A Beginner Revit Blog

Revit Clinic Post - 3 Levels of Masking

2010-12-15T17:41:00.000-08:00

Great post I have to share, this is especially helpful to me right now, understanding how masking works. Level 2 caught my attention: Level 2 – View, Model & Annotation Elements If you would like to mask model and annotation elements in the view, instead create a new generic annotation family. Add a masking region inside the family. Add any desired dimensional instance parameters [such

AU - 2010 - Day One

2010-11-29T22:31:00.000-08:00

Today I attended two sessions, the last one I was kind of lost because I really should have been a part of the whole day but it was informative anyway. I then attended the Media and Blogger Social and the AEC Mixer (originally the Revit Mixer) they were both great! I talked with Steve Bennet from 2D or not to 2D (check out his blog, for more up to date info) and Greg Arkin from Revit 3D, he's

AU2010 - Design Technology Managment

2010-11-29T22:17:00.000-08:00

Today was my first day at AU (Autodesk University) I'm disappointed I wasn't able to participate more in the sessions offered today, Digital Technology Conference... Sessions were full, but the one session I attended was great. Had me thinking out of the box, and got my mind working with new ideas, well new to me and our office. You should sign up at Autodesk University website to see

View Templates Dialog

2010-10-01T09:53:00.000-07:00

Something simple I found today. I have to share because I think it's very cool and useful, I have no idea how I didn't notice this before! When applying a view template, I can chose a view, instead of a template, or creating a new one. I feel silly pointing it out, but I just noticed it now and I know I will be using this often!

Blogger Day at Autodesk

2010-09-27T11:09:00.000-07:00

If you don’t already know today is Blogger Day at Autodesk AEC Headquarters, and the tweets have been many and very exicitng.I’m looking forward to reading about it from the bloggers that I follow that are there now. I wanted to share with everyone who I’ll be reading updates from and hopefully you can too. Steve at Revit OpEdDavid at RevitDavid at Do U Revit?Gregory Arkin at Revit 3DRichard at

Standards

2010-08-30T11:25:00.001-07:00

Lately, more clients are seeing the benefits of BIM. So I get to ramp up our standards for 2011. Meaning I want to change a few things to use the 2011 new features.I finished our template a couple of weeks ago. The few things I added/changed:Sheet Index – With our typical sheets to choose from when creating a new sheet, this helps with our standards, I can keep people to follow our naming

In-House Training - Revit Review

2010-04-15T17:05:00.001-07:00

I started 2010, (the year not the Revit version) with changing what I call my Revit Review's. A weekly Tips & Tricks session I do for in-house staff. I was hoping to blog about it often but I obviously didn't. Now I'd like to catch you up. This is the format. Once a week for 30 minutes, I show how to use one tool, in about 15 minutes, and questions and closing comments the last 15

Revit 2011 is here

2010-04-15T09:44:00.000-07:00

We're four months into the year, I can't believe it! This year is going by fast. Revit 2011 is already out (for subscription customers) very exciting, I hope you've been reading like I have all the different blogs out there talking about it. David Light has some a great overview. I hope everyone is as excited as I am about getting started with 2011, let the fun begin!

Fin de Año / End of the Year

2009-12-29T16:18:00.001-08:00

As 2009 ends, I realize it's been a difficult year; my duties have changed as CAD Manager, I was nervous to take on a few things, but luckily I was able to handle things successfully. Beginning in 2010, I will be doing basic Revit lessons for staff that are not currently using the program but need to keep up to date. I will be sharing in posts what I show and discussing lessons I learn as I go

Blog de Revit en Espanol

2009-12-22T16:26:00.001-08:00

Ahora encontre un blog interesante con mucha informacion, tiene 3 blogs! Es del autor Luciano Gorosito de Argentina.VenadoRevit es el blog que encontre, pero al navegar veo Clases de Revit, y Familias de Revit.Espero los guste y ayude, a mi me gusto, y espero poder leer mas y aprender algo nuevo!Y muchas gracias a Luciano por tanta informacion.Ciao!

New Web Communities

2009-10-30T13:29:00.000-07:00

I've found a couple of web communities that have been growing fast and have been a good source for interaction and learning. Revit Society was started by Daniel P, to focus on Revit and learn from others. Daniel being in the structural world, there may be less people to tap into than there are in the architectural world. The website has grown and has many many members. What I've liked is the

AUGI - Career Center

2009-08-28T12:11:00.001-07:00

Not only does AUGI have a program to teach us, the forums help us learn from each other, there are publications that keep us updated on the products and technology we use, but now they are also going to help us find a job! Isn't that awesome! AUGI has created a Career Center.AUGI's Career Center has an area for Job Seekers, for Employers and Recruiters.For Job Seekers: You can post your

