Category: BIM, Revit

Generally with notes I like all the information to be on the drawing that you are reading, so keynotes should have legends associated with that sheet. You shouldn’t be scrabbling through a set of drawings to find the keynote legend. Drawings should be stand alone. Also, I like notes to explain 1/ What something is,

After looking at all the tutorial videos and doing the basic exploring features of setting up a Ribbon tab from tutorial code it is time to try and do something. I crashed and burned trying to adapt some code for selection and colouring and realised I was over reaching a bit. So I need to

I have a few RSS feeds that I follow, plus I go along to revit & BIM talks when they are in town. A couple of useful things have just come up that I want to tag as they are useful tools and I want to be able to refer back to them. Using Phase

After AutoCad, that had LISP, where you could write some simple code and get some useful tailored tools that helped your efficiency, I find Revit tailoring a lot more difficult. It is more sophisticated and so programatically there are more challenges, so the code needs to be a bit more complex, but some simple Keyboard

In the previous post I looked at using Unreal Engine to do some presentation information on a project from Revit 2015. I found it had a steep learning curve and from Export from Revit you had to go into an intermediate programme such as 3d Max or Blender before importing it onto Unreal Engine. Then

I read this AEC Magazine article Christmas comes early at Epic Games about free features for Unreal Engine (UE) and thought I’d give UE V4 a go. I’d previously played with Unity, and there is talk of a collaboration between Unity & AutoDesk for AEC industry, that means that the free Unity will suddenly need

I haven’t played much with C# and revit add-ins for a while and I thought it would be good to re-explore the process. The last time I was trying to do so was about 3 years ago so I thought I’d look on Mr YouTube to see what has appeared since my last effort. It

This is a cool video on methods of presentation using background images, pre-set view templates, text as objects, filters and layering views over views, some in realistic and some in simple to give a mixed media feel, as well as using finishes and transparency to create filters. Very good and quick. Different fonts as objects

In the previous post I was looking at Revit Presentations. The first video showed examples of using Text fonts as elements with some very nice text fonts, both in 2D & 3D. So I thought I’d have a little play, with variable success. Below are some additions I made to my Title block (the MDA

Presentation is a good way to tell a story. You need to add enough interest to draw people in to explore, so you need to make it attractive. Not necessarily tell all the story but accentuate the positive. Images to support narative. Old days lots of effort for presentation that was not used in main