Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.Upcoming classes include: 5.1.12::Revit 201: Impression in RevitEach 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 which best meets your schedule.Click here for class descriptions,...
Thursday, 26 April 2012
My favorite new feature in Revit 2013 is the ability to persistently control views through the use of View Templates. In earlier versions of Revit there was a “Default View Template” field which didn’t do a whole lot. Sure, you could grab a whole bunch of views through the Project Browser and manually force them to update per your View Template rules, but who has time to remember?Now in 2013 you can assign a View Template to a set of views and the...
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
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 weeks:4.30-5.2::SacramentoCivil 3D Fundamentals5.1-3::PortlandRevit MEP Electrical Fundamentals5.7-9::SacramentoRevit MEP Electrical Fundamentals5.7-9::San Francisco Revit Structure Fundamentals Know your software. Sign up n...
Autodesk Revit 2013 now provides the ability to add and modify the thermal properties of walls, floor, roofs, and windows in order to facilitate more integrated building performance analysis, heating and cooling load calculations and gbXML support. These improvements: Allow for a single customizable deployment and a single content library. Support and encourage multi-discipline workflows. Give the user the ability to assign thermal...
Monday, 23 April 2012
Autodesk Revit 2013 has some great enhancements; two of my preferred improvements are the workflow improvements and the Enhanced Building Analysis tools.Autodesk Revit allows you to customize discipline functionality based on your needs, another benefit is instead of having different content library for each Revit vertical, there will be one single content library to help organize your company library. With all the tools accessible within a...
Friday, 20 April 2012
This video made by Shruti Harve, Senior Application Specialist at Ideate, Inc. goes over enhancements made to reinforcement modeling in Autodesk Revit Structure 2013. These include:Fabric Reinforcement has been added to Autodesk Revit Structure 2013. You can now place evenly lap-spliced Fabric Sheets in floors, walls or foundation slabs.Area and Path Reinforcement can now host rebar. You can now display rebar elements in floors, walls or foundation...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.Upcoming classes include: 5.1.12::Revit 201: Impression in RevitEach 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 which best meets your schedule.Click here for class descriptions,...
AutoCAD MEP 2013 has some great Scheduling tag enhancements to increase control over how tags and tag attributes are rotated to align with objects. New schedule tag properties-including Reference Text Angle, Attribute Angle Method, and Maintain Attribute Angle – are available to support functions such as rotating the entire tag instead of individual attributes. The tag can update and attribute rotation angles to maintain Right Reading or Force Horizontal...
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Autodesk Revit MEP 2013 has some great enhancements, one of the best is the new Duct and Pipe Routing Preference dialog boxes.The new Pipe Segments are used in the new Routing Preference. The segments are assigned a material and schedule type, which in turn is used to automatically generate the pipe segment name. You no longer need to be concerned about the connection type as it has been removed.Duct fittings have been moved to the Routing Preferences...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
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 weeks:4.23-25::SeattleAutoCAD Fundamentals4.24-26::SeattleRevit Architecture Fundamentals4.30-5.2::SacramentoCivil 3D FundamentalsKnow your software. Sign up n...
AutoCAD MEP 2013 has some great enhancements to the Duct Routing Preferences which will help you to route and lay out duct systems per design specification. The Duct Routing Preferences may now be linked to Duct System Definitions. When the Duct System is changed on the Properties palette, the routing preference will change accordingly. You can apply the changes to all segments and fittings connected to the object, and it will continue until it comes...
Monday, 16 April 2012
(…or what you need to know about level hosted elements in Revit)How could these (fill-in-the-blank) just disappear from the project? They were there yesterday, and now they’re gone! We don’t see this happening too often, perhaps once per month, but when it does, it’s a disaster. The BIM Manager usually assumes that Revit has a serious defect and is responsible for trashing the project while our support staff is inclined to assume that some user,...
Revit MEP 2013 has some great enhancements; one of the most useful is the updated ASHRAE Duct Fitting Database. Revit now uses the latest 5.00.00 version of the ASHRAE duct fitting database. Many of the ASHRAE tables have been updated based on the latest standards. The new tables increase the coverage of pressure loss data for duct fittings.In addition, oval fittings, taps, and tees where all of the ports are the same size are now supported.With...
Friday, 13 April 2012
What’s New in AutoCAD for Mac 2013? Here’s a quick preview of the new Project Manager in AutoCAD for Mac from Ideate’s Derek Wielkopolski. Watch the video: AutoCAD for Mac 2013, Project Manager Script Don’t forget to look through other great features our Ideate Technical Team has found in the new 2013 releases for Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, Revit Structure, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Navisworks and more: ideateinc.com/2013Derek WielkopolskiTechnical...
