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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: The Project That Almost Could

Revit Beginners

We have one model that was started in Revit before we knew any of the limitations of Revit. To add to the complexity, the as-built drawings we had on file were not accurate to the true construction of the existing structure because the original architect had improvised the design during construction. Architectural Desktop.

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Revit Beginners: Revit 2010: New Coordinates Icons

Revit Beginners

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. Architectural Desktop. here is the simplest way I can put it: 1. There are now 3 coordinate systems in Revit. Clipping the Survey Point.

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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: The Revit Experiment II

Revit Beginners

This isnt necessarily a bad habit as long as they are using detail lines and not model lines (detail lines are view specific but model lines will show up everywhere). The Revit 3D model is just a place to start. Even advanced users use detail lines, filled regions, and detail components to refine their drawings.

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Revit and AutoCAD

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When Autodesk decided to buy Revit Technology Corporation they confused many of their own customers who, until then, were using AutoCAD or Architectural Desktop (aka ADT, now AutoCAD Architecture aka ACA). What about the hours of design and investigation required to decide what to draw?

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