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Revit Beginners: The Project That Almost Could

Revit Beginners

We currently have 4 Revit projects under construction, but not all of our projects made it through the CD phase. We have one model that was started in Revit before we knew any of the limitations of Revit. The project is an existing 30,000 square foot custom residence built in the 1920s. Digital Project (CATIA).

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Revit Beginners: In-place Cavity Walls

Revit Beginners

Some food for thought: Could it (read that as "it will") be better to let the walls be modeled as they will be built (with dead spaces in between), rather than using in-place walls that simply mimic old methodologies, like CAD or Hand drawn lines filled with poche or hatching? It is more suited to a model that is about graphics.

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Revit Beginners: Revit 2010: New Coordinates Icons

Revit Beginners

Go to a floor plan view and hit the light bulb to reveal the two new coordinate system icons (the survey point triangle and the project base point circle). you can draw a simple building and link in a simple building (by shared coordinates) and move these two icons around a bit (clipped and unclipped) to see how the two models react or.

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Revit Beginners: AU summary

Revit Beginners

The Building Information Modelling/Management concept (its past, present, and likely future). And unique modelling, documenting, and implimenting methods utilized by others in the Revit community. Digital Project (CATIA). I now have a better understanding of: 1. Will Harris. Revit Jobs. Craigslist Script.

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Revit Beginners: The Data Manager

Revit Beginners

In an Architectural Record article " Getting on Board with Building Information Modeling " Larry Flynn describes a Data Manager as someone "responsible for coordinating the various computer files and models that are integrated into a BIM." In our office Data Managers are starting to inspect models for proper construction.

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Revit Beginners: My Work

Revit Beginners

It occured to me that I never once posted pictures of any project I worked on, so here are two images from a model I built back in Revit 4.5. Ive been doing construction documents in Revit for the past three years and dont have any renderings to show from that time. "i Digital Project (CATIA). David Duarte.

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Revit Beginners: Loading Libraries

Revit Beginners

Load Family and youll notice icons on the left for Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, My Network Places, Imperial Library, Imperial Detail Library, and Training Files. Open and youll see the same icons so you can add all your project directories too. It has helped to model furniture familt easily. Digital Project (CATIA).

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