users from around the world have again provided feedback, which has contributed to the enhancements for the 2019 experience. This is a quick overview of the new fea...

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Inventor Tips Inventor

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Creating an Animation for Highwood Homes – North Stoneham Park

James Wood

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

General CAD Services

Creating an Animation for Highwood Homes – North Stoneham Park

Here at Graitec we were tasked with creating an animation for Highwood homes. Highwood was founded over 30 years ago as a privately-owned company with a commitment to acquire land selectively, build sensitively and sustainably whilst setting benchmarked standards of design and construction. The project in question was a new site in Eastleigh called North Stoneham Park, the site is set within a his...

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Design and Vis 3ds Max InfraWorks

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Advance Workshop for Robot 3D Laser

Stefano D’Apote

Thursday, 12 April 2018

Software Development

Architects and designers have now accustomed us to buildings and infrastructures of the most varied forms that defy the laws of physics and that in most cases are made of steel. But what happens after drawing a curved bridge or a curved skyscraper as a simple sketch on paper? Generally, after the preliminary design, we move on to the executive project through the use of BIM (Building Information M...

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Software development Advance Workshop

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How To Use The Revit Linework Tool

Alan Johnson

Tuesday, 10 April 2018

General BIM

There are several tools available in Revit to manipulate, modify, and manage the way elements display in the drawing area. The Linework tool is one useful tool that does not create new model or detail lines in the view. Instead, it overrides the current line style of the selected line and applies a different line style. You can use the Linework tool to change the line style of projection edges for...

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Revit 2018 Revit tips

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Model Optimisation Services at Graitec

Emma-Louise Osbourne

Tuesday, 10 April 2018

CAD Services

Many of the visuals we produce here in the Graitec Design and Vis department involve the use of mechanical models, whether this be for product visuals, animations or virtual reality. When these models come to us direct from the customer they will have been modelled to a high degree of detail and accuracy in either Inventor, Sketch Up, or another 3D modelling programme. When we convert the models i...

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Design and Vis 3ds Max

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Getting to Grips with the Newest iLogic-Specific Features in Inventor 2019

Alex Fielder

Monday, 09 April 2018

Mechanical

Getting to Grips with the Newest iLogic-Specific Features in Inventor 2019

The 26th March 2018 marked the official release of Autodesk’s latest instalment in the Inventor Professional product family, the 2019 version. This year has seen the BETA site awash with fresh faces discussing the improvements added to the roadmap by the Autodesk development team a year ago. The additions are many and fall into the category of (sometimes long overdue) “bug fix” or “new feature” an...

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Inventor Inventor Tips Manufacturing

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A Guide To Advance Steel Dimensions

Aleck Giles

Friday, 06 April 2018

General Advance Steel

The parametric dimensioning tools in Advance Steel are incredibly effective, handling different scales and clipped (shortened) views without the user even thinking about it. Unfortunately, the trade off for this functionality seems to be that certain dimension commands are a bit more fiddly to use than the plain AutoCAD equivalents. This seems to particularly affect the Arc Length, Angle and Radiu...

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Advance Steel Advance Steel 2018.

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Revit Tip - Placing an Angled Dimension

Alan Johnson

Friday, 06 April 2018

General BIM

Whilst using Revit, have you ever tried to place a dimension on an angled wall which is part of a larger wall system, but found that you couldn't configure the dimension to run parallel to the angled wall? One option for correcting this would be to remove one of the walls adjacent to the angled wall, then select the angled wall, and a temporary dimension that is aligned with the angled wal...

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Revit tips Revit 2018

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Revit Circuit Referencing Using Dynamo Part Three

Simon Locke

Tuesday, 27 March 2018

General BIM

In the previous tutorial in this series we looked at creating a Dynamo script to help us to manipulate the Revit circuit data and allow us to use it in the panel schedule. In this article, we are going to use a slightly modified version of the previous script, which will work on Revit wires. We will also modify a wire tag to complement it. Once created, our Dynamo scripts can be used time and time...

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Revit tips Revit 2018

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Push the Boundaries of Possibility: Introducing the HP Z4 G4

Ian Bottomley

Monday, 26 March 2018

Computer Hardware

Push the Boundaries of Possibility: Introducing the HP Z4 G4

The new Z4 G4 workstation pushes desktop processing power to new heights, delivering the tools to ramp up digital designs, changing the rules of what’s possible. Wrapped within a sleek black shell this new workstation offers unparalleled processing power. Capable of unlocking the full potential of your software and supporting graphic intensive tools within the new Autodesk Industry Collections. D...

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HP Workstations Computer Hardware CAD Computers CAD Workstations CAD Hardware

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Autodesk BIM 360 – Driving Collaboration for Construction Industry

How Do CAD Skills Assessments Help Drive Productivity?

Revit to Excel link

Customising the Revit Ribbon

Graitec Virtual Reality for the Structural, Manufacturing, Architecture and Retail Industries

To BIM or Not To BIM - That Is The Question

Revit LT And Revit Is Not Just For BIM Projects

BIM For Manufacturing - An Emerging Market For Manufacturers

What’s New In Autodesk Inventor 2019

Creating an Animation for Highwood Homes – North Stoneham Park

Advance Workshop for Robot 3D Laser

How To Use The Revit Linework Tool

Model Optimisation Services at Graitec

Getting to Grips with the Newest iLogic-Specific Features in Inventor 2019

A Guide To Advance Steel Dimensions

Revit Tip - Placing an Angled Dimension

Revit Circuit Referencing Using Dynamo Part Three

Push the Boundaries of Possibility: Introducing the HP Z4 G4

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