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Revit Beginners: An ArchiCAD Blogger

Revit Beginners

An ArchiCAD Blogger. Miguel Krippahl of Portugal is an ArchiCAD user and blogger who wants to know where are the ArchiCAD blogs are so if you find one or want to start one drop him a line. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Revit Zone. An ArchiCAD Blogger. Materials in Families. Friday, October 20, 2006. at 12:03 PM.

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Revit Beginners: Materials in Families

Revit Beginners

Materials in Families. When building your families you might notice there are many ways to apply materials to your solids. Here are 4 ways to apply materials and some reasons for using each. go to its properties and specify a material for your solid form in the Material parameter under the Materials & Finishes group.

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Revit Beginners: Should I enable Hardware Acceleration?

Revit Beginners

Labels: Hardware , Materials , Rendering , Visibility. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Revit Zone. Friday, April 16, 2010. Should I enable Hardware Acceleration? David Duarte. at 4:50 PM. 1 comment: Gustavo. Great blog! Useful for "expert-cad-managers-and-beginer-bim-managers" like me. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. CAD Digest.

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Revit Beginners: Demons In Your Data?

Revit Beginners

I realized at that point that I had a demon in my data, so I went into the offending material (glass) and set the surface pattern of the glass material to none (it was the surface pattern that was not cooperating), then changed the surface pattern back to solid fill to get this glass material to show properly everywhere.

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Revit Beginners: Revit 2009 Rendering

Revit Beginners

Labels: Materials , Patterns , Rendering. With the exception of the rake and ridge, my tiles are just a material. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Revit Zone. I had to scale the roof tiles to 16 and the grass to 6". I also had to load some of our custom families to detail the elevations. The plants are out of the box. David Duarte.

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Revit Beginners: Cost Estimating

Revit Beginners

If you want to estimate the total cost of the project by materials used then setup one of Revits new Material Takeoff Schedules: 1. Some materials are estimated in Cost Per Linear Foot, some in Cost Per Square Foot, some in Cost Per Cubic Yard so I would first setup new project parameters for each estimate (Cost PLF & Cost PSF).

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Revit Beginners: Instant Section Box

Revit Beginners

ArchiCAD vs Revit. Revit Zone. An ArchiCAD Blogger. Materials in Families. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals. Revit Content Library. Subscription Center. Suggestion Box. Revit Forums & News. AECBytes Reviews. AUGI Revit Forum. CAD Digest. CadPlan Resource List. Revit Community.

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