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skip to main | skip to sidebar. Home. Photos. Geeky. About. Labs. Expressions in Solitude. ATTITUDE, TECHNOLOGY & REALITY. April 01, 2006. HTML - Linking within a page. Earlier, I was wondering how do I link to an article that requires scrolling down to middle of the page. The below answer is being borrowed from this site. To link to a specific section in a page, you need to place tags at the beginning of the section you will be linking to ( section_name = a unique name for each section of a pag
We have more choices everyday whether we want them or not. Remember when there were only four television stations? NBC, ABC, CBS and public TV. As a kid I remember when the President’s State of the Union address would come on. “Oh man! The President is on! Now I have to watch a documentary on Barn swallows." Some of you may be too young to remember life before cable, but I bet most can remember a time when your choice of CAD technologies was limited to one.
Google has released a free version of Sketch-Up, called Google Sketch-Up. There is still a pro-version with some higher end features, but if you just want to get into 3D modeling, this is a great place to start. Try it here; [link] I received progress renderings from the outside rendering consultant that I sent an exported Revit model to. The renderings look good, and I have not heard about any major problems with the model from the firm.
I visited Mesa Verde in Colorado near the Four Corners. This was my first encounter with the “ruins” of the ancestral Puebloan people, progenitors of the Pueblo and Hopi nations. I had heard about Mesa Verde since I was a kid, but nothing could prepare me for the awesome reality. Despite the influx of tourists, there is a peaceful and spiritual quality that persists.
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constructionattorneyblog. Attorneys at Sabo & Zahn. Sabo & Zahn. Werner Sabo. Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is also a licensed architect, having practiced architecture for a number of years prior to establishing his law practice in 1981. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular co
The Las Vegas Golf & Tennis Club has selected The Korte Company as the General Contractor for its new store to be located in the 2nd phase of the highly successful District shopping center in Green Valley. The Korte Company will be working with Indigo Architecture Studios, the Architect of Record, in the development and implementation throughout the design and construction phases of this project.
The Las Vegas Golf & Tennis Club has selected The Korte Company as the General Contractor for its new store to be located in the 2nd phase of the highly successful District shopping center in Green Valley. The Korte Company will be working with Indigo Architecture Studios, the Architect of Record, in the development and implementation throughout the design and construction phases of this project.
Do you want to add tile pavers on a slab, 2x6 joists in a section drawing, or wood shake to a roof section? The repeating Detail Tool will draft detail components along a line you define at spacing you define. Go to Drafting. Repeating Detail. Edit/New. Duplicate. Here you can add new Repeating Details to your project. You must first load the detail component you want to repeat.
If you have ever wondered why all the architects think Sketch Up is so great, find out for your self. Google is now allowing downloads of a personal version at. [link] To add to your excitement, 2007 Revit products now import/link Sketch Up (skp) files. Happy Sketching.
Haven't done very much recently. I've converted our standard 2D Line Styles to a set of Revit Line Patterns, the next step will be to match object style's default line thicknesses to the line thicknesses assigned in our 2D CAD standard layers. I recently saved a Revit Building file off as a solids dwg file and sent it to a an outside rendering firm.
Using the sun to heat your house has got to be the most economical and ecologically benign way to keep comfortable when the temperatures drop. There are a number of common strategies for doing this. My favorite method is passive solar design, where there are no “active” fans or pumps to contend with. Most passive solar designs are basically invisible, because the room itself is the collector.
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constructionattorneyblog. Attorneys at Sabo & Zahn. Sabo & Zahn. Werner Sabo. Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is also a licensed architect, having practiced architecture for a number of years prior to establishing his law practice in 1981. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular co
The Korte Company has recently made staffing moves including the hiring of new employees as a move to keep pace with its increased construction volume and growth over the last several quarters. As part of that move, The Korte Company has added three members to the Special Services Department, including Dan O’Neill, Barney Cline and Michelle Canales.
Nested Families: We've had window families that were getting to be upwards of 2 MBs making the project file huge (over 140MB). On average window and door families should be 140kb - 400kb (we do have a few ornate doors that are larger). It turns out one of our users was loading window families into window families into window families. Make sure you purge unused when you're done with your family.
I think plenty of engineering firms have already adopted or have plans in motion to investigate ABS, when along comes Revit Systems. Well…. crap. What do I do now? Do I put ABS on hold? Am I wasting my time in ABS? What is the difference between the two? Where there used to be a clear direction there is uncertainty now. We engineers are facing what architects faced back in 2002 when Autodesk gave Revit its first big push.
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So its been a few days since I posted, but then I haven't done very much in Revit either. What I have been playing with is the shared family setting for families. Turns out that if a family is shared, and nested into another family, you can only link to the nested family's instance parameters, type parameters are un-touchable because you're supposed to use a type parameter to allow the user to choose a different type of the nested family.
Why build and live in a small house? First of all, it is more convenient to have what you need nearby. Life proceeds smoothly when the things you need are close at hand. Also, I might point out that limited space forces you to select only those things that you really need to live with, helping to keep clutter out of your life. Another fairly obvious point is that a smaller house costs less to build and maintain.
constructionattorneyblog. Attorneys at Sabo & Zahn. Sabo & Zahn. Werner Sabo. Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is also a licensed architect, having practiced architecture for a number of years prior to establishing his law practice in 1981. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular co
The Korte Company was awarded the contract for the new construction of The Sacred Heart Catholic Church located in Ely, Nevada. The project is scheduled to be completed this month. This facility will replace the original church with an increased square footage totaling 11,394 and will feature a bell tower. This parish is part of the Diocese of Las Vegas whom the company has done substantial work with in the past.
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There is a lot one can learn about the family editor. I'll just briefly describe what it is and what tips will help you get started with creating custom doors and windows. The family editor is where one models complex geometries such as door families, window families, furniture families, custom annotations, fireplaces, etc. The tools available in the family editor are somewhat different than those available in a project file.
As “consumers” we are frequently confronted with life style decisions that can impact our environment. There are a few choices in this life that can make a big difference in what the quality of life will be for those who follow us. Going with the flow of our culture is hard to avoid, and unfortunately the flow is not in the right direction for evolving a sustainable future.
I have created a new page at www.greenhomebuilding.com about Poured Earth, which is similar to ordinary concrete, in that it is mixed and formed like concrete and uses Portland cement as a binder. The main difference is that instead of the sand/gravel used as an aggregate in concrete, poured earth uses ordinary soil (although this soil needs to meet certain specifications) and generally uses less Portland cement.
So, two things I worked on yesterday. I spent a better part of my day getting a google earth topo surface & image into my Revit model as an underlay for rendering. The amazing thing is, that after 4 CAD programs & G-earth everything still scaled out correctly with only a minor margin of error (minor when talking about a mile long image). I imported our site plan from Microstation into sketch-up, into which I took a 2D & 3D G-earth snap shot.
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So, welcome to my blog if you're reading it. As the title indciates this blog will be about the Software Product called Revit. www.revit.com. In any case this blog will be more stream of conscience, then actual thought out "posts". I will try to update it on a regular basis, as I hope to use it as a journal of my work with Revit. Just a short note about myself: I graduated from RPI with a degree in architecture, and now work in a 500+ strong firm.
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