Many Architects are leveraging tools such as Rhino or Catia for their surfacing capability, but wanting to take that data across to Autodesk Revit to integrate into their BIM Authoring Environment. Traditionally, this can be a painful and manual process, but there are ways of getting a good quality, and smooth representation of aesthetically pleasing …
As you will most likely already know, product keys are required for installation of Autodesk products. These change year on year, but are pretty much the same for most Autodesk customers of the same product, although there are some differences between Vanilla AutoCAD sold separately, and that of those inside of a legacy Design Suite. …
Inside of Revit, whilst we are typically working to a given Level of Definition (Level of Detail) which defines exactly how complex our models should be, certainly in architectural designs we have the need to make the models look that little bit nicer, especially for visualisation purposes. One way we can really improve the look …
Autodesk 3ds Max is one of the industry’s leading visualisation platforms, and capable of producing simply stunning photorealistic imagery and animations. With the rise in use of Virtual Reality units such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rift in recent years to bring our visualisations to life, there have been more and more users looking at …
Solibri have today announced the release of Solibri Model Checker v9.8. This builds on the already successful quality checking tool, and brings in some useful new functionality to an already powerful product. Solibri Model Checker (SMC) v9.8 offers something for both existing and new users. Current Solibri fans will notice a modern, fresh, redesigned user …
A customer called in earlier this week wanting to link Autodesk Inventor with a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. In other words, driving the value of a dimension inside of Inventor with a value from an Excel sheet. There are 2 possibilities here, using either a direct link with Excel between files or using iLogic. In this …
Solibri Model Checker allows arguably the most comprehensive set of Model Validation tools on the market at the moment, and leveraging the intelligence and power of the Industry Foundation Class (IFC) is really giving it’s users the ability to validate almost anything. Whilst reading this blog in no way replaces the need for in depth …
I’m not exactly old, but I can’t help but think, whilst sat on a flight to Edinburgh, how far technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) has come in my lifetime. I am sat on a flight which I booked on my iPad, and my car is parked in a car park booked from my …