Revit Add-ons

I’ve either been a sleep or been too busy, but be sure to check out Tim Grimm’s Revit Add-ons blog; a one stop resource for anything to do with Revit Add-ons, plugins, tools etc. Great site Tim!

http://revitaddons.blogspot.co.uk/

Use Windows Live Writer 2011?

You should be aware of this rather annoying bug!!! Google or Microsoft please get it sorted!

http://blog.jtbworld.com/2011/11/500-internal-server-error-bx-7sd12g.html

Grevity Blog

Got pointed in the direction of this blog today by my old boss Tim Bates, who now heads up Newforma in EMEA. He said be sure to check out Andy Milburns Revit & BIM blog!

http://www.grevity.blogspot.com/

Andy is an architect working in Dubia for a firm called GAJ. Some really cool stuff here, be sure to take a look.

Student Showreel 2011 TU Graz

I got an facebook message from Philipp Müller yesterday. Phil is a student expert team leader from the TU graz in Austria. He & his team have just created a new youTube video show reel which showcases projects created in Revit & 3ds projects from student experts and the students that where taught at the TU Graz in Austria. Be sure to check it out, cos there is some great work here!

Simply Complex Blog

 

After RTCUSA, Marcello Sgambelluri (he of Revit elephant fame) dropped me a note to say he has started a blog. He has started his blog site to be able to profile projects and Revit families that incorporate complex geometry. Be sure to check it out…

http://therevitcomplex.blogspot.com/

Nuformer & Kinects

You have got to check this out…..

NuFormer – 3D video mapping interactivity test, April 2011 from NuFormer Projection on Vimeo.

design-cubed blogspot

 

I thought I’d share this blog with you, from Stephen Blowers of Design Cubed here in the UK. I have known Stephen for a number of years, he is an architect, is as passionate about technology as me, is a Revit User, is a member of the London Revit User Group, is a 3dsMax User & has recently started his own design firm called Design-Cubed.

His recent article about using the Ipad & Adobe CS5.5 is very interesting. Yesterday, Stephen showed me how he had taken a series of images from Revit & used these to create an interactive architectural presentation for use on the Ipad. Trust me I got “very” excited, really cool stuff. So be sure to check his blog….

http://design-cubed.blogspot.com/

Autodesk Revit Blogspot - Stats

Do you have a blog? Well if your are using Google Blogger to host your blog you will have noticed a new feature which has sneaked its way in. Typically I have used Google Analytics to track my blog activity. Not for any particular reason, just because I find it interesting to see where the pockets of Revit activity is happening around the world. However, a new feature is available to you when you login to you Blogger Dashboard. You will discover a new tab called Stats.

This is like a realtime version of Analytics. You can view allsorts, you can even see which posts are being read at a particular moment in time. Be sure to check it out as its fascinating.

Also, check out William L Campo’s post on different ways to view Blogger.

http://undernda.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-point-of-view.html

Finally, a quick shout out to all those that have linked to my Revit Architecture 2012 preview post. So far it received 12647 viewings; I am glade you have found it useful and I am humbled….

designbymany

The guys over at Design Reform / Case Inc have come up with a novel new site, called Design By Many, its a community base site where you can post design challenges. The site is currently running a competition to design a parametric version of  Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House.

If you are into parametric design, make sure you throw you hat into the ring; they are offering a HP Design Jet 111 printer as a prize! This is my rather scrawny effort…:-)

Anyway be sure to check the site out at http://www.designbymany.com/

Undernda blog

My colleague and friend, William Lopez Campo has finally decided to unleash a blog on us. You may well remember William from last years AU 2009 design slam, he was also the winner for the Berlin design slam with this little beauty…

A quick chat with William today and this is his vision for the blog…

“I’m hoping to capture some of those little developments I start but never finish, like the Inverse Kinematics application in Revit, or some scripting ideas that never progressed. Hopefully the comments and feedback will keep me going and I may get help to go past the tricky bits where I get stuck or inspire other explorations.”

Be sure to check out his blog at http://undernda.blogspot.com/

I promise you, there will be some high level stuff here! Welcome William, to the world of blogging. :-)

Another UK Revit blog appearance

Chris Senior from Revit Factory dropped me an email yesterday to say that he has started a blog called http://revitelemental.blogspot.com/.

“I’ve decided to setup this blog to discuss anything and everything Revit but primarily focussing on Revit content creation. I’ve been creating Revit families for the past 6 or 7 years and learnt a lot about what should and what shouldn’t be modelled as well as defining the appropriate level of detail. This has primarily been for Architectural firms I worked at in the past, then in more recent years for manufacturers and private companies”

As a long time user of Revit Chris has some good advice, so be sure to check his site out.

How did I miss this blog?

