Revit rendering vs. Autodesk cloud rendering - Fight!

Recently I had the pleasure of designing a few options for a potential remodel of our lobby here at HQ. During this time I also trialed Autodesk 360's rendering service and I must say, I am impressed. What I liked most about it was the speed with which it rendered. The quality of the images was fair/good and the way it handled material textures was good, in fact in some cases better than Revit. But then the cloud handled some things a little oddly.Looming...

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Classical Architecture with Revit

Checkout this post and book on classical architecture... Great stuff and some super tips for aspiring Revit Masters.http://revitswat.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/renaissance-revit-by-paul-aubin/...

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What to Expect When Your Client Is Expecting BIM - Five BIM Trends You Need to Know

This is a cross-post with Digital-Tutors. To view the post on their blog, visit DT Labs.In a recent interview with Digital-Tutors I was asked what market and software trends I saw involving BIM and Revit. They were only able to include one trend in the release but what follows are my insights in full.Clients Want RevitWhat we see at our firm, and what I know others are seeing as well, is that savvy clients are saying their project is a BIM project...

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Announcing new Revit training category at Digital-Tutors

This past summer I was honored to be invited to be a Guest Tutor at Digital-Tutors. Digital-tutors has a wide variety of professionally crafted tutorials on topics like modeling, lighting, texturing, dynamics and more with tools like 3DMax, Maya, Inventor, Sketchbook Pro,  Mudbox, Photoshop, Rhino and most recently, Revit!Digital-tutors is a seasoned provider of eLearning targeted towards Professional CG, VFX & Digital Arts for the Movie...

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Finally - A tablet large enough to mark-up drawings in a somewhat practical manner

Reposted from http://technology4architects.blogspot.com/Recently Dell introduced the largest tablet available to the consumer market, the XPS18. This tablet has a screen size of about 1'-6" diagonally [note that the iPad is a mere 9.7"]It makes for a great markup tablet because it runs full-blown windows, which means you can install Bluebeam, or Design Review or any other Windows-based software for that matter. It's a "capacitive touch"...

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Tell them what you think

Craig Barbieri here with another opportunity for you to win cold hard cash by being opinionated. Autodesk wants to know what you think of the energy analysis output from Revit. Does it give you valuable information you can use to make early design decisions? Click here:http://autodesk.typepad.com/bpa/2013/08/tell-us-what-you-think-and-enter-to-win-a-100-amazon-gift-card.html?utm_campaign=PESQ3Survey&utm_source=ADSK%20Social%20Media&utm_medium=all...

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BIM contracts updated by AIA

Lots of good info here on Level of Development Specification for BIM Processeshttp://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2013/issue_68.html ...

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CASE Interoperability: Structural Framing

The guys over at Case have not ceased to amaze me yet. Watch this...http://youtu.be/mssTdaQcXM8Nathan, from CASE is taking his Rhino/grasshopper formulaic/programmable structure and porting it to Revit using their plugin, that then builds the structure using Revit Structural components, including the Revit structural model....

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A work-around: Revit Renders smooth curves with facets, and other revelations.

I've been consulting recently and in doing so I came across two things that I find bothersome with Revit, one which I have a work-around for and the other just sucks.First let's talk about the one I have a work-around for, and that is the lack of smoothing of curves in renderings. Here is my example:In the render, you can clearly see that what should be a smooth circle, is rendered as faceted.  Here you can see it in Realistic view...

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Product Design Suite Test Drive -- Revit - Inventor BIM Exchange

This is a short demonstration from Autodesk of the BIM exchange from Inventor to native Revit family file. Manufacturers take note! Architects and Engineers don't need intricately detailed virtual products as Revit families. We need simplified generalizations of the products extents and clearances. The Inventor BIM exchange looks like it's made your work much simpler.Cheers,Craig Barbi...

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BIM infographic

I came across this infographic the other day on the Line/Shape/Space blog. I always find new metrics/statistics on BIM interesting and you may find this interesting too.Enjoy!Click for Full Size im...

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IDEA studio

There's a great opportunity here if you are a student. IDEA Studio is calling for proposals for Student in residence at Autodesk. Act fast ....you only have until the 15th to get it in.http://labs.blogs.com/its_alive_in_the_lab/2013/02/call-for-proposals-for-the-idea-studio-by-february-15.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter ...

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Revit Hatch patterns revisited

A long time ago I talked about the in's and out's of hatch patterns in Revit and how they are made from scratch. I'm not sure why the universally used functionality hasn't been addressed in any shape or form by the Factory but thanks to some talent out there in the world, there are easier ways to address patterns. I recently came across Hatch22, a fairly easy-to-use Revit Add-in that addresses the missing functionality. It's Pay as you Please and...

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