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CAD Shack: MEP Annotation Symbols vs. 3D Architectural Families

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MEP Annotation Symbols vs. 3D Architectural Families. Have you ever plotted and found something like the image below where an architectural object is some how thinking it is more important the your MEP object? Put those pesky architectural objects in there place quickly by making them transparent in Visibility Graphics.

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CAD Shack: Working With Architectural Title Blocks

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Working With Architectural Title Blocks. This may be cheating, but check out this post I just did for Club Revit on dealing with architectural title blocks and their shared parameters. AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems. AutoCAD MEP Links. AutoCAD MEP Updates and Service Packs. AutoCAD MEP Discussion Group.

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CAD Shack: December AUGIWorld features Industry Insights

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Melinda Heavrin, AutoCAD Architecture expert, thoroughly discusses "Material Matters". In "Stuck in Neutral, Christopher Fugitt offers his view on AutoCAD Civil 3D and what is needed to make that product all it could be. AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems. AutoCAD MEP Links. AutoCAD MEP Updates and Service Packs.

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CAD Shack: Unassigned Linked Rooms

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A few weeks ago we noticed that we had a linked architectural model with named and numbered rooms. We changed the linked architectural files volume computations to "Areas Only" instead of "Areas and Volumes". AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems. AutoCAD MEP Links. AutoCAD MEP Updates and Service Packs. Revit MEP. (88).

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CAD Shack: BIM Lawsuit goes after MEP Firm

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I came across this article recently in Architectural Record regarding a lawsuit in which the contractor used BIM against the design team and won. AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems. AutoCAD MEP Links. AutoCAD MEP Updates and Service Packs. AutoCAD MEP Discussion Group. AutoCAD MEP Webcasts. Revit MEP. (88).

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CAD Shack: Central States Revit Workshop 2012 - Registration is.

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There will be 3 tracks of sessions according to "Flavor" of Revit - Architectural, MEP, and Structural. AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems. AutoCAD MEP Links. AutoCAD MEP Updates and Service Packs. AutoCAD MEP Discussion Group. AutoCAD MEP Webcasts. AUGIs AutoCAD MEP Tip of the Month. 22 nd 2012.

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CAD Shack: Breaking up the Group

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I have noticed that when I get architectural models with excessive grouping that they bog down my MEP models. I try to keep the my linked architectural model as clean as possible and one thing that seem to help is breaking up groups. Open the architectural model and expand groups in the project browser. AutoCAD MEP Links.

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