A slap wrist for me! With so much going on in the blogger sphere I haven’t a clue how I missed out on this blog, but be sure to check our Peter McCarthy’s http://revit-detail.blogspot.com/ blog, especially for those that say Revit can’t detail! Peter does a great job and changing that urban myth!

LRUG (London)

What the hell is “LRUG” you may ask? Well LRUG is short for London Revit User Group. Not more Rugs!!!! Unlike the US, the UK has always had a bit of a problem getting User Groups off the ground. They start, then run into allsorts of issues with funding, politics, goals etc etc. Been there, done that. So a couple of months ago I reopened a thread about a need for a UK group driven by users on Linkedin. It went along the lines; If I managed to get a room and a projector and every body threw in five quid for a beer and pizza, how many would actually turn up? The overall response from everybody was that it sounded like a bargain. So off the back of this, the LRUG was born. With the help of Carl Collins of Arup Associates and Alan Woolridge of Scott White Hookins and  Revit Learning Curve fame; we now have a London User Group. We are even organised enough to have a web site! wow! For more details go to……

http://www.lrug.org.uk/

The group plans to start smallish and hopefully grow into something which is sustainable….often these groups fall apart after a few meetings. But I (we) are keen that this group can grow and flourish. It has no secret agendas, it is trying to go back to grass roots; a group for users to share knowledge and learn from one another across all disciplines of Revit. We have been speaking with AUGI in the UK, so hopefully we will get some support from these guys. Whilst internet forums are a good place to share knowledge and learn from others, sometimes there is nothing like a warm beer and a dodgy pizza and face to face conversation to share your Revit tales. The first meeting is today 17th March 2010, this will be hosted by Arup Associates in London.

What I’m also hearing, is that a user group called BIM up North for northern UK users is in process of being formed as well as a Scottish user group. So 2010 could be the year of the Revit user group for the UK! :-)

Redesign London???

Fancy redesigning the London Skyline? If so checkout this interactive tool from Hayes Davidson. Hayes Davidson are one of the UK’s premier visualisation houses and have provided imagery worldwide to many of the worlds leading architectural firms.

http://www.hayesdavidson.com/skyline/

The Sustainable Design Toolbox blog

Good Revit colleague of mine, Simon Gillis from Autodesk, has started a great blog called The Sustainable Design Toolbox; which as it says, provides a European view on sustainable design and Autodesk sustainable design tools.

I have known Simon for ages and is employed as a technical sales consultant for Autodesk in Northern Europe, focused on Revit Architecture and Ecotect Analysis. He has worked for Autodesk for 11 years and before that various architectural practices in the UK. All round good guy with a wickedly dry sense of humour, check his blog out here…

http://thesustainabledesigntoolbox.typepad.com/

HOK BIM Solutions

Just a quick update to say that HOK CAD solutions Blog is no longer; its rebranded as HOK BIM Solutions and can be now be found at……

http://hokbimsolutions.blogspot.com/

This is part of HOK’s firmwide effort to drive forward with Building Information Modelling.

Newforma blog

Thought I'd share this with you, but a good friend of mine and ex colleague / manager, Tim Bates has started a blog on Newforma. Tim was never a big fan of blogs, but over the past few years I have managed to win him over; check out his post on I Hate Blogs!. :-)

Tim is well respected in the UK AEC community and helped drive the use of ADT in the UK in the early days on such projects as T5 and Barts in London. Prior to joining Newforma as Director of EMEA Operations, Tim was technical director of Excitech Ltd where he employed me as a Revit technical consultant. He was also a member of the CE Avanti Committee and secretary of the UK AEC Community Group, and has published several CPD-approved articles on technology-related topics in the Excitech Design Productivity Journal. Prior to joining Excitech, Tim founded and managed his own Autodesk dealership, T B Design Systems, based in Bristol, England.

Check out his blog here.....

http://pimintheuk.blogspot.com/

Building Coder and Revit Form Creation API

Jeremy Tammik's Building Coder blog has a amazing article on form creation using the API in Revit Architecture 2010. Not being a programmer, most of its gone over my head (need to get on a API class I think!!). But check it out here.....

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2009/07/revit-form-creation-api.html

CADwerx RevPac 1.0

A good friend  passed this on to me last week. This looks set to be a very useful tool!

"RevPac is a new set of productivity tools for Revit. For this initial release of RevPac the concentration will be on user interface enhancements. Later, tools to automate common tasks and streamline existing tasks will be added."

Check it out at:-

http://www.cadwerx.net/default.aspx?Path=RevPac

Excitech Blog - technology4design.com

My former colleagues, Excitech have started their own blog called technology4design. It focuses primarily on Autodesk software solutions and you will find some good information on all aspects, from Architectural through to Civils.

Its worth checking it out at www.technology4design.com