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.Upcoming classes include: 4.18.12::Revit 201: Rapid Detailing5.1.12::Revit 201: Impression in RevitEach 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 which best meets your...
This feature presentation by Ideate’s Senior Application Specialist Teresa Martin, discusses the changes to the Clash Detective interface in Autodesk Navisworks 2013. Some of the topics covered are the new API, user interface enhancements, support for level and grid locations for clashes as well as additional selection options provided by the new interface.Watch the video: Autodesk Navsiworks 2013 Feature Focus - Clash Detective Don’t forget...
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
This short presentation by Ideate’s Senior Application Specialist Teresa Martin, discusses the new native support added to Autodesk Navisworks 2013 for Autodesk Revit RVT files. Autodesk Navisworks can now import RVT files directly into the interface without the need to export from Autodesk Revit as an NWC file. This will greatly enhance present workflows, especially for big room meetings and on-the-fly field coordination sessions.Watch the video:...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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 weeks:4.11-12::PortlandRevit Architecture Beyond the Basics4.23-25::San FranciscoRevit Architecture Fundamentals4.23-25::SeattleAutoCAD Fundamentals4.24-26::Seattle Revit Architecture Fundamentals Know your software. Sign up n...
In this video, we take a look at some of the new Rail design enhancements that are included in the 2013 release of AutoCAD Civil 3D. Among the enhancements are a new Rail Alignment type, a new Cant calculation tool, a Rail Standards Design Criteria file and Rail Parameters that are now accessible through the Alignment Properties dialog box. Watch the video: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Rail Enhancements Don’t forget to look through other great features...
Monday, 9 April 2012
This short presentation by Ideate’s Senior Application Specialist Teresa Martin, discusses the new support in Autodesk Navisworks 2013 for grid objects and level imported from Autodesk Revit. This new feature will improve workflow as users will no longer have to make their own 3D grids for use in Autodesk Navisworks 2013. Further, when creating clash reports, the clash object’s level and grid location is now included in the report for...
Friday, 6 April 2012
This video by Shruti Harve, Senior Application Specialist at Ideate, Inc. goes over the new feature added to File Link Manager in Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2013 that lets you directly import Autodesk Revit Architecture (.rvt) files. This eliminates the need to Export the Autodesk Revit Architecture file as a .fbx file to import into Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2013.Watch the video: Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2013: Directly Import Revit Architecture FilesDon’t...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.Upcoming classes include: 4.10.12::Revit 201: Making Title Blocks4.18.12::Revit 201: Rapid DetailingEach 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 which best meets...
AutoCAD MEP 2013 has some great new design benefits. One such addition is the New Universal Connector. The Universal Connector will improve collaboration between MEP, plant and civil design professionals. By using the ‘Universal Connector’ it will provide the much needed connectivity between piping systems created in AutoCAD® MEP, AutoCAD® Plant 3D and AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software.This new enhancement will allow:Improved collaboration between the...
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Autodesk Revit 2013 extends the capability to support construction modeling by allowing further customization with parts. Parts can now be merged, excluded and restored. Two or more parts can be merged into a single part. Exclusions will remove parts from the project similar to the way elements can be excluded from a group, and finally excluded parts can be restored at any time.Watch the video: Autodesk Revit Architecture 2013 – Construction ModelingDon’t...
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
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 weeks:4.10-12::SeattleRevit MEP Mechanical and Plumbing Fundamentals4.11-12::PortlandRevit Architecture Beyond the BasicsKnow your software. Sign up n...
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 has some great additions that save you time by making mundane tasks simpler and faster. Perhaps one of the most sought after features in AutoCAD Civil 3D has been pressure pipes. People had to jump hoops; make the best use of existing features of AutoCAD Civil 3D to create a water line. With AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 it is now very easy to create a pressure pipe network. This video will show you how to create a water line using...
Monday, 2 April 2012
In today’s blog post, Ideate’s Application Specialist Matt Miyamoto discusses the differences between a Point Cloud created with the POINTCLOUD command and an AutoCAD Civil 3D Point Cloud object.I recently had the opportunity to do a Lidar presentation at the Land Surveyor’s Association of Washington (LSAW) Conference at the Tulalip Resort a few weeks ago. During the presentation, the attendees and I had a great discussion on a few of the different...
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