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Bluebeam Revu Tip: Complementing CAD

Carol Hagen

While many Architectural, Engineering and Construction firms use Bluebeam Revu to convert CAD to PDF, there’s an often overlooked capability that is as plain as the nose on your face. It was my pleasure to meet Nathan Woods, CCCA, LEED AP of Taylor Design at the 2014 Bluebeam Extreme conference. right at your fingertips.

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Revit 2014 API Languages

Revit OpEd

Revit 2014 has added a couple new language options for people who can speak to Revit through its API (application programming interface). If you have a long history with CAD you might have spent more than a few hours "Lost in parenthesis" (LISP)? Revit 2014 has added Ruby (aka Ruby on Rails) and Python. Happy coding!

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Last Chance to Submit Class Proposals for AU 2014

BIM & Beam

Want to be a speaker at AU 2014? This track focuses on topics that are important to structural engineers and designers as well as BIM and CAD managers who want to learn more about Autodesk software for Building Information Modeling (BIM). Proposals are due this Friday, May 23. Visit the AU website for a proposal guide and more details.

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Bluebeam Tip: How to Make AutoCAD Text Searchable in PDFs

Carol Hagen

Stay tuned as Bluebeam releases Revu 12 in late February 2014. Bluebeam Revu CAD Construction Industry - Software Autocad Bluebeam Revu Tips Bluebeam Tips PDF Conversion' For other file types, converting to searchable text can often be accomplished by using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which is available in Bluebeam Extreme.

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Visibility Graphics Dialog and Using Current View Only

Revit OpEd

Revit 2014 introduces an enhancement regarding importing CAD data (I believe undocumented). During an Import of CAD, in the past when we used the option "Current View Only" Revit showed a reference to that link in the Visibility Graphics dialog (V/G) regardless of the view we were working in.

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Autodesk 2014 - Read All About it!

CAD Shack

If you haven''t already, read all about the 2014 releases from Autodesk in the AUGIWorld April Issue. There is a particularly well written article by yours truly on the new Revit MEP, along killer articles from Brian Benton, John Evans, Jay Zallan, Marcello Sgambelluri, Elisha Sage, Philip Russo, Andrew Walther, and Michael Smith.

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Installing Revit 2014 Jacks Older Versions Ribbon

CAD Shack

If you don''t have the luxury of NOT using older versions of Revit, and you have installed the new 2014 version only to start having weird ribbon issues the older versions. Check out the fix here Seems like the ribbon get one step behind user activity.

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