NEWS, INSIGHTS AND HAPPENINGS IN AEC TECHNOLOGY

Read about our learnings from clients and developments in products and software on our blog.

How to get a BIM Manager Without Hiring One

“The on-site and on-demand BIM support services initial.aec provides RNL allows our design teams to get past the inevitable technical obstacles in order to focus on  the design task at hand.” Carl Hole, AIA Principal | RNL Design In the...

D3 Technologies and initial.aec Expand Partnership

D3 Technologies and initial.aec Expand Partnership to the Pacific Northwest & Rocky Mountain Regions April 5, 2017 Building on a nearly decade-long partnership, D3 Technologies and initial.aec announce their continued expansion with co-locations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Missouri. Both...

Shawn Cox Joins initial.aec

Civil & Infrastructure Design Technology Specialist Shawn Cox will be working out of the Spokane, Washington office for initial.aec. He has been an Autodesk technical software specialist for more than ten years, working both as a technical consultant and classroom...

Stan Hennigh Joins initial.aec

Stan Hennigh joins initial.aec as the Director of Innovation, leading the Design Technology Services specialized for Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) firms. Mr. Hennigh’s career includes hands-on design development experience in architecture, civil and geospatial engineering, and consumer product development and manufacturing. ...

Stop the “Throw Away Model” & Start with BIM

Schematic Design Process Designing with FormIt will eliminate the “throw away design model” mentality at your firm. Watch this latest webcast from Jarod that highlights the value of starting in FormIt rather than other schematic design software plugins. Key Learning...

Dynamo – Beginner’s Guide

Learn how to get started navigating the user interface, basic table setups and the concept of coding with nodes. Watch as Justin walks through how you can begin to incorporate automation and scripting for routine design processes. Contact us if...

Updating Revit 2016 Shortcuts in Revit 2017 | Crash!

So I ran into a weird bug within Revit 2017. Many clients are changing their shortcuts in Revit 2017 to commands they are familiar with. I had one client import their shortcuts from Revit 2016 and wanted to modify the...

AutoCAD 2017 Fails to Launch After Install

Current Issue*: When attempting to launch AutoCAD 2017 for the first time the application opens to the drawing editor and displays a “License Error” message, “The License manager is not functioning or is improperly installed. AutoCAD will shut down now.”...

FormIt 360 – Layers, Scenes and Materials

Layers to Control Visibility Select lines, objects, groups, or images – assign them to a layer… then turn that layer on or off! Simple. Powerful. Necessary. Obviously, this is handy when you want to create a more complicated model, or...

Copy Elements from a Linked File

In this click saver I want to talk about something that a client recently brought up about working with linked Revit models. I work with quite a lot of multi- discipline firms these days so internally they will be sharing...
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