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AutoCAD Construction Lines – XLine and Ray
I use construction lines quite a lot to translate dimensions from a plan onto an elevation for example, like we used to on a drawing board with first and third angle projection (anybody remember those?). We could just use lines but that would mean specifying a start point and then zooming\panning to specify an end…
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Revit Visualisation in Twinmotion
Twinmotion, is a real time immersive 3D Architectural Visualisation package that works from within Autodesk Revit and Graphisoft ARCHICAD and has very recently been bought by Epic Games. Its another good alternative for high quality visualization to the other key players in the market, Enscape and Lumion. Functional Software Twinmotion is essentially a software of…
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Revit – People Flow Toolkit
Intro The People Flow Toolkit is a set of tools from Autodesk to allow for the analysis of space to check the flow of people within a building. It will be particularly useful when planning for the formation of queues or where people might naturally congregate. In this blog we will have a look at…
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Dynamo – My Top 3 Did you Dyna-know
In this blog I want to give you my top 3 packages in Dynamo (all of which are freely available, links included). These packages allow you to do things that perhaps you might not have known that Dynamo could do. These are use cases that have been created by the Dynamo community and are freely…
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Revit 2022 Revisions – ISO 19650 Compliant in 10 Seconds
You can now follow ISO 19650 revision naming compliance within Revit 2022. It is now possible to follow ISO 19650 revision numbering inside of Revit 2022 out of the box. This is going to greatly increase the usefulness of revision schedules on sheets and allow users to better manage revisions on a global project basis.…
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Navisworks Manage Clash Report
There are a few options when it comes to outputting your Clash rendition reports from Navisworks Manage to allow your teams to utilise the information to alleviate design or construction issues. For design teams who want to utilise some more collaborative tools outside of your native model environment, Navisworks Manage offers up the opportunity to…
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BIMTrack – Using Saved Views for Quicker Coordination
Navigating around BIMTrack is a fairly simple process however there is a little used area to allow you to set up saved views on your own project models that will help with model coordination and navigation which will improve workflows and efficiency. BIMTrack is a great tool to allow you to review project coordination and…
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Autodesk Recap Photo – iPhone 6 vs iPhone 11
Introduction In this blog, I am going to compare reality capture using Autodesk Recap with pictures from an iPhone 6s and an iPhone 11. The spec for the two cameras are below. More than a comparison between the cameras, it’s a test to see how much difference camera quality gives a model and how much…
