Category: Drawings

Currently my 5th most popula post on my blogsite is How to Set Up Room Data Sheets in Revit with (NOW FREE) WhiteFeet add-in . I’d loaded Whitefeet plugin and was playing with it. So I wasn’t actually using it in anger as such, on a real project, more as an exercise on what that

I was looking on Windows club site for software and there was one and it had all the usual suspects, most of which allow for a free version and limit its funtionality, fair enough, I use Bubbl.us and find it very useful. Mindmeister Lucidchart Bubbl.us Mindmup Draw.io Mindomo Coggle MindMapp Freemind Freeplane. All of the

I think I have an idea that may be worth selling. So I need to develop a course around it . I’ve decided to use Notion to write up the structure of the course and am considering looking to use Udemy to host the course. The course was submitted to Udemy for review & approval

Note- WordPress seems to be having issues (or maybe just me) with uploading some images. I’m not sure why as they are screenshots (and small) , but some images are missing in the article below. They are loaded into the WP Media library, but do not wish to be displayed. Apologies until I can rectify

I’ve been working on a project in BIM and I’ve got to the detailing part. Some of the cladding details are pretty standard and I have a lot of them in CAD format that I wanted to use using a link. The details needed some modification so I needed to use a cad program to

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 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 3D QR code attempt 2 I succeeded in getting a QR code into Revit and was able to scan it there & also export to 3D PDF to scan there too. Unfortunately the process that was used required using an Autodesk free trial (30 day) programme Formit for conversion from TinkerCad

I can get barcodes as part of a 3D text object in Revit. Unfortunately this is only a code. It doesn’t send you anywhere at all. I would like a 3d QR code floating in a room in revit, then this 3D object can be exported to 3D PDF. With a QR code, if you

Something I used in one of my earlier exercises was layers on maps,  on this post How to use Maps to find Data on Assets. It allows for using an online map such as Google Maps and putting information on that map with specific overlays. Follow the link for example (Note, if you click on