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Revit Beginners: Materials in Families

Revit Beginners

Materials in Families. When building your families you might notice there are many ways to apply materials to your solids. Here are 4 ways to apply materials and some reasons for using each. go to its properties and specify a material for your solid form in the Material parameter under the Materials & Finishes group.

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Revit Beginners: Should I enable Hardware Acceleration?

Revit Beginners

Labels: Hardware , Materials , Rendering , Visibility. Useful for "expert-cad-managers-and-beginer-bim-managers" like me. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. CAD Block Exchange. Friday, April 16, 2010. Should I enable Hardware Acceleration?

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Revit Beginners: Demons In Your Data?

Revit Beginners

I realized at that point that I had a demon in my data, so I went into the offending material (glass) and set the surface pattern of the glass material to none (it was the surface pattern that was not cooperating), then changed the surface pattern back to solid fill to get this glass material to show properly everywhere.

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Revit Beginners: Cost Estimating

Revit Beginners

If you want to estimate the total cost of the project by materials used then setup one of Revits new Material Takeoff Schedules: 1. Some materials are estimated in Cost Per Linear Foot, some in Cost Per Square Foot, some in Cost Per Cubic Yard so I would first setup new project parameters for each estimate (Cost PLF & Cost PSF).

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Revit Beginners: Revit 2009 Rendering

Revit Beginners

Labels: Materials , Patterns , Rendering. With the exception of the rake and ridge, my tiles are just a material. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. CAD Block Exchange. I had to scale the roof tiles to 16 and the grass to 6". David Duarte.

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Revit Beginners: Revit Template Sharing

Revit Beginners

Edward Borg of Precision Drafting LLC has a dedicated FTP site for sharing cool Revit Project Templates and Families. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD vs BIM. Thursday, October 26, 2006. Autodesk Seek.

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Revit Beginners: Autodesk Impression

Revit Beginners

I just ran across this old post while searching for a way to upload Impression for a Presentation project Im doing in Architectural Drafting school. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD vs BIM. Bluegrassrules.

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