Point clouds have become more and more common in the construction industry, with the addition of ever more affordable scanners such as the BLK 360 companies have taken it upon themselves to develop the processes they have for site measuring. What I plan to do in this brief blog is to discuss the best practise …
For those that have used Enscape, it can be an amazingly powerful rendering tool that gives the designer a very quick way to communicate visually to clients and other designers. This can be enhanced by using some of the simple functions within Revit such as design options that can be quickly flicked between in Revit …
How do you create custom reports in the Plant 3D Data Manager? If you have been using Plant 3D you would probably have noticed the data manager, which contains all the meta data of your Plant 3D project. It’s a very powerful tool which enables you to analyse, search and even edit the data quickly …
Issue You want to create multiple layer state ‘themes’ that have different properties from the default layer properties, you want to be able to revert backward to the default properties and return to the custom themed properties quickly with one click. Solution It is possible, using the layer states manager, to create multiple layer states …
In the world of engineering, 2D drawings have traditionally been our tool for sharing designs. However, with the advent of 3D modelling, the 2D drawing paradigm is starting to show its age; is there perhaps a better alternative? Model-Based Definitions In my ideal world, we wouldn’t have 2D drawings at all – we’d simply have …
Autodesk’s Product Design and Manufacturing Collection (PDMC) now comes with an embedded nesting utility for Inventor, and it’s fantastic. Part of the economy of sheet metal manufacturing comes from the ability to cut component parts out of a single sheet of… well, sheet metal. In order to minimise wastage, it is important to maximise the …
Why do we bother with 3D models? Didn’t we get to the moon just fine with 2D drawings? The truth is that 3D models have so much more to offer than pretty visuals. Read on to discover the great things that become possible when working in the third dimension! In a Nutshell By using 3D …
A few years ago, Autodesk greatly improved the interoperability between Inventor and AutoCAD by allowing them to open each other’s drawings. Traditionally, this meant the IDW and DWG formats respectively. Soon, it became possible to save Inventor drawings in the DWG format. However, confusion arose as ‘Inventor DWGs’ were not the same format as ‘AutoCAD …