In this Revit 2022 tutorial I show you how to create an invisible section cut to elevate a lift core wall. The section marker stays on the plan, but is not seen and does not print out. Hovering over the area of the section line allows you to click on it, then you can right click and 'go to view'. A good trick for structural drafting of wall … [Read more...] about Revit: Invisible Section Markers for Wall Elevations
Autodesk Certification: A New Way to Certify
If you love collecting certificates and quailifcations, this new offering may interest you from Autodesk. Whether you’re an emerging or seasoned professional, Autodesk's certification program gives you the tools and training to acquire new skills, accelerate your career, and prosper through disruption to achieve the new possible. Check it out at: … [Read more...] about Autodesk Certification: A New Way to Certify
Revit: Vote for Automatic Load Bearing Hatch Under
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 Revit: Vote for Automatic Load Bearing Hatch Under
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
ISO 3098B SHX Font for AutoCAD – Free Download
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 ISO 3098B SHX Font for AutoCAD – Free Download
Civil 3D: Insert COGO Points from a Surveyor’s CSV
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: Insert COGO Points from a Surveyor’s CSV