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skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Wednesday, April 25, 2007. Revit News & Resources. The UK Revit Users group is hosting a Revit Design Awards 2007 but you have to work in the UK to enter.
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skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Monday, April 16, 2007. New Features in Revit 2008. Here is a list of some of the new and perhaps less obvious features in Revit Architecture 2008: Plan Regions are now always visible and easier to find.
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skip to main | skip to sidebar. Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Thursday, April 19, 2007. Malleristic Revitation. Aaron Maller has a new Revit blog, Malleristic Revitation. He has experience with Gehry Technologies Digital Project (V1, R2), Vectorworks, ArchiCAD, and ADT.
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