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CAD Shack: Working With Architectural Title Blocks

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Working With Architectural Title Blocks. It seems I dont get to post to CAD Shack as much as I would like to. 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. CAD Shack VIPs. Resources. (41). CAD Shack Blog Buddies.

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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: December AUGIWorld features Industry Insights

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Melinda Heavrin, AutoCAD Architecture expert, thoroughly discusses "Material Matters". Labels: AUGIWorld , Resources , Revit MEP , Tricks and Tips. CAD Shack VIPs. Resources. (41). CAD Shack Blog Buddies. RobiNZ CAD Blog. The MEP CAD Engineer. Autodesk Fabrication 2013 at Autodesk University 2013.

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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". CAD Shack VIPs. Resources. (41). CAD Shack Blog Buddies. RobiNZ CAD Blog. The MEP CAD Engineer.

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CAD Shack: BIMBO

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Some weeks back I was planning on having lunch with a CAD/BIM manager from a competing firm HDR. I spent quite a bit of time at his firm consulting, and we still like to get together to discuss CAD and BIM issues. Labels: BIM , How To , Rant , Resources , Revit. CAD Shack VIPs. Resources. (41). RobiNZ CAD Blog.

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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. CAD Shack VIPs. Resources. (41). CAD Shack Blog Buddies. RobiNZ CAD Blog. The MEP CAD Engineer. Autodesk Fabrication 2013 at Autodesk University 2013.

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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. CAD Shack VIPs.

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