Autodesk University Virtual – Shared Coordinates Class Handouts

If you’ve signed up for my virtual class and wondered where the handouts are, I’ve posted them today. I was holding off posting them so that I could rehearse (up to the last minute) and not discover some horrible mistake, at the last minute. Thanks for the patience, the files are available at the site now. There is one handout, one power... [Read more]

Autodesk University 2009 -Day 00

We chose to drive this year when Jim Balding suggested that we car pool this year and our Aussie friend Wesley Benn arrived in LA in time to make the ride more “international”. We spent the four hour drive shooting the breeze. I dozed off for a little while, a habit when I’m a passenger unfortunately. We arrived in Las Vegas on Sunday... [Read more]

Equipment Elevations

Revit MEP focus again – Trying to determine what the correct elevation for equipment can be awkward when each connector is at different elevations. Sometimes a VAV, (variable air volume) or AHU, (air handling unit)or RTU (roof top unit) has connectors at really convenient (meaning really inconvenient) elevations that don’t seem to relate... [Read more]

Off Topic – The Axis of Reflection

Whenever I read the Status Bar information for the Mirror Tool I think of a one album only rock band from the late 70’s called Axis.I like listening to music using Pandora and today I stumbled upon what they’ve got about Axis and their one and only album “It’s a Circus World”: Snip…Axis was a power trio made up... [Read more]

A Little Help on Thanksgiving

I received a message at AUGI last night from a member trying to find the help documentation for 2010 (in .chm format). I thought I’d post a more general response here too. When you install Revit the Help documentation is supposed to be installed in this location: C:\Program Files\Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010\ProgramC:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk... [Read more]

Shared Coordinate Features Disabled

A quick one before I head off to Autodesk University this weekend. The coordinate features I want to use seem to be disabled!?! Someone probably pinned the survey or project base point. From Revit help documentation: You cannot move a pinned project base point or survey point. Pinning the project base point disables the Relocate Project and the Rotate... [Read more]

Dept. of Subtle – Architectural Tools

When you get to use all three versions of Revit it is only natural to see differences. Here’s one example, how the floor, ceiling and roof tools are made available in each version. First up is the Revit Architecture ribbon Build panel. You can watch a short video if you prefer.Notice the nice ascending order? Floor, then ceiling and at the top... [Read more]

Rename Corresponding Level and Views? – Huh?

Have you or someone you know answered “yes” to that question? You can admit it, it’s okay, we’re among friends! Revit keeps a watchful parental eye on Levels and View names that match. It doesn’t let them get out of sight until there are no more matching names. When you are renaming views or levels just make sure you really... [Read more]

Air Terminal Doesn’t See the Grid

Revit MEP focus – There is at least one air terminal family that doesn’t play nice with ceiling grids. The family is called “Supply Diffuser – Square – Hosted.rfa”. The culprit is that four reference planes do not have the correct IsReference parameter value. I’ve posted a Video to walk through fixing this.... [Read more]

Sikorsky is the new Inventor 2011

The new version of Autodesk Inventor – Inventor 2011 – is codenamed “Sikorsky”. Beta testing of Inventor 2011 is now open at beta.autodesk.com. You can take part on this testing by registering at the beta site. Version 2011 can be expected as usually in March/April term in the year 2010. It will be interesting to see if and... [Read more]