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Can We Make Home Building a Little Less ‘Interesting?’

Pro Builder

Now toss in zoning and inspection entities for each unit, plus interfaces with support firms such as surveying, architecture, and engineering. Those of us around for the “dot-com revolution” just over 20 years ago will vividly recall the plethora of latest, greatest technology that promised to change the home building universe forever.

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Revit Beginners: Often Overlooked By Beginners (Part 2)

Revit Beginners

Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. When a wall is selected you might notice two blue dots at either end of the wall. Grab this blue dot and stretch the wall to any length you want. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software.

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How to Draw a House Plan Step by Step

CivilJungle

Projections from the Wall: In the case of the projections from the walls like porches, sun shades, and the shafts from the veranda section which are above the sill level of windows, show them in dotted lines. If you don’t want to pay for blueprint software, then drawing them by hand is the way to go ! Draw to scale.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Matthew Keck, BIM Manager at Metromont 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

We are not a DOT company; we don’t do bridges, we don’t do highways. I continued grading until 2015, then went to school for drafting and design, where I was introduced to Autodesk products and BIM. I had a knack for Revit because of my residential, architecture, and building background.

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Revit OpEd: Should I Use Revit for this Project?

Revit OpEd

When Revit Systems was released in 2006, the essence of Autodesks marketing commentary was, "this is new software so it probably doesnt make sense to tackle a project with it unless the architecture team is using Revit too." We dont have to assume the burden of modelling the architecture or structure to get something out of the effort.

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Revit OpEd: DWG Files and Funky Snapping

Revit OpEd

Funny how this is still such a problem, all this time and people are still pulling their hair out trying to squeeze these cad files through the window so to speak A couple of issues bringing in Architectural drawings that I have found -Blocks within blocks -Large radius arcs, the centre is often very far from the actual line. Revit OpEd.

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Revit Beginners: Cleaning wall intersections

Revit Beginners

Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. Youll see a blue dot indicating the end point of the wall. Right click on this dot, do a "disallow join," then back to "allow join" and the intersection may heal. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. Marathon Drafting.

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