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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