Category: Drawings

I can’t actually recollect who had told me that you could go backwards in Revit versions by exporting to IFC and then opening a new project and bringing in the IFC into a previous version. I know Matt Cantwell was doing quite a lot of work with bringing information in from IFC’s but not the

A couple of interesting presentations I came across. Solar/Shadow studies by the Revit Kid: Revit Tutorial – True Solar/Shadow Studies A couple of interesting things he did in this video that I didn’t know about: 1/ Using Camera to make a plan orthogonal view (instead of perspective, thus being able to show windows full height

After trying out the Using Walk-Through-3D Free Revit Add-In by AMC Bridge I was interested in the Unity visualisation.  I thought, if its that easy why isn’t it being used all the time, after all, for small scale use Unity is free. So I did a bit of research on the topic.  The issue is

Walk-Through-3D . A nice add in I came across that seems to have developed a lot further than when I played with a similar package in 2015. This walkthrough has a nice appearance and has some extra features such as the map, this helps me navigate around the architecture more easily. From the description of

I don’t usually do ceramic tile finishes, but I’ve just had the opportunity of doing some on a recent project. There are floor tiles and wall tiles and feature tiles for an accessible toilet that I will use as an example. This is near the finished set-out for them, a few more dims and schedules

Capturing auditoria, theatres etc for AM/FM and for ongoing use of the model for seating planning can be useful. With numbered seating you can allocate different prices for different seating, you can also change pricing for different event configurations for multi-purpose arrangements.I have done seating on a number of buildings in Wellington when working for

I came across FormIt as a link in Revit 2019 when I started working with Shand Shelton Architects. I thought I’d give it a look. I am using the on-line free version to test out. Go here. It seems to be a SketchUp/ BricsCad Shape type product with Push Pull for Shape forms (so a

The new   photo sphere viewer by Jeremy Heleine allows you to put Markers on your Panorama . See demo here. I think that is pretty cool and I wondered if you could make them into Hyperlinks to link other panoramas to make a virtual tour. So I did some tests. My previous way to be

Please download and play with the data extraction process from 3D PDF’s to Excel. This is a  a reduced functionality demonstration version of the Excel Macro developed for extracting information from 3D PDF’s. The Macro only works on Room data from the 3D PDF’s. There are also samples of 3D PDF files with Data &

Most Asset Management Property Portfolios will consist of existing buildings. Generally new buildings coming into the portfolio will be a small percentage of the total. Information about existing buildings will most probably be scanned (Raster) plans and documents from the original As-Built construction drawing set, with some small updates in CAD (Computer Aided Drawing). This