CAD Shack

DECEMBER 20, 2005

Why should I walk away from a proven product like AutoCAD, when I have so much invested in it? These are very valid questions that many CAD Managers and Owners are asking themselves lately. I can export ABS objects to AutoCAD choosing to flatten them to 2D AutoCAD entities or convert them to be read by an appropriate object enabler.

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Revit Beginners

AUGUST 22, 2006

Translating standard details from AutoCAD to Revit: Now, you can import DWGs into Revit and not do anything else to them. You can also scan details and import them as images but we completely translated our details from PowerCADD to AutoCAD to Revit by way of DWG files so we could improve on their graphic quality once they were imported.

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Revit Beginners

AUGUST 16, 2006

The office eventually moved on to PCs and we used AutoCAD for a short time. In one year Ive learned what I had to to develop working drawings, weve managed to build up some Revit content, weve organized our templates, and we are successfully developing our details and other drafting standards transfered from PowerCADD to AutoCAD to Revit.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

In AutoCAD you can add text to linetypes but youll notice that in Revit you cant. Type out the text you want in AutoCAD (at a height of say 6") and save as a DWG. Goto Drafting. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. Marathon Drafting. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

CAD with a new blog called Revit Coaster. J B Zallan of Los Angeles is a Revit, Architectural Desktop, AutoCAD consultant and Autodesk Approved Instructor whos sharing his thoughts at CAD vs BIM. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. Marathon Drafting. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond.

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Revit Beginners

APRIL 8, 2009

The ribbon makes the learning easier and in a form that can be related to by the users that come from the autocad side. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. Marathon Drafting. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD Beyond. CAD vs BIM. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 Autodesk Seek.

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Revit Beginners

APRIL 10, 2010

A common thing for beginners, is to go right to the trim tool in search of a fillet option (because they are likely more familiar with AutoCAD). National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. Marathon Drafting. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD Beyond. CAD vs BIM. Autodesk Seek.

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Revit Beginners

AUGUST 3, 2010

Though it may still sound too heavy, we got some help from laser scanning equipment , autocads and even BIM to cure some problems. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. Marathon Drafting. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD Beyond. CAD vs BIM. Anyway, thanks for sharing!

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Revit Beginners

JULY 11, 2006

Hi David, Ive compiled (and still adding) a detailed list of all Revit and AutoCAD resources (tutorials, downloads, blogs, forums, articles and more) and thought Id share these resources with you - that you could post to your blog or share with others. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. Marathon Drafting.

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Do

JULY 26, 2011

The first thing is I dont think the next big innovation will really be in what we might call the traditional "CAD (Computer Aided Design)" space. We have Autocad, we have Sketch-Up, we have Revit, and all the various permutations thereof. What am I interested in?

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CAD Shack

APRIL 27, 2006

Some of you may be too young to remember life before cable, but I bet most can remember a time when your choice of CAD technologies was limited to one. Digital Drafting Whether you liked AutoCAD, MicroStation, or whatever. (I We still drafted, but with digital lines. I was a big fan of Mac Architron.) Digital lines.

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CAD Shack

JANUARY 9, 2007

In the end producing coordinated CDs spending more time on design and less on drafting is the real benefit to MEP firms. AutoCAD is record albums and ABS is CDs. You will want to know what the software is capable of and what it can not do. Just because the software may do something, your firm may not need to use that function.

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Revit OpEd

MAY 9, 2012

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 will still be able to compare our model against 2D documentation by importing various 2D CAD views into the model.

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Revit Beginners

JUNE 27, 2006

When you have a large project and you want multiple users editing a project at the same time you have to impliment Worksets because Revit typically keeps all project data in a single project file unlike Autocad where we typically separate the project into multiple files. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD.

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CAD Shack

JULY 27, 2006

Well right out of the gate, if you want to implement new software and change processes, you'll have some things to nail down and a lot of issues to deal with. 1) Sell the idea of changing software to management Everybody's boss is different but here are some ideas based on ABS. Here's an example.

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CAD Shack

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Revit Systems debuted early this year giving MEP engineers a third choice of CAD technology to use; it may have also caused a bit of confusion on what software is really the best for any given firm. No matter what software you are using, they fall into three general categories: digital drafting, object oriented and parametric.

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