KarelCAD Free Revit Training Videos

Luke posted about this series of videos and they may be helpful to some of you... I personally think you should check out the 2013 suite workflow videos.  Cool Stuff.

Check out Luke's post and the video's here...

BIM Summit - Qatar

I have been following Stephen's posts all week while he attends the "BIM Summit" in Qatar.  I suggest you check it out to.  Some interesting topics and discussions...

BIM Summit Qatar - Day One
BIM Summit Qatar - Day Two
BIM Summit Qatar - Day Three
BIM Summit Qatar - Day Four

Free Revit Tutorials - Create a House (CAD Clips)

Daryl, over at CAD Clips and Revit Rocks, has released over 14 hours of free Revit training videos.... They are recorded using Revit 2009 (pre-ribbon) but a lot of stuff still applies.

In this series we will use a ‘work in progress’ approach to develop the series over a period of time.

Here are the main objectives:

Custom Families, Clay Tile, Materials, Lighting, Rendering, Cameras, Site and Toposurfaces.

Utilize a ‘Santa Barbara California’ modeling theme to keep it interesting.

Drill down into the new Mental Ray Rendering tools and Materials.

Take advantage of the CADclips supplied Content File which contains ALL the custom families in this series.

Learn to create the custom families yourself, from scratch.

We cover everything from Spanish Clay Tile Roofing to Topo Surfaces and Wall Scallops as we dress up the outside of our Santa Barbara models.

Click here to check out the tutorial series now...

The Revit Kid Project - Early Childhood Magnet School

Because I know how much I love seeing other's Revit projects I will continue to share some of mine.  This project was interesting in that my professor only gave us 5 days to design and present it (that is on top of working and 3 other classes!).

Given the time frame I took an interesting approach by nailing down the concept and a bubble diagram first and then building the Revit model... I actually brought in this concept sketch to Revit and using the bubble diagram (and all the ideas I had in my head) I quickly created the Revit model.

I then made the final hand sketched floor plan using the Revit model!  I know that sounds strange but it actually worked out really well.

Enjoy...  Just click the arrows to the right and it will present in the correct order.

Click here to view my Bloomfield Early Childhood Magnet School presentation....

Classical Architecture and Revit - Paul Aubin

Paul Aubin published an awesome post you should all check out.   I love seeing classical architecture modeled in Revit.  I worked on a few projects in the past in which we renovated or added onto old buildings with intricate details, ionic columns, and you name it.... The file sizes were huge but it was a ton of fun...

Click here to see Paul's post...

Revit LT - The Revit Kid's Perspective

I have been sort of sitting on this post for sometime now to give myself a chance to think, research, and form an opinion about the release of Revit LT from Autodesk.

This product launch appeared to create much debate in the past week or so between those for and those against it...  The epitome of these debates can be found in the contrasting blog posts at the Revit Forum Blog and at Revit Fact Check.  I urge you to read both of those posts entirely after reading the features list (or "non-features" list) and try to forge your own opinion.

My opinion, you ask?  Personally, I just don't get it.  I understand both the for and against arguments but I don't understand the value Revit LT will add to Revit itself.  A perfect example can be seen in the Revit Wiki....  Carefully read this workflow Autodesk published... Your thoughts?  My thought's were "WTF?".

Having started using Revit in a "small firm" (we started with 5 people and when I left there were 3).  The type of work we did was similar to what Autodesk claims Revit LT would cater towards.  Well, guess what.... We used Revit Architecture!  We used plenty of the features that don't fully exist in Revit LT (worksharing being one of the main components... It was great!  We couldn't "overwrite" each others CAD files.. WOOHOO).  I will stop there because I did not want this post to be a list of features that should or should not exist in Revit LT.

I don't have the numbers, and maybe one my readers do, but how many AutoCAD LT users ended up buying full blown AutoCAD?  Any AutoCAD LT users I know have been using it for years... It is great to make Revit more "affordable" but at what cost?  Will these users actually become Revit users!?  Will the lack of worksharing and other features create a CAD workflow in a Revit package??

With the right amount of Revit knowledge and workflow implemented on a project (even a little addition to a house) I know for a fact that the ROI of using Revit will pay for a full version very quickly...  So what is Revit LT actually doing?  What will it become?  What good or evil will it create? We will have to wait and see...

BIMStop Guide to BIM on iPad

A neat little freebie from BIM Stop... It's worth checking out...

http://www.bimstop.com/blog/bimstop-guide-to-bim-now-on-ipad/

This new interactive guide to BIM works on iPads and iPhones, and contains amazing dynamic content such as interactive 3D building information models and BIM objects. Here’s some screenshots from the interactive book app, once again we’ll be updating and adding to it regularly along side our PDF version.

Custom Revit Families Book - Revit 2013

I mentioned a little while ago about Michael's book that teaches Revit family creation.  Well, there is an updated version for Revit 2013 that you should check out as well....

Click here to read the previous post about the book and Michael.
Click here to check out the book itself.

Don't forget to mention that you heard about the book from "The Revit Kid.com!" during checkout.

KubeGL - View Autodesk 360 Cloud Panorama's Offline

So you are using Autodesk 360 Cloud rendering to create nifty little panorama's and you want to view those panoramas outside of the Autodesk 360 website....  Well, it is very easy to do....

1. Log onto Autodesk 360 Cloud Rendering and download your panorama as a .jpeg.
2. Download KubeGL.exe
3. Run KubeGL.exe 
4. Select your .jpeg and click OK.

And there you have it!  Spin, zoom, and enjoy...  Oh, and wait for Autodesk to up the quality of Panoramas...

For more information about KubeGL click here...