2 months later - AU 2009

2009-08-25T17:42:00.000-07:00

So I've not posted in a while, this has been harder that I thought, I have lots of topics but I'm not a good communicator, but I've made a promise to post even if I sound like a fool (I don't embarrass too easily). AU is coming soon less than 100 days now, and this year I hope to make lots of connections, our office has some exciting projects where I need to be an expert at Revit soon, well I

Revit 2010 Conceptual Design White Paper

2009-06-10T16:23:00.000-07:00

On the design reform webiste you can find the white paper that Autodesk will be or should have already released, sorry I don't have the link to the Autodesk page.Check out the Revit tutorials they have on their website, they are pretty good and very helpful. When Revit 2010 was freshly out, I used David's tutorials to get my head around the new conceptual massing family. I prefer it over the

Revit tools and Add-Ons

2009-06-10T13:06:00.000-07:00

RT? Sorry my Twitter "language" is taking over.I wanted to share a post from the CAD vs BIM blog. Jay has listed the "current" available tools we can use with Revit, from various sources, really good information!With the API open and people getting programmers to help out, (if they are not programmers already) we should see this part of the Revit "market" grow.Enjoy!

Revit OpEd: Central File Naming

2009-04-30T16:26:00.000-07:00

Revit OpEd: Central File NamingThis is a great post. Regarding the "traditional" way of naming a central file. A key new feature in Revit 2010 is change our ways.New things to come with this version of Revit, I hope to make the time to post about it all, but with many others already posting, I thought I'd start by linking to one I thought was good.Este es un buen post, por Steve Stafford, y

Revit 2010 - Create New Local

2009-04-24T08:51:00.000-07:00

With the new version out (over a month now). I had to revamp my training handout. I've already trained 6 new users! I will now be having Friday sessions, which I'm calling Revit Review, to get our existing users up to speed, we'll see how that goes.The ribbon has been good I think. It is a little frustrating to jump aroudn between tools, but I like the icons and the tooltips, I tell all users

Autodesk Assistance Program - Programa de Asistencia de Autodesk

2009-04-06T13:35:00.001-07:00

I wanted to share a press release by Autodesk: Autodesk Assistance Program Offers Help to Displaced WorkersThis is great help for those that are wanting to keep up to date with the software they are used to using. I've had people ask me where can they learn Revit, close to home, not too costly, and here Autodesk comes to the rescue.I hope many take advantage of this help.Quiero compartir un

AUGI

2009-03-19T11:19:00.000-07:00

Their forums are a great resource! If you don't know what AUGI is and you've been using Revit for over a year, then you're missing out. You should sign up and check it out. Browse the forums once a week if you can't do it more often. You'll be surprised how much you will learn. You'll start by learning about tools you didn't know existed, then by learning how to use some you thought were

Graphics Settings (Otra vez)

2009-02-18T17:31:00.000-08:00

It's been a while! But luckily because I've been so, so busy.Back to my dilemma of which way to go, edit Lineweights or change Objects Styles. I had to do both, in this case. I was hoping to only have to change Object Styles, since most were set to the same lineweight, it was obvious change would be needed. But then I noticed at some scales the lineweights had to change a bit, to differentiate

Graphic Settings - Lineweights

2009-01-07T08:47:00.000-08:00

I'm working on setting up a new studio, merging/combining two sets of standards. Currently both are CAD and I will have a CAD and Revit setup.The current set up I have is ongoing, constantly changing, more like morphing because we aren't married to our AutoCAD settings or way of doing things. But in what I'm currently setting up, it's not so simple. Lineweights and dimensioning are not

#AU2008

2009-01-05T17:24:00.000-08:00

This was my fourth time attending, I always enjoy how much more I can learn and the many people I meet.This year my focus was Revit and BIM Management. I took advanced sessions in Revit and I was happy with the results and very excited to start playing and figuring out how to implement some of what I've learned. The keynote's were good, we got a teaser on the next Revit realease, showing the

End of the Year

2008-12-22T12:16:00.000-08:00

It's that time to close the office. I will be off until next year, I won't be posting but I hope to have a few drafts set up and ready to go when I do come back to the working world. I hope to spend the time off with famly and not thinking of work, just a little break.I hope everyone has a nice holiday and cheers to a happy new year!!Ya es el tiempo de cerrar la oficina para descansar y pasar

Apology

2008-12-22T12:13:00.000-08:00

I've had a few issues with my blog. I've changed the blogspot location, I added many links but they disappeared, I fixed (tried) my feedburner url. I've had a few issues.Since I'm new at this, it's been a little difficult to fix the mess I made by changing the blogspot address. I didn't think it was a big deal since it's a new blog not many readers, well I found out I did have a few and I

Spanish language Revit blogs

2008-12-16T10:25:00.000-08:00

In looking for information on how Revit is used and managed, I find myself reading a few Spanish language blogs. If I spoke other languages I'd be searching those also!So for those of you than can read and understand Spanish here's a few I've liked to read:Revit Español on AUGI is the first place I looked at and realized there are many questions out there in the Spanish speaking world. This got