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AutoCAD MEP: Eccentric Duct Transitions Posted: 7/26/2010
Learn how to create and modify eccentric duct transitions.
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Revit Platform: Documenting with the Sheet List Posted: 7/26/2010
Discover the new functionality of the sheet list schedule. Learn how to insert placeholder consultant sheets into your construction documents without creating extra sheet views, and then how to use those placeholders to standardize sheet creation for documentation.
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Revit Architecture: Controlling the Strength of Reference Planes Posted: 5/11/2010
Learn how to set an “Is Reference” parameter for reference planes, reference lines, model lines, and symbolic lines in a Revit family. Discover the differences between strong references, weak references, and “Not a Reference”.
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Revit Architecture: Two Ways to Wrap a Column Posted: 5/11/2010
Learn two of the most common ways to wrap a column in Revit Architecture: using an architectural column to wrap a structural column and sketching walls around the structural column.
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Revit Architecture: Modeling a Brick Ledge Posted: 2/10/2010
Learn a method that can be used to effectively model a brick ledge in Revit.
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Revit Architecture: “Revitizing” AutoCAD Details Posted: 11/16/2009
Learn how to transfer and translate information between AutoCAD and Revit Architecture.
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Revit: Exporting to Ecotect Analysis Posted: 9/28/2009
Learn the do’s and don’ts of exporting your Revit model to Ecotect Analysis.
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Ecotect Analysis: Testing Thermal, Sun Shade, and Acoustics Posted: 9/28/2009
Discover three basic analysis tests in Ecotect Analysis.
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Ecotect Analysis: Importing Your Revit Model Posted: 9/28/2009
Learn how to get your BIM model into Ecotect Analysis using .dxf and gbxml file formats.
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Revit Structure: An Introduction Posted: 6/9/2009
See how to start a project and the best way to use tools such as templates, menu bars, walls, levels, design bar, shortcut keys, and the project browser.
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AutoCAD Architecture: Bound Spaces Posted: 6/9/2009
Learn how to use lines to create bound spaces quickly and easily.
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Revit Architecture: Editing Masking Regions Posted: 5/14/2009
Learn how to apply masking regions to dimensions. You’ll also see how to edit families to get masking regions to appear in door tags and section bubbles.
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Revit Architecture: View Range Posted: 5/14/2009
Learn how to control the view range inside of views in this tech tip. See how to edit line styles and create plan regions.
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AutoCAD Architecture: Customizing the 2009 Interface Posted: 2/5/2009
A few simple tips on customizing your interface. See how to dock and hide tool palettes as icons. Learn about the new “Menu Browser” and how to save screen space by using it. We will also take a look at the “Quick Access Toolbar” and what it’s used for. See the “Ribbon” and what its uses are and how it works, and how to change the icons on our application status bar back to text. We will also look at some new icons/tools that have been added to the application status bar.
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Revit Architecture: Schedule Keys Posted: 2/5/2009
Learn how schedule keys can help you work smarter and faster by allowing you to place preset information based on a key, automatically within a large number of fields on a schedule.
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Revit Structure: Structural Column Tags Posted: 2/5/2009
This tech tip shows the steps on how to create a 45 degree structural column tag and bring it into your Revit file.
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Revit: Uncommon Features Posted: 6/17/2008
This tech tip takes a look into some of the features of Revit MEP, Architecture, and Structure that are not common to each other - and how we can sometimes make them work together anyway.
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Revit: Blended Sweeps Posted: 6/17/2008
Revit Architecture, MEP, and Structure 2009 added in a new feature called Blended Sweeps. This tech tip will show you how this new feature works.
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AutoCAD Architecture 2009: Interface Customized Posted: 5/6/2008
Tom shows you how to change the AutoCAD CAD Architecture 2009 User Interface, including how to get more screen "real estate", the new Menu Browser, the Quick Access Toolbar, and the Ribbon.
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Revit: View templates Posted: 5/6/2008
Usable in Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, and Revit Structure, Joe takes you through an introduction to View Templates and how they can be used to manage and standardize View Properties in Revit.
