This AutoCAD tip comes from Nicholas Bowley from the IMAGINiT BSD Team: Many people have taken advantage of Sheet Sets in AutoCAD since they came out in release 2005. What most people have not figure out is how to create views and view references, not to be confused with sheets. With this workflow, titles and callouts will update automatically with sheet set and view property changes. First create your blocks, you will need a view title and a callout block. The fields for the blocks should be using SheetSetPlaceholders with the Associate Hyperlink checked as indicated below. View Title ViewTitle... Continue reading

This Revit post come from Nicholas Bowley from the IMAGINiT BSD Team: Autodesk University 2016 has concluded and with it a wealth of information is available. IMAGINiT presented on several topics including “Revit Tips for MEP Fabricators” Nicholas Bowley IMAGINiT Technologies Learn advanced skills capitalizing on the new Fabrication functionality in Revit 2017 software. Using Revit schedules, assemblies, tags, views, interference checking, and new features in Revit 2017 software, we can produce fabrication documentation inside of the Revit software interface, which enables us to be fully coordinated with design consultants. We’ll cover how to model using Fabrication Parts; how to... Continue reading

This Revit tip come from Nicholas Bowley from the IMAGINiT BSD Team: I recently spent half a day helping someone pick up comments from the Architect on their project where the background in the consultants file did not display the same graphical representation in plan view as the architect. This could happen because of any number of reasons and in some cases several reasons. If this problem persists on every project, there are likely improvements that can be made to your template. View Range does not match Line-work came from an AutoCAD link which was turned off Category of Elements... Continue reading

Today we have another post from Carl Storms one our top Application Experts here at IMAGINiT: This year Autodesk has moved Autodesk University (AU) before Thanksgiving, two weeks earlier than normal. Without the turkey hangovers the learning will just be than much easier. Like past years IMAGINiT will have a great group of Speakers, along with a booth on the exhibition area (Booth #2917). The goal of this post is to share information about the IMAGINiT Speaker’s sessions, but before we learn about the sessions let’s get all the details about AU 2016. This year AU Las Vegas is on... Continue reading

Today's post comes from James Branagan another Application Expert here at IMAGINiT..... I have had questions from customers about creating a rolled plate in Autodesk’s Advance Steel, as opposed to folded plates. Whilst Advance steel does not have a tool to create rolled plates directly there are some things we can do to approximate them. The first option we have is to use the Folded Beam option. Draw an Arc and Copy it then select the width of the plate you want to create. On the Home tab > Objects panel, click the Folded Beam. This command can also be... Continue reading

Today we have a tip from Carl Storms one our top Application Experts here at IMAGINiT Revit fails, we have all had them at one time or another. I like to think that I’ve learned from mine and end the end they made me a better Revit user. Of course what happens if you don’t know you don’t know what you are doing is a fail? Well, in that case, you should check out this short YouTube video of IMAGINiT’s Top 5 Revit Users Fails for Autodesk Revit. I had a blast making the video, and I hope you enjoyed... Continue reading

What is the real difference between Autodesk Revit and Autodesk Revit LT? This is a question I get asked almost every week. So I'm going to chime in with my opinion and its only my opinion so please look at it that way. To me Revit is an authoring tool and Revit LT is primarily an editing tool. Now you can absolutely start a project in Revit LT and get it fairly well set up. But there are some important limitations to be aware of. First look at Autodesk's site as it does list the differences between the two products... Continue reading