creative Solutions and Musings by Carl Gibson
Posts tagged Revit
Revit 2013 – New Features Tour
Mar 27th
So the time has finally come! The NDA has been lifted and the features are flying… well at least from those of us who actually waited for the NDA to be lifted. Here today I’d like to “briefly” list some of the new features in Revit 2013 and then spend the next weeks days going…
Revit TotD – 3.21.2012 | Family Creation Series – Family Planning
Mar 21st
So here’s the next installment in the Family Creation series. This is the continuation of our talk about planning out the families and getting everything ready before you go into the family editor. I talk about a strategy that I’m developing which I feel works pretty well, and involves separating out the Content, Structure and…
Revit TotD – 2.7.2012 | Somewhere to Start Families 2.2
Feb 8th
Yes! I’m really going to start this back up. A post here, A post there. Maybe one in between. Either way, I’ll be trudging through this series as well as posting the occasional impromptu tutorial post. In the meantime, I’m going to just leave the text that I wrote over 9 months ago and just…
BIM TotD – 2.6.2012 | EOH
Feb 6th
If you don’t know by now, I’m a KS junky… that’s Keyboard Shortcut for you mouse clickers (try it, try typing KS in Revit to see what happens!). So it occurred to me that I should share another quick KS that I use quite a bit. A personal preference of mine is to halftone objects that…
Stop putting info in your BIM model!!!
Jan 27th
Someone recently told me I need to find the balance between modeling and drafting. I asked them why and their response was “I’M AN AUTOCAD USER DON’T QUESTION ME!”.. no seriously, I have no clue what their response was because I stopped listening once I realized that the reason they didn’t want to model things…
Never again…
Jan 25th
When it comes to Revit, theories on workflow and implementation change on what seems to be a weekly and sometimes daily basis depending how deep into the rabbit hole you are. One such implementation strategy that I’ve long held to is teach the people how to detail first. This covers all flavors of sin in Revit including…
Revit Interface Class outline
Nov 2nd
So I’m teaching a quick class on the Revit Interface in my office and I thought I would post the class outline in case anyone wanted a reference guide or something to use as a start for a similar training class at their office. Enjoy and feel free to comment! If you use it, please…
New Product(s)! – Family Request and Jelly Jar Light!
Mar 1st
A goody for you today, although I feel like I’m going to busy in the near future because of this one. I have 2 great new products for you to look at. The first is a fun little light component. The Jelly Jar Light is a fun ceiling hosted light. The second has me only…
