REVIT REBELS! up-vote our idea for the product. Help us poke Autodesk to fix one of the biggest missing items for Revit Structural Drafters. "Automatic load bearing hatch under in Revit for Structural Framing plans" Go to the link below and up vote this on the Autodesk Revit Ideas board: … [Read more...] about Help us poke Autodesk to fix one of the biggest missing items for Revit Structural Drafters
Life before the invention of AutoCAD, 1950-1980
Before the advent of AutoCAD and other CAD/BIM drafting software, engineering drawings were crafted on large sheets of paper. The specialized equipment used to create these drawings included; drawing boards, different grades of pens and pencils, erasers, T-squares, set squares, compasses and tracing paper to name but just a few. One major disadvantage of an only paper-based … [Read more...] about Life before the invention of AutoCAD, 1950-1980
ISO3098B.SHX Font for AutoCAD
ISO3098B font style - An Engineering Drafting Standard. About SHX and SHP files File extensions SHX and SHP are both shapefile formats. These can be used to define text fonts or symbol fonts in AutoCAD. An SHX file contains a shape or font compiled by Autodesk AutoCAD from an .SHP shape file or .PFB font file. It stores shape definitions, as well as font definitions for … [Read more...] about ISO3098B.SHX Font for AutoCAD
Civil 3D Tutorial – Insert COGO points from a surveyors CSV file
Setting the scene: The Land Surveyor has taken some spot levels, of work as executed, for a land development project. They have sent me those spot levels as a CSV file. This file is comma delimited. So how do I import this data as COGO points into Autodesk Civil 3D? In this video tutorial I show you how to do this in AutoCAD. https://youtu.be/KODdPE6CVEE … [Read more...] about Civil 3D Tutorial – Insert COGO points from a surveyors CSV file
Finally! Native PDF Export. New for Revit 2022
A new feature of Revit 2022 is the ability to export sheets to PDF files. And you can provide custom naming rules for batch exporting of PDF drawings. In this video I show you how this new feature works, where it could improve, and a third party plug-in which has similar functionality. https://youtu.be/zbeiiEvef8k … [Read more...] about Finally! Native PDF Export. New for Revit 2022
Revit Tutorial – How to show load-bearing shade hatch under for structural drafting of concrete slabs
What structurally supports a slab under is more important than what is over for structural drafting. For example; How can I tell from a plan view how far this slab is spanning? Are any columns or walls transferring load through slabs to the supports under? In this Revit how to video, I demonstrate two hacks for showing the load-bearing shade under for structural … [Read more...] about Revit Tutorial – How to show load-bearing shade hatch under for structural drafting of concrete slabs