New Autodesk Conceptual Design Technologies

Autodesk FormIt and Dynamo to be released at AIA 2013 in Denver, CO.

Read the article here.

SMART Board Revit & Navisworks plug-ins

ids Engineering, Advanced Solutions Inc. software engineering wing has developed SMART Board plug-ins for both Navisworks and Revit.

Revit SMART Board plug-in
http://youtu.be/Yo-DSYSxZl4

Navisworks SMART Board plug-in
http://youtu.be/hRft_mQRWv8

Revit 2014 Point Clouds

From Revit OpEd.
Revit 2014 Point Clouds

Revit > Archicad interoperability Add-ons

Interoperability add-ons between Archicad and Revit.

http://www.graphisoft.com/downloads/interoperability.html

Revit 2013 Update Release 3

Revit 2013 Update Release 3

General platform improvements for this build include:-

Improves stability when using Hardware Acceleration, Graphics Mode. 
Improves stability when opening projects which utilize Extensible Storage.
Improves visual fidelity between canvas and printed output. 
Improves visual fidelity of hidden lines, MEP pipe centerlines and haloed gaps when not using Hardware Acceleration, Graphics Mode. 
Improves Structural family data integrity during upgrade of project.
Improves data integrity when canceling Save As operation.
Improves interaction between Revit Server 2013 and Riverbed compression.
Enables users to browse Revit Server Networks when a bound workstation cannot contact the Domain Controller.

BIM 360 Glue

BIM Workflows connected with BIM 360 Glue

http://beyonddesign.typepad.com/posts/2013/05/bim-workflows-connected-with-glue.html

Laser Scanning webinar and newsletter

Here's some great content for those either getting into the industry, or just trying to keep pace with this fast moving tech.

Webinar entitled “21 time saving scanning and modeling tips for As-Built MEP Projects”

http://youtu.be/gsqbeKny-4c

Workflow 4.0 – Scanning industry newsletter for best practices, tips & tricks etc.

http://www.workflow4point0.com/

Upgrading Revit Families and Files to 2014...Efficiently!

Upgrade Revit Families and Files to 2014 Quick and Easy

Hopefully it's common knowledge that Revit is not backwards compatible. With The 2014 version now out and available people will want to upgrade any custom families they have to avoid the dreaded "This is a one time only upgrade process" dialog.Your friends at Autodesk have thought about you and hid a gem of a BAT file in the install folder to help you out. Look for the Utilities folder then open theContentBatchUtility folder. 

In there, you will find a readme with these instructions.

To Use the Content Batch Upgrade Utility:

1. Copy Upgrade_RFA.txt and Upgrade_RFA.bat into the root directory of the library that you want to upgrade.
2. Run the Upgrade_RFA.bat to create the file list to upgrade, famlist_rfa.txt.
3. To launch the utility, from the library directory, drag Upgrade_RFA.txt onto the Revit icon on your desktop.
4. After upgrading, delete all backup files from the library.

Notes:

Make sure all of your .rfa files are not read-only and delete all backup files from the library. 
If a particular family fails to upgrade properly, the utility will stop.
If this occurs, open famlist_rfa.txt in Microsoft Notepad, and remove all previously upgraded families and the failed family from the list. 
Save famlist_rfa.txt, and re-run the utility.

Once you drag Upgrade_RFA.txt onto your Revit 2014 icon, it goes into action meticulously opening, upgrading, and closing each file in the folder structure. Believe me, faster than a person can, and a lot more fun to watch than do.

Lets all thank Cad Shack!