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Revit Beginners: XL2CAD for Revit

Revit Beginners

Dotsoft has ported their AutoCad excel software to Revit. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Other BIM Software. 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. David Duarte. at 5:05 PM.

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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: 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: 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. Goto Drafting. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Other BIM Software. Monday, September 11, 2006. Utility Lines Workaround. Repeating Detail.

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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. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Other BIM Software. Troy Gates of Costa Mesa is an Application Engineer for L.A. CAD with a new blog called Revit Coaster. Design Reform.

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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. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Other BIM Software. From a beginner that has been using Autodesk products for many years. BIMtroublemaker. Design Reform. Family Jewels. Green Revit. Inside the Factory.

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don't think: Do Revit: QUACK!

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We have Autocad, we have Sketch-Up, we have Revit, and all the various permutations thereof. Most people do not want to understand why they should take the extra step to input data in some new fangled software. Revit Zone. What am I interested in? This also helps in lessening the issue of maintaining two models simultaneously.

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