You, an iRevit contributor

Clearly, being an international Revit-man of mystery doesn't leave much time for providing you with Revit recipes for greatness or otherwise. It makes sense to this humble institution to search for additional blog contributors. If you are interested in contributing and helping other Reviteers with tips, tricks, fun facts, and the like, then contact me. Compensation is an astounding amount of personal growth and maybe even a sense of accomplishment,...

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ACADIA 09 and Grasshopper to Revit

Chicago, October 21st, 2009 The ACADIA conference begins tomorrow. The advanced digital design tool workshops preceding the conference end today. Several of the workshops were cancelled including the ones I had registered for but a colleague of mine participated in the Rhino Grasshopper workshop which I am now regretting not signing up for as the results were impressive. Rhino plays nice with Revit. Grasshopper is a plugin if you weren’t aware and...

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Hatching Revit Patterns for Filled Regions

Anxiously anticipating the opening of registration for Autodesk University fills the air with an excitement and flurry of optimism, wouldn’t you agree? In that spirit, here’s a helpful tip for all those who aren’t completely satisfied with the patterns available in Revit out of the box or often find yourselves looking for something particular in a pattern.  Above is a diagram of how to decode a pattern file (.pat) and even create your own...

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Stuff you’ve seen here

I am very excited to tell you that stuff you’ve seen here in this blog has been immortalized in the greatest known library in our universe, the Library of Congress in the USA. The book I refer to is Introducing Revit Architecture 2010: BIM for Beginners and although I did not write it, you’ll find one of my images on the cover! Written by Tatjana Dzambazova, Eddy Krygiel, and Greg Demchak, the book provides a thorough introduction to Revit and BIM...

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Revit 2010 Ribbon development

  There has been much discussion and blogging about the new ribbon interface in the latest edition of Autodesk’s Revit platform. To get a little back story, watch this video on it’s development and the thought behind it. Even after testing and bug-hunting RAC2010 for 4 months, I still have trouble finding some of the commands I want. Granted, I’ve been using Revit for a while now, I think since 2002 or 2003, and the “old” UI is second nature...

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Are you Laid-Off or a Displaced Worker?

An awesome coincidence happened to me on Thursday. I received an email from a friend I worked with a few years ago at another Architecture firm. He was out of work, laid off, a “displaced worker” as some would put it. He had gotten a small drafting job and and his email was a request. Not being tech savvy, his computer was about 7 years old, and had the hardware specs and software to match.  He needed me to convert an AutoCAD 2007 drawing to the older format of AutoCAD 2000 so he could work on it. “Not...

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Exercises in Erwin Hauer

A study of Hauer’s ‘Design 3’ at core.form-ula breaks down the panelization of the design into manageable pieces. It is worth a look if you are interested in the architecture. The images below are another rendition of the Hauer panels (Design 3) inspired by the information on core.form-ula. This exercise takes it a step further with more flexibility in parametric definition i.e. the panel mass and crest/trough depth is adjustable. These images are...

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Facets (cont’d)

Happy New Year folks! I thought I would add this other facet component for you… This one is far more flexible.  The real-deal of this family is far more complex but this one gets the idea across good enough. Take it for a spin: Download here An issue with working in a faceted facade is that it is necessary to re-align pretty much all of the curtain grids if you want the grids to remain perpendicular/horizontal. They have a tendency to...

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