Flush your Undo – AutoCAD
As I roll out the 2014 versions of Building Design Premium, a designer sent me the following warning message from AutoCAD: Warning! The undo file length is 1569321556 bytes. Undo will be automatically...
View ArticleACA: Double Click Schedule Table to Update
Of course you can always set an AutoCAD Architecture Schedule Table to update automatically, but when you choose to leave that property setting set to no, it would be nice to be able to double click...
View ArticleRevit Buildchecker Version 9 for 2015 Products
I updated this tool last year, but didn’t upload it to the blog. Sorry folks, here is a copy that works with products 2008 through 2015. Download V9 here
View ArticleDynamo Barrel Vault Brace 05
We’ve built all the necessary components, an adaptive component profile family, an adaptive component brace family with four adaptive placement points, and an adaptive family containing the profile...
View ArticleDynamo Barrel Vault Brace 06
We should be ready to start adding nodes and making connections now. If you are just arriving at this blog for the first time, I’ve been doing a series of posts on Autodesk Dynamo. You can catchup by...
View ArticleV-Ray for Revit not finding a license?
After installing V-Ray for Revit public beta the other day, I rebooted my workstation and found that everytime I launched Revit, there was a delay and V-Ray would error out with a message indicating...
View ArticleUsing DOS and VBScript to Upgrade your Revit Library for Free
Spring is here and its time to get ready for the next Autodesk product upgrades. If you are a Revit user like me, you probably don’t look forward to upgrading the library with each release. In...
View ArticleUpdate: Using DOS and VBScript to Upgrade your Revit Library for Free
Minor update to scripts and addition of scripted upgrade for template (rte) files as well as automated cleanup of associated files. Please grab a copy of the updated zip file here: RevitUpgradeScripts.
View ArticleUpgrading Application Macros for New Versions of Revit
This time of year requires a large number of upgrades. I recently wrote about upgrading the Revit library and templates, but there are many file types in the design ecosphere. Today we focus on...
View ArticleWalk and Fly are available only in perspective views.
All of a sudden, this dialog box started popping up again while performing a 3DOrbit inside AutoCAD Architecture. After checking this thread for a solution and finding none, I offered the following:...
View ArticleDYNAMO FOR ELEMENT BY LEVEL SELECTION
I received a request to assist an architect in fixing their model yesterday. They were attempting to adjust a level elevation, but found other objects were also moving. The request went something...
View ArticleDynamo Checkerboard Curtain Wall Panel Tutorial
This post will describe a fairly simple graph for offsetting alternating curtain panels in a curtain wall. The idea was generated by a request for a checkerboard rowlock brick wall accent. I’ll...
View ArticleMacro: Create Isolated 3DView based on Workset
Finally got around to adding the code to modify a great routine published by Harry Mattison back in 2015. I’ve been using the routine to generate the isolated 3D views, but from the first time I ran...
View ArticleDynamo Based Project Review
As I was updating existing templates and building some new ones, I wanted a better way to determine what fonts/text styles are in use and where they are being used. Exploring some existing dynamo...
View ArticleCondensed Version of Project Standards Graph
In my last post, I mentioned a simpler graph to complete the same workflow. This workflow starts with the category and achieves the same result, in a lot fewer nodes. Grab a copy here:...
View ArticleDIMENSION STANDARDS TOOLS
I’m bringing some more standards tools to you today. A quick copy and adjust of the original text tools graph resulted in three tools for dimension styles. The first allows the user to select a...
View ArticleVote for AU 2017 Class Proposals – Vote Now!
Looking for ways to automate your installations and customization within Revit or AutoCAD products? Wish you could control the project launch process? Need to maintain Revit project versions without...
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