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AutoCAD visits Father Christmas

Monday, 19 December 2016

BIM

AutoCAD visits Father Christmas in this festive tutorial for a bit of fun that explores an assortment of drafting tools and the command line options that provide greater scope of usage over the defaul...

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Free Revit Plug-ins for COBie and more

Wednesday, 31 August 2016

BIM

The Free COBie Plug in for Revit 2017 is now available, but from a different place, it has moved to the BIM Interoperability Tools website. This useful resource site is now owned by Autodesk and in ad...

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Controlling visibility with Associated Parameters in Revit Families

Friday, 22 July 2016

General BIM

In this short video I demonstrate how to set up a visibility switch to an element in a Revit Family. This technique makes use of the Yes/No parameter that we can associate to any part of a Revit Famil...

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AutoCAD LT Vs Full AutoCAD, which one will you choose?

Monday, 03 August 2015

General

AutoCAD LiTe or Full AutoCAD , and then should it be the Windows version or Apple MAC? The type of work you do can help determine which AutoCAD is best for you, providing you know what the differences...

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Exporting Revit Families to DWG

Friday, 14 November 2014

Support

To help share your Revit files to other CAD platforms such as AutoCAD, Revit has some export tools to help the process; The DWG files for projects are layered well but when it comes to your custom Fam...

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Flexing Revit Windows Until they Break

Monday, 29 September 2014

Support

Autodesk Revit comes packed with extra building and annotation tools including Windows, unfortunately in Revit 2015 the Windows do not work as they should, some flex but others break. As part of the d...

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AutoCAD 3D Tip - How to slice curved solid objects

Friday, 26 September 2014

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AutoCAD 3D Tip - How to slice curved solid objects

Using the AutoCAD 3D Slice tool can sometime be a little tricky on square objects but on solid objects with curved faces, now that can be appear to be a real challenge, but it doesn't need to be, it j...

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Missing Revit Templates And Content Libraries

Thursday, 29 May 2014

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Missing Revit Templates And Content Libraries Many of you may have just installed the latest version of Building Design Suite to find that your Revit 2015 templates and content libraries are missing. ...

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AutoCAD 2015 Classic Toolbar Missing

Thursday, 01 May 2014

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As many of you are upgrading to the latest version AutoCAD (2015) you may have realised that the classic and often favoured toolbars are no longer available from the normal workspace. Instead it has b...

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