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OCTOBER 31, 2006

This morning I had a chance to go to an AIA breakfast on Itegrated Practice (IP). It was led by Norman Strong, FAIA. Most of the people in attendance were prinipals, owners and managing partners of architectural firms from around our area. The great thing about this talk was that it was focused on how BIM allows IP, and how in reality to fully immplement BIM, and your BIM tool of choice, a firm must realize that what is required is a change in the way we practice.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly Hart, webmaster of the popular website www.greenhomebuilding.com, posts text and photos featuring what he discovers from around the world.

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 26, 2006

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Thursday, October 26, 2006. Revit Template Sharing. If you havent already joined the AUGI Revit forum here is yet another reason to join.

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The Korte Company

OCTOBER 22, 2006

The Korte Company recently completed work on the Thomas & Mack Switch Building, a 53,760 square foot communications facility for Switch Communications Group, a provider of interconnectivity and telecommunications services for businesses throughout the world.

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OCTOBER 18, 2006

constructionattorneyblog. Attorneys at Sabo & Zahn. Sabo & Zahn. Werner Sabo. Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is also a licensed architect, having practiced architecture for a number of years prior to establishing his law practice in 1981. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular co

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OCTOBER 30, 2006

Yes, if you are a regular reader of Revit & BIM blogs, you probably already know about James Van's blog. He was nice enough to leave me a comment, so I'm returning the favor by linking to his blog, "All Things Bim". Thanks to the new RevitCity 2.0 for also posting a link to my blog! -R.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly Hart, webmaster of the popular website www.greenhomebuilding.com, posts text and photos featuring what he discovers from around the world.

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 25, 2006

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Wednesday, October 25, 2006. Linking building and site. This is the procedure we use for linking building and site. 1.

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The Korte Company

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The Korte Company completed work on a 19,747 square foot tenant improvement project for the national home builder Kimball Hill Homes. This work will occupy the entire 2nd floor of the newly constructed Beltway Corporate Center at the corner of Pebble and Eastern, another project which was constructed by The Korte Company.

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OCTOBER 26, 2006

I thought I would share a technique we've appplied to all of our family creation which helps a little bit with keeping track of families, and knowing where they came from. In any new family that gets created at my firm, or if a family is downloaded from a site like RevitCity or AUGI, we ask that the users add three text parameters under the "Identity Data" heading; Version Number Source Author In the case of creating a new family in the firm, version number would typically start at 1.0, Source w

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OCTOBER 25, 2006

Google has released a new custom search tool. I've added it to my blog to the left. Right now it searches a very limited number of websites. Over the next few days (ahhh, weeks. :) ) I will try to tweak it. I've given it a limited number of Revit related keywords which are supposed to help with the search results. If you give it a try leave a comment and let me know what you think.

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OCTOBER 23, 2006

There is a very simple method that can be employed to improve family performance when loaded in a project, the technique makes it much easier for Revit to "draw" views as it doesn't have to calculate anything with regards to cutting through the family's geometry. Using symbolic lines to represent what the family looks like in a specific view type (plan/R CP, elevation front/back, elevation left/right) with visibility settings set to turn off 3D geometry, allows Revit to automatically render the

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 21, 2006

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Saturday, October 21, 2006. Instant Section Box. Scott Brown posted this on Zoogdesign ages ago but I thought it was pretty useful so Ill post it.

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 20, 2006

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Friday, October 20, 2006. An ArchiCAD Blogger. Miguel Krippahl of Portugal is an ArchiCAD user and blogger who wants to know where are the ArchiCAD blogs are so if you find one or want to start one drop him a line.

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 19, 2006

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Thursday, October 19, 2006. Autodesk Impression. Matt Rumbelow reports on his blog The Digital Architect that Autodesk Impression is now available for download.

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OCTOBER 18, 2006

Because I like what she has to say, I've also joined the chorus of fellow Revit bloggers and added Laura's blog about using Revit in the contracting world to my list of links. Thanks to David & Steve where I found her, don't know who was the first one to pick up on her blog. Hopefully my firm can do some work with Tocci, seeing as we have a Boston office.

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 17, 2006

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Tuesday, October 17, 2006. A builders perspective on BIM. Contractors are starting to take a serious look at the BIM movement.

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The Korte Company

OCTOBER 16, 2006

Egineering News Record (ENR), a subsidiary of McGraw Hill Construction, has released its 2006 Sourcebook, which includes a ranking of the larges U.S.-based architectural, construction and engineering firms. Since 1986, The Korte Company has consistently established itself as a top contractor, and was most recently ranked as the 8th largest distribution center/warehouse contractor in the country.

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

When creating parametric families we've found that the best way to control the dynamic geometry is to create a skeleton of reference planes to which dimensional parameters are attached. Once the skeleton works as expected we create geometry that we attached and lock to the reference planes. However recently we've discovered one minor issue that family authors should be aware of when using reference planes in creating families.

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 13, 2006

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Friday, October 13, 2006. Building Pad Tips. A building pad will cut the topography down or raise topography up to the elevation you need for cut and fill.

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CAD Shack

OCTOBER 13, 2006

This Service pack catches ABS 2007 up to ADT and AutoCAD's previously released service packs. It also addresses issues with Panels, the Content Browser and Multi-View Parts. For a complete list of fixes and improvements, review the Readme file. Down load this service pack by clicking this link ABS 2007 Service Pack 1.

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OCTOBER 11, 2006

You might notice a few differences, I took the plunge and upgraded my blog to the current Beta, I like it a little better, and I hope you do to. If you're not using IE or Firefox you may have problems viewing the blog, sorry folks, blogger says they're working to fix it all. Construction Administration (CA) of a Revit project seems to be becoming a hot topic.

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 10, 2006

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Tuesday, October 10, 2006. Revit Performance. Because we do a lot of high-end residential design most of our projects are very detailed and put Revits performance to the test.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 9, 2006

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly Hart, webmaster of the popular website www.greenhomebuilding.com, posts text and photos featuring what he discovers from around the world.

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OCTOBER 5, 2006

So the other big thing that happened before going to San Fran & the west coast was that I held an intensive day long advanced family creation clinic (my pastor thought this was a little sketchy sounding ;) ) based around my firm's family standards as defined by the family outline specification that was one of my first blog posts. The training session started with about an hour and half going through a power point that I created that illustrates best practices for creating solid parametric famili

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 4, 2006

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Wednesday, October 04, 2006. Materials in Families. When building your families you might notice there are many ways to apply materials to your solids.

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