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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