Roadway Design: Delayed model regeneration for road design The Curve Properties Panel in profile view can be modified, and immediately reflected on the profile view from the Curve Properties panel. Improved spiral curve spiral support for InfraWorks to Civil 3D interoperability. The spiral type is now displayed in the Spiral …
What is AIA 2030 Design Data Exchange (DDx)?
Rabi Sidawi2030 Design Data Exchange (DDx) Measuring progress on carbon neutrality is a complex task that can take time away from firm capacity. The AIA helped develop the 2030 Design Data Exchange (DDx) to make it easier and faster to record data, get results and advance your firm’s performance with actionable …
3Ds Max 1-Minute Tutorials
Rabi SidawiMany of us think 3Ds Max is complicated or takes a long time to learn. Autodesk is trying to make this easier than ever by adding these 3Ds Max 1-minute Essentials Tutorials
Linking Revit with Robot Structural Analysis
Rabi SidawiIn order to address AEC industry challenges, Autodesk added Robot Structural Analysis software to the AEC Collection. Now you have a set of tools for design, analysis, and fabrication in one subscription.
What Is Forge and Why Is It Important for AEC?
Rabi SidawiAutodesk Forge is a relatively new platform, a set of web services API’s. An API is an application programming interface, a way to extract data. Think about it as a box of Legos or parts that make up a model assembly. Documents and Information resides in multiple file formats and …
Out with Old Revit, In with Revit 2019!
Rabi SidawiTop features that Autodesk pulled out from Revit 2019: Suites Workflows such as switch to 3Ds Max Collaboration for Revit (C4R) Communicator instant messaging Exporting to .adsk file format Publish to Buzzsaw
Autodesk® Revit® 2018.3 Update
Rabi SidawiThis update addresses issues and crashes reported directly to Autodesk and contains the fixes included in the Revit 2018.0.1, 2018.0.2, and 2018.1.1 Hot Fixes as well as the Revit 2018.1 and 2018.2 Updates. Consult the release notes for all areas improved by this update.
Geolocating Revit Models for Use in InfraWorks
Rabi SidawiCoordinate Geolocation and customize a 3D view in Revit for importing a model to InfraWorks. To import a Revit model to InfraWorks you need to ensure that the Revit model has the correct physical location data and that an appropriate 3D view is available. The topics in this section provide the steps you need to ensure that your model …
System Requirements for Revit 2019
Rabi SidawiOn April 17, 2018 Autodesk published a very useful article about the System Requirements for Revit 2019. What’s great about it, is that the main hardware configurations are workflow related. Below I have outlined a modified SUMMARY of my top recommendations: Minimum: Entry-Level Configuration Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit Enterprise, or Pro …
Explicit and Implicit Revit View Templates
Rabi SidawiThis Revit feature (view template control) remains under-utilized by some Revit users. When you assign a view template to a view, you can choose to apply it Implicitly or Explicitly.
What is the Building Material of the Future?
Rabi SidawiLast December Autodesk’s Matt Alderton published an article in the RedShift newsletter describing Carbon Fiber as the choice material of the future. Innovations in composite materials and robotic-fabrication techniques will no doubt change the way we construct building in the future. Building such as the Research-Pavilion at University-of-Stuttgart, and others enjoy …
12 Tips on Time Management: Take Control
Rabi SidawiOriginally published by Michael Clark, AIA; this Guide provides practical steps for Effective Time Management: Managing the Process: Many techniques or procedures that we have learned in other areas of our business life apply to the Working Drawing Process and are necessary to make the process successful Multi-tasking Control: Take …