Jonny Pye

Enscape and Design Options in Autodesk Revit

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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 …

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Autodesk AutoCAD: Take Control of your Lines

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Sometimes using AutoCAD can be a blessing and a curse, from the get go sometimes things that you think should be simple can be quite difficult. One of these conundrums presents itself in the form of editing the length of a line. Lets say I want to edit a line and make a 1000mm line …

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BIM 360 Docs App Integrations

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Some of you out there in the industry may have come across BIM 360 Docs, an Autodesk created Common Data Environment (or CDE). A large part of my role includes setting up and rolling out this platform to large companies so that they can streamline processes and better coordinate project information across multiple sites in …

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The Cascade Licensing Effect

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The cascading is slightly different with the collections, but follows a similar trend. Cascading behavior for Autodesk Software using Multi-user license (network license) Essentially, a product will look for the cheapest available license first so to speak. So, a subscription of a single product, followed by an older style perpetual license. After that, it will …

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Creating a Corridor in Civil 3D

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I’ve been using Civil 3D for a little while now and wanted to create a short blog with a few tips I found along the way to create a corridor (road design). 1. So first thing’s first, you will need a surface (existing ground). This can be created from many many different types of survey. …

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Using Halftone/Underlay Options in Revit

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Revit has great features for using your linked files for underlaying using to trace over in both 2D or 3D. Using halftone, you can easily distinguish what is you’re doing and what is underlay. But how do you change your Halftone/Underlay options in Revit? Manage > Additional Settings > Halftone/Underlay  Consider when using this, it …

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Halftone/Underlay Options in Revit

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Revit has great features for using your linked files for underlaying using to trace over in both 2D or 3D. Using halftone, you can easily distinguish what is your doing and what is underlay. But how do you change your Halftone/Underlay options in Revit? Manage > Additional Settings > Halftone/Underlay  Consider when using this, it …

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