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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: Civil 3D Quantity Takeoff

Construction Cost Estimating

Quantity takeoff is an activity performed by General Contractors, Subcontractors, Cost Consultants, and Quantity Surveyors as part of the construction process. If you are a newbie in the estimating service zone then you should know about construction estimating checklist and how to organize them. Construction Cost Estimating Blog.

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Revit Beginners: XL2CAD for Revit

Revit Beginners

Dotsoft has ported their AutoCad excel software to Revit. Revit Zone. Find Consultants. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Friday, December 19, 2008. XL2CAD for Revit. Place excel spreadsheets into Revit via linked DXF files. at 5:05 PM.

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Revit Beginners: Two New Bloggers

Revit Beginners

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. Revit Zone. Find Consultants. Troy Gates of Costa Mesa is an Application Engineer for L.A. CAD with a new blog called Revit Coaster. Revit Learning Club. Revit OpEd.

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Revit Beginners: The Revit Experiment III

Revit Beginners

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: Utility Lines Workaround

Revit Beginners

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. Revit Zone. Find Consultants. Monday, September 11, 2006. Utility Lines Workaround. unless you use this workaround. Revit Learning Club. Revit OpEd. Revit TOTD.

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Revit Beginners: The Revit Experiment I

Revit Beginners

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: Revit 2010: The Ribbon

Revit Beginners

The ribbon makes the learning easier and in a form that can be related to by the users that come from the autocad side. Revit Zone. Find Consultants. From a beginner that has been using Autodesk products for many years. Revit Learning Club. Revit OpEd. Revit Rants. Revit Rocks. Revit Rockstar. Revit ScratchPad. Revit the Frog.

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