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Revit Structure 2008: Splitting Beams Posted: 3/28/2008
See how to split a beam and attach a column to the underside of the beam.
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Revit Architecture 2008: Wall Sweeps Posted: 3/28/2008
This technical tip will compare and contrast wall sweeps defined as part of a wall family and a hosted wall sweep. Hosted wall sweeps provide additional functionality that are not available with wall family sweep elements.
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AutoCAD MEP: Pipe Size Display Settings Posted: 3/28/2008
This technical tip will illustrate the impact of Pipe Size Display Settings in a Pipe System Definition on the Rise/Drop symbols used in the piping layouts
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AutoCAD Architecture 2008: Control-R Shortcut Posted: 2/8/2008
See the process to add the CTRL+R keyboard shortcut to the ADT.CUI file so that you can switch between layout viewports with the shortcut within AutoCAD Architecture 2008.
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Revit MEP 2008: Duct Routing Posted: 2/8/2008
Work with duct routing option and how you can manually modify these options to better fit your environment.
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Revit Structure: Warped Slabs Posted: 10/24/2007
See how to create warped roofs and slabs.
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AutoCAD MEP: Pre-configured Mechanical Equipment Posted: 10/24/2007
Learn about insertion processes and options for preconfigured MEP content in AutoCAD MEP.
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VIZ 2008: Using Mental Ray Posted: 10/24/2007
See how to set up a scene to use the Mental Ray engine.
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AutoCAD Architecture: Custom Tool Palette and Custom Tools Posted: 9/27/2007
Take a look at the processes for creating Custom Tool Palettes and placing Custom Commands on these palettes.
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Revit Architecture: Visibility Parameters Posted: 9/27/2007
See how to add a visibility parameter to an image in Revit.
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Revit Architecture: AutoCAD to Revit Details Posted: 9/27/2007
Migrate your AutoCAD details into Revit Details to make them easier to modify in the future. You will see how to link in an AutoCAD detail, convert it to Revit linework, and then save the new information out as a Revit detail that can be easily reused in other Revit projects.
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Revit Structure: Curved Beams Posted: 9/27/2007
Explore the new curved beam feature in Revit Structure 2008. You will see examples of creating not only horizontal curved beams, but vertical curved beams as well. The creation of beam systems within the curved beam areas is also shown.
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AutoCAD Architecture: AutoCAD Display Configuration Posted: 8/17/2007
Go through a step my step process to create a display configuration to display only AutoCAD objects and line work.
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AutoCAD MEP: Vertical Ductwork Posted: 8/17/2007
Learn how to draw vertical duct between floors in AutoCAD MEP. You'll also see the processes used for connecting to that duct on each floor.
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Revit MEP: Wire Tick Marks Posted: 8/17/2007
Review the graphical configurations for wire tick marks in Revit MEP 2008, including styles, families, and the visibility parameters of wiring systems and elements.
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AutoCAD Architecture: Using the DWF Underlay Posted: 7/24/2007
Get a first-hand look at the DWF Underlay and see how to manipulate the way it is displayed.
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AutoCAD MEP: The Clash Report Tool Posted: 7/24/2007
Explore a new tool from the global metric content package -- the clash report tool will provide a scheduled accounting of collisions between MEP systems and AEC (AutoCAD Architecture) objects including walls. Also covered in the video is the process for adding the to your US Imperial tool palettes
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VIZ 2008: The Mental Ray Haze Effect Posted: 7/24/2007
Explore the haze option in the new Mental Ray Sun and Sky. It is a simple parameter called haze that will greatly improve your exterior renderings.
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AutoCAD Architecture: Editing the Display of Objects Posted: 5/24/2007
In this tech tip, see how to directly make changes to the display of architectural objects. In addition so showing how this new feature works, you will see how this function can be turned off and on, providing needed standardization and CAD management support in design firms.
