August, 2006

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Water.

Natural Building

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: Cost Estimating

Revit Beginners

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, August 23, 2006. Cost Estimating. There are 3 ways weve found to estimate the cost of a project in Revit.

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Good Jobs First Recognizes Korte and Metro Link

The Korte Company

Parson’s Place, a three-phased residential development designed and built by The Korte Company, was recently recognized by Good Jobs First, the nation’s leading resource center for economic development subsidies and the promotion of smart growth policies that enhance the well-being of working families.

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New Look, Same Great Taste

CAD Shack

I don't know maybe it's the change in seasons. Everything is starting to cool down and I was ready for a change. CAD Shack and The Lazy Drafter are sporting a new look. I hope you like it. Seems to be easier on my eyes. Enjoy!

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Leading the Way in Construction EHS Software

The Verdantix Green Quadrant: EHS Software 2023 is an independent third-party analysis of 23 EHS software vendors (including Intelex) that provides an in-depth look at the technical capabilities, application breadth, innovation focus, and momentum of key environmental, health, and safety management software market players. The guide is essential reading for EHS software benchmarking, especially for understanding unique vendor strengths and capabilities.

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keynotes

Do

This will be a short post. Not enough time in one day to get everything done. We are excited by the prospect that the new keynoting feature that Revit 9 brings to the table, however we are quickly realizing that in a firm of 600 employees it presents certain problems that one might not typically run into in a smaller office environment. For instance, given that we have 7 offices or so, needless to say there are a number of project managers and architects who have their own thoughts and opinion r

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Revit Beginners: The Revit Experiment III

Revit Beginners

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, August 22, 2006. The Revit Experiment III. Translating standard details from AutoCAD to Revit: Now, you can import DWGs into Revit and not do anything else to them.

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Revit Beginners: The Revit Experiment II

Revit Beginners

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. Monday, August 21, 2006. The Revit Experiment II. Using Revits 2D Drafting tools: Because beginners are not completely familiar with all of Revits tools and because they are often faced with a deadline, beginners will likely rely on detail lines and filled regions

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Revit Beginners: The Revit Experiment I

Revit Beginners

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, August 16, 2006. The Revit Experiment I. 7 months into my blogger experiment and I realize that Ive talked a lot about Revit tips and tricks but I havent really talked much about our transition to Revit.

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Revit Beginners: More Keyboard Shortcuts

Revit Beginners

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, August 15, 2006. More Keyboard Shortcuts. 1. Hold the Delete key and delete items one-by-one by clicking on them. 2.

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Optimize Operational Processes With an Industry-Specific ERP

As the use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems in the construction industry is critical to optimizing operations, it's critical that decision makers conduct a thorough software evaluation to find the one that best aligns to their needs.

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Revit Beginners: Revit's Drafting Machine

Revit Beginners

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, August 11, 2006. Revits Drafting Machine. Overlooked by many beginners. For those of you who remember using drafting machines mounted to a drafting table youll find a similar tool in Revit.

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Revit Beginners: A few interesting features

Revit Beginners

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, August 10, 2006. A few interesting features. 1. Draw an arc (wall or line doesnt matter). Goto its properties and you can check "Center Mark Visible" if you need to dimension to the center point of an arc. 2.

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Revit Beginners: Autodesk University Blog

Revit Beginners

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. Monday, August 07, 2006. Autodesk University Blog. For those of you interested in following events at Autodesk University 2006 Joseph Wurchers blog is devoted to a behind-the-scenes look at this years conference.

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A Simple Plan to Implement ABS

CAD Shack

If you are implementing ABS in your office there are certain things you have to do, some things you should do, and some things that are simply optional. This time around, I'll ty and size up the task in front of you. Required Color Tables Decide right away if you are going to use an STB or a CTB. If using a CTB, now is the time to consider if your current CTB makes sense.

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The Ultimate Procurement Software Buyer’s Guide

Choosing the right procurement software is a crucial step in ensuring third-party risk management, process governance, and bidding efficiency. With so many procurement solutions to choose from, it can be overwhelming without a frame of reference and a solid starting point. This free buyer’s guide will cover: Benefits of Procurement Software –– Why do you need it?

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Revit Beginners: Press + Drag

Revit Beginners

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, August 03, 2006. Press + Drag. Do you ever accidentally drag a wall or other model object across the screen when you didnt intend to move it?

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Revit Beginners: Auto Dimension Options

Revit Beginners

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, August 02, 2006. Auto Dimension Options. Select the Dimension tool. In the options bar "Pick: Entire Walls" and select the "Options" button.

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training BIM

Do

We recently had a two day retreat where everyone involved with implementing BIM accross our U.S. offices got together to really start laying the ground work for a firm wide push to adopt the design philosphies of BIM, and therefore the use of Revit. Our CEO has already drawn the line in the sand, he expects us to be 100% BIM in 3 years, this is HUGE , the first reaction is probably one of shock, consider our market sectors for a moment, health care, higher ed, mixed use development, high end mul

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Strawbale.

Natural Building

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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Stop Making These Mistakes and Start Scaling Your Specialty Contractor Business

Anything that is built on a poor foundation will soon crumble from the ground up. This is literally the case in the construction stage of projects and it applies just the same during the pre-construction stage. This free eBook is your ultimate guide to scaling your business with customizable software as early as during the bidding stage.

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Mathmatical Forumlas in Families

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This post actually comes from my friend David who orginally posted it on AUGI. Since I can never keep track of items in forums I decided to repost it here. Enjoy. Not a math genius, or even a Revit one (or else I would have spent way less time figuring this out) but I think I have a way to deal with the "Inconsistent Units" error message. I had a problem in which I needed to calculate the arc lengths of some segments.

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