Rogue Levels in Revit?

Do you have “Rogue” Levels in Revit? You may have rogue levels in the project that are not active views, but show up as elevation options when creating elements such as Walls, Columns, or Floor. Additionally if creating a new floor plan these rogue levels may show up.You may have tried to find them by creating new elevations or sections and turning off the cropping of the view, but still cannot find them. What do you do??Use Ideate Explorer for Revit...

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Classroom Training - Open Classes

Know It. Ideate Training.Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming days:9.19-21::SacramentoRevit Architecture Fundamentals9.26-28::San JoseAutoCAD Fundamentals9.27-29::SeattleRevit Architecture Fundamentals9.28-30::PortlandRevit Structure FundamentalsKnow your software. Sign up n...

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Setting Up Network Licensing with AutoCAD for Mac 2012

Did you catch Autodesk’s Design 8.16 event? Autodesk released AutoCAD for Mac 2012, AutoCAD LT for Mac 2012, and a separate AutoCAD WS app for Mac OS X.Whether you thought it was a worthy enough “big” announcement or not doesn’t matter - what you thought they would announce Revit for Mac from the AutoCAD team? There are a lot of AutoCAD users out there, and a lot of them are moving to the Mac platform. And to be honest I like seeing how they’re...

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Canada Partner BusCom Shares New Ideate BIMLink Video

Ideate BIMLink – en Francais!Nous sommes fier de vous présenter notre premier video Ideate BIMLink en français; merci beaucoup à notre partner Le Groupe Buscom pour la traduction. Pour les clients francophones, veuillez vous reférer au Groupe BusCom en visitant le www.buscom.ca. Le Groupe BusCom possède plus de 27 ans d'expérience en conception et en fabrication assistée par ordinateur et peut répondre à vos besoins, en français.Le Group BusCominfo@buscom.cap: 866.761.1911Canada: Montréal, QC; Sherbrooke, QCNon-YouTube users check out this screencast....

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eLearning – Upcoming Classes

Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning - live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.Upcoming classes include: 8.30.11::Ideate 101: Getting Started with Vasari9.6.11::Revit 201: Worksharing Best PracticesEach class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day...

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It Once Was Lost But Now It’s Found

Imagine this, a Revit file comes from a project member. You open your project and it loads as it always has. You leave your starting view to a floor plan only to have your heart sink. Where is the link? It was there yesterday. Your anger and anxiety level is now setting your blood pressure to dangerous levels. Take a deep breath, it’s ok, we’ll help you find that lost link.I have two options below for you. The more complex is the first option. The...

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Classroom Training - Open Classes

Know It. Ideate Training.Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming days:8.26::San FranciscoAutoCAD Update8.30-9.1::San JoseRevit MEP Electrical Fundamentals9.7-9::PortlandRevit Architecture FundamentalsKnow your software. Sign up n...

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DWF for Mac

I hope everyone was able to catch Ron Palma’s post on DWFs and how versatile they are when exchanging design and documentation data. If you didn’t check it out here.As the AutoCAD for Mac guy here at Ideate, I often get questions about using DWFs on the Mac platform. Windows uses Design Review, a free program from Autodesk that allows you to open and view DWF files. But with AutoCAD for Mac 2011, released last fall Design Review is currently not...

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eLearning – Upcoming Classes

Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning - live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.Upcoming classes include: 8.23.11::Revit 201: Revit for Interior Designers8.30.11::Ideate 101: Getting Started with Vasari9.6.11::Revit 201: Worksharing Best PracticesEach class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily...

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Auto Regen

I was editing an old AutoCAD drawing today to use as a training example. As I used the View Cube in AutoCAD 2012 to orient to a different viewing direction I kept getting an AutoCAD Alert dialog box with a note that said About to regen - - proceed? pressing the [Enter] key causes the dialog to go away and the view to re-orient itself.What did AutoCAD do this? Back in the day (and for some of you perhaps even before you were born...), changing the...

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Classroom Training - Open Classes

Know It. Ideate Training.Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming days:8.18-19::PortlandRevit Architecture Beyond the Basics8.22-24::San FranciscoRevit Architecture Fundamentals8.23-24::SeattleRevit Architecture Beyond the Basics8.26::San FranciscoAutoCAD Update Know your software. Sign up n...

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Do You Use DWF?

Design Web Format (DWF) is a secure file format for the distribution and communication of design data to anyone needing to view, review, or print design files. The DWF format was first established in 1995 as a means of publishing AutoCAD Drawing Files (DWG) for use on the internet and was then known as the Drawing Web Format (DWF). As the format grew in usage beyond AutoCAD, DWF was renamed to what we now know as the Design Web Format.Today DWF...

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eLearning – Upcoming Classes

Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning - live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.Upcoming classes include: 8.23.11::Revit 201: Revit for Interior Designers8.30.11::Ideate 101: Getting Started with Vasari9.6.11::Revit 201: Worksharing Best PracticesEach class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily...

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Publishing Single-Sheet PDF Files

During my latest round of Technical Support for Ideate, Inc. we saw a bunch of PDF Publishing cases. In one case in particular, a customer reported an issue when trying to produce Single-Sheet PDF files using the Publish Dialog Box.An issue occurs within the Publish command when a certain combination of options is selected for the Page Setup and Publish To items. In all cases, the Single-Sheet option was selected for the output type in the Sheet...

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Classroom Training - Open Classes

Know It. Ideate Training.Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming days:8.10-12::PortlandRevit Architecture Fundamentals8.15-16::PortlandNavisworks Fundamentals8.15-17::San Francisco3ds Max Design Fundamentals8.15-17::SacramentoRevit Architecture Fundamentals8.18-19::PortlandRevit Architecture Beyond the BasicsKnow...

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Revit - To Purge or Not to Purge?

Purging is a question we get at Ideate all the time.Who’s afraid of the big bad purge button?I was! When I started my first Revit MEP project, I was still waiting to get trained formally and I thought “How different can it be from AutoCAD MEP?” Not realizing that the files in Revit are going to be larger than my AutoCAD files, I wanted to get the file size down. What do we do in AutoCAD? Purge. So, I did, much to my dismay. This event so traumatized...

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What's New in Ideate Explorer for Revit 2012

Large projects can be difficult to navigate - but not with Ideate Explorer! We’ve added two significant improvements to Ideate Explorer 2012: Speed and Access to Worksharing information. We’ve re-engineered our search engine to make Ideate Explorer 2012 at least two times faster than the previous version. A 280 MB file now takes around one minute to index all objects. Finding the objects you need has never been easier. Now, in version 2012, Ideate...

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Existing Ceiling Grids in Revit

In the last Revit Architecture class that I instructed at Ideate, Inc., a student had a great question that I thought I would share here.We were discussing the topic of ‘Phasing’ in Revit, and the student was trying to figure out how to show the ceiling grid in the existing ACT ceiling ‘grayed out.’ Changing the Existing Phase Graphic Override to a gray color would only change the outline of the ceiling to gray, but what about the 2x4 ceiling tile...

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Classroom Training - Open Classes

Know It. Ideate Training.Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming days:8.9-11::San JoseRevit MEP Mechanical and Plumbing Fundamentals8.10-12::PortlandRevit Architecture Fundamentals8.15-16::PortlandNavisworks Fundamentals8.15-17::San Francisco3ds Max Design FundamentalsKnow your software. Sign up n...

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