NEWS, INSIGHTS AND HAPPENINGS IN AEC TECHNOLOGY

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What is the difference between AutoCAD and Autodesk?

Autodesk, the company powering construction, manufacturing, engineering, architecture, and entertainment industries, is a multinational software company founded by John Walker in 1982. It's not just a company, but a powerhouse of software used in numerous fields. AutoCAD is one of...

Creating Better Shaded Views from Revit, Part Deux

In this Click Saver I want to finish the "Creating Better Shaded Views from Revit" that I started last month. The last trick that I wanted to show was how I got a top down view showing the visual style...

New Research by McGraw-Hill Construction Shows Dramatic Increase in Use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in North America

McGraw-Hill Construction presented highlights of its new research showing the rapid advance of Building Information Modeling (BIM) usage by architects, engineers, contractors and owners in North America. Comparing results from its similar research in 2007 and 2009, McGraw-Hill Construction finds:...

New Revit for Project Managers!

Revit for Project Managers – 1 Day - $395 AIA/CES Learning Units/Hours: 1 Unit This course is designed to give you an overview of the Autodesk Revit (Architecture, Structure, and MEP) functionality especially as it pertains to Project Managers. You begin...

Creating Better Shaded Views from Revit

In this Click Saver I want to talk about how to get better images from Revit for marketing or proposals. Sometimes old habits are hard to kill because everyone thinks that you have to immediately go to a photo editing...

How Custom Tool Button Images are Created for Tool Palettes

In this Click Saver I want to talk about Tool Palettes in AutoCAD. For a lot of us Tool Palettes can be a great tool to enhance our productivity during the day. When you drag and drop your blocks onto...

Section Boxes in Orthographic/Perspective Views

In this click Savers I want to talk about enhancing your documentation with 3D section for orthographic and perspective views. Recently I started getting questions about how best setup these up and how work with Section Boxes in perspective views....

Demolish Parts of a Curtain Wall

In this Click Saver, I want to talk about how to demolish parts of a curtain wall. If you have not tried this before the problem in Revit is that you can only demolish the entire wall, not just a...

Project Browser – Custom Category Structure

In this Click Saver, I want to talk about how to arrange the Project Browser to your liking compared to the out-of-the-box template. Out of the box, the Project Browser is setup to do alphabetic order and then break-down the...

AutoCAD Platform: Migrating Workspaces and Profiles

In this Click Saver, I want to discuss how to transfer your settings and custom interface from one computer to the next or maybe from one version of AutoCAD to a new version. This has always been one of the...
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