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There has been a major advancement in the way Advance Design calculates Seismic and Spectral analysis. With the introduction of a new solver which uses used load dependant RITZ vectors to calculate on...

With the latest release of Graitec’s Advance Design structural analysis software having just arrived I thought this would be a great opportunity to showcase some of the latest features in Advance Desi...

Did you know that you can export shared parameters from a family or a project to a new or existing shared parameter file in Autodesk Revit ? 1. To start, create or open a shared parameter file (this i...

I was recently asked how you would create a brick wall in Autodesk Revit with fence panels and brick columns, to be used for a garden wall. We toyed with a few ideas, such as stacked walls, edit profi...

Whilst setting up a model in Autodesk Revit , one of the most important steps you will need to take, especially when collaborating with other parties on a BIM project, is to establish the location of ...

New for Autodesk Revit 2020 is the propagate joint option , but also alongside this is the ability to create a series of connection configurations, as a duplication and stored with a different referen...

It’s here… and a lot earlier than previous years, thankfully. Autodesk have released the Country Kit for the UK & Ireland (UKIE) for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2020. The UKIE Country Kit is available for do...

Steel Connections in Revit via the new Dynamo plugin for 2020. There is an option to create steel connections via the new package provided by Autodesk for Revit 2020, they have a nice blog explaining ...

You know the feeling when you open your software and all the docked windows are gone, and tools added to the Quick Access tool bar are missing too. Well in Autodesk Navisworks  there's no need to...

A fairly underused tool in Navisworks is the Appearance Profiler, which allows you to set up custom appearance profiles based on sets (search and selection) and property values and use them to colour ...