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Revit Systems: The 0,0 Coordinate Posted: 3/22/2007
A common misconception is that Revit does not use a coordinate system and the overall screen center to center is its only binding location. The coordinate system in Revit products are hidden in the background -- in this tip, track down the elusive 0,0 Cartesian point inside of Revit Systems.
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Autodesk Architecture (Architectural Desktop): Create and Modify Multiple Component Slabs Posted: 2/23/2007
This tech tip will be creating and modifying multiple component slabs within ADT 2007 and higher. In this example we will be building a stage complete with mutliple layers, the way it would be constructed and include materials to complete this design. From Edge slab styles to components and materials this tech tip is packed with information to get you started.
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Autodesk Revit Systems: Moving Objects Across Worksets Posted: 12/14/2006
Send objects on their pilgrimage to new worksets inside of Revit Systems, fast and efficiently with this tip.
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Autodesk Revit Building: Expanding your Rendering Posted: 10/31/2006
Utilize features to maximize your rendering's visual punch, with components and decals.
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Autodesk Revit Structure: Mitered Steel Corners Posted: 9/19/2006
See how to create mitered steel corners utilizing the Reference Plane tool in Revit Structure 3.
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Revit Structure: Beam Systems Posted: 8/17/2006
Take an introductory look into creating beam systems within Revit Structure 3. We will walk through the creation process, how to edit existing beam systems, and how these can be sloped including both the physical and analytical models.
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Autodesk Revit Building: Adding Details to your Families Posted: 7/18/2006
An introductory look at how we can control the level of detail that is being viewed inside our families through visibility settings.
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Autodesk Building Systems: Catalogs and the Catalog Editor Posted: 3/23/2006
Add a new duct size for use with Autodesk Building Systems by utilizing the Catalogs and Catalog Editor. This same methodology can be used to create and edit other content within ABS.
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Revit Building : Schedule Keys 101 Posted: 1/18/2006
An introduction to creating and using a schedule key “style” within Revit Building to help automatically populate fields in your schedule, rather than manually entering these values line by line.
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Building Systems: Make a Block-Based Mypart, Part 3 Posted: 9/28/2005
How to make a block based Mvpart for ABS. Part 3 shows how to add connection points and place in a drawing.
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Architectural Desktop: Using AEC Modify Tools Posted: 8/17/2005
Learn how to use two of the AEC Modify Tools to Center objects and Space Objects evenly after they have been added to the drawing model.
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Building Systems: Make a Block-Based Mypart, Part 2 Posted: 8/17/2005
How to make a block based Mvpart for ABS. In the second of this three-part tip, learn how to add that block to your catalog and create views.
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Building Systems: Make a Block-Sized Mvpart, Part 1 Posted: 7/18/2005
Mvparts let you create custom equipment catalogs and personalize your design using the equipment you want. In the first of this three-part tip, learn how to create the block using 3D solids.
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VIZ: Adding Sound to your Animations Posted: 6/16/2005
Impress your clients with an animation file containing music or voice narration. This tip shows you how to add sound files to your animations using the Track View Dope Sheet.
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ADT Viz Render: Rendering Animations with RAM Player Posted: 5/17/2005
Render animations utilizing the RAM Player in ADT Viz Render. This method allows you to quickly and easily export animation files in various formats and using different video codecs.
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Architectural Desktop: Re-Positioning Doors and Windows Posted: 4/21/2005
Easily re-position existing doors and windows along a wall or within a wall.
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Building Systems: Installing the Marinsoft Partsdrop Plugin Posted: 1/13/2005
This plugin gives you access to online content from Carrier, Kohler, and Marvin Windows and Doors. Using Autodesk i-drop technology, simply click and drag MvParts into ABS and download equipment specifications and information.
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Revit: Adding Shadows with the new Advanced Modeling Graphics Feature Posted: 1/13/2005
Use the new Advanced Modeling Graphics feature in Revit to cast shadows and add a sense of texture to your building information model. Create presentation views by changing the location, angle and intensity of the Sun.
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