September, 2006

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Return from the dead. BIM planning!

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So. I've been AWOL for a month, between deadlines & a wonderful vacation to San Francisco and Napa Valley I was a bit busy. :). However lots has been going on in the world of BIM at my firm. First! Well there was stuff here, but it went away, if you were lucky enough to read it, well you were lucky. If not, sorry, come work at my firm, you'll learn even more. substitue text, not quite as interesting sorry: We continue our efforts to document our procedures and how to use Revit on a project.

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Revit Beginners: Embedded Walls

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, September 29, 2006. Embedded Walls. Walls can be embedded into other walls using the Cut Geometry command. Overlap two walls of different types.

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J. Ronnie Rucker Joins Korte Management Team

The Korte Company

The Korte Company has added J. Ronnie Rucker, FAIA to its management team. Rucker, whose experience in the construction industry spans 42 years, has been appointed Director of Corporate Affairs. After serving in key management positions for a number of nationally recognized architectural and design firms, Rucker has joined The Korte Company to expand our client services.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: California.

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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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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Rejoin Broken Duct and Pipe

CAD Shack

It happens. You delete a VAV box or valve and you want to rejoin two sections of duct or pipe. It’s just not very intuitive how so you end up stretching or redrawing. There is actually a function for rejoining although I don’t think it is widely used or known. To rejoin duct/pipe, select your duct or pipe and right click. Select Duct Length… or Pipe Length… depending on what you are doing.

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Revit Beginners: Surveys and Site Plans

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, September 27, 2006. Surveys and Site Plans. We quite often import survey data into Revit from DWG files given to us by the surveyor.

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Revit Beginners: Freedom Tower Webcast

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, September 27, 2006. Freedom Tower Webcast. For those of you interested in seeing how structural and mechanical engineers are collaborating in Revit to design the Freedom Tower there is a webcast Thursday, October 5, 2006 from 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

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Revit Beginners: Modifying the Date Stamp

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, September 25, 2006. Modifying the Date Stamp. Sometimes users ask if the date stamp that appears on plots can be modified. 1.

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Revit Beginners: AU Connect now online

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, September 26, 2006. AU Connect now online. AU Connect is now online for those of you going to Autodesk University.

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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: Ductwork and Flues

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, September 26, 2006. Ductwork and Flues. Found an interesting feature in sweeps today. Create a sweep with an arched path.

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Revit Beginners: Loading Libraries

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, September 22, 2006. Loading Libraries. Goto File. Load from Library. Load Family and youll notice icons on the left for Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, My Network Places, Imperial Library, Imperial Detail Library, and Training Files.

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St. Clare Church Prepares for Octoberfest as Construction Continues

The Korte Company

The St. Clare parish will be hosting their annual Oktoberfest celebration on Saturday, September 30 at St. Clare School, which will feature homemade German cuisine, a wine garden, silent auction, basket raffle, bingo and live entertainment. Oktoberfest offers a full evening of fun and opportunity to celebrate our community’s German heritage. This event is also a major fund-raiser for the new church, which is currently being constructed by The Korte Company, headquartered in Highland, Illinois.

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Revit Beginners: Family Templates

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, September 20, 2006. Family Templates. Lets say you have an office standard for how doors and windows should appear in plan view and you want to incorporate this or any other standard as part of your door and window templates.

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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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Revit Beginners: Two New Bloggers

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, September 18, 2006. Two New Bloggers. Troy Gates of Costa Mesa is an Application Engineer for L.A. CAD with a new blog called Revit Coaster.

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Revit Beginners: Utility Lines Workaround

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, September 11, 2006. Utility Lines Workaround. In AutoCAD you can add text to linetypes but youll notice that in Revit you cant. unless you use this workaround.

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Revit Beginners: Head & Sill Height Behavior

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, September 12, 2006. Head & Sill Height Behavior. Did you model a rough opening height for your window that has say a sloping sill and now your head height is not accurate in your schedule?

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Saving our.

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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The Specialty Contractor's Guide to Job Cost Accounting

Supply chain challenges and rising material costs are forcing specialty contractors to pay more for what they need to complete each job. Following a simple set of principles, this easy-to-follow guide can help you manage job costs, ease the pains of accounting, and run a more profitable businesses. If you are a Specialty Contractor or Self-performing GC, you do not want to miss out on this essential guide!

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Some advertising and new family development

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Since at least one blogger recently mentioned that he stops in from time to time, I thought I would put up a few of the blogs I read on a regular basis as a thank you. Daniel recently gave me a shout out, so if you didn't get here from there, go visit him: Revit Job Captain David's Blog is great! I don't have to worry about coming up with cool little tips and tricks cause I always know I can stop by his site, or send a user there to learn something.

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First African Methodist Episcopal Church Selects Korte

The Korte Company

The Korte Company and JVC Architects have been selected as the Design-Build team for the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The single-story church is scheduled to begin construction in the spring of 2007. Currently, The Korte Company/JVC Architects are contracted to design and build the first of three phases of the project.