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Twinmotion – Improve Visualisation, Animations and Lighting when working with Revit Models

Twinmotion, is a real time immersive 3D Architectural Visualisation package that works from within Autodesk Revit and Graphisoft ARCHICAD and has very recently been bought by Epic Games. Its another good alternative for high quality visualization to the other key players in the market, Enscape and Lumion. Functional Software Twinmotion is essentially a software of …

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Include Grids in your 3D Views in Revit 2022

In earlier version releases of Revit, we had Levels added in 3D which was helpful from a coordination and visual point of view. Now in Revit 2022, we can visualise grid lines in a 3D view, select how we want to show them and on which levels. If grid lines already exist within our project, …

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A Guide To Linking Material Image Library From BIM 360 Docs To Revit

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Autodesk BIM 360 Docs and Autodesk Docs give users greater functionality to work on their projects from anywhere at anytime. As more and more users start to use the applications on their projects, which they are accessing whilst working from home, the need for VPN access to the office server is reducing.  I have been …

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Importing Revit 2022 File into Inventor 2022 Error Message

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“0x8013150d: C\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\Revit Interoperability 2022\Rx\ATFRevitRCEHost.exe” when opening or exporting Revit RVT file in Inventor 2022 Error Message: There has been reports that when trying to open or export a Revit RVT file in Inventor 2022, the following error message occurs: When opening an .RVT file:  0x8013150d: C\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\Revit Interoperability 2022\Rx\ATFRevitRCEHost.exe When exporting an …

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How to Export an RVT file from Autodesk Inventor

In Inventor 2022, Autodesk have introduced the ability to export Revit Project Files (RVT) directly from the Autodesk Inventor interface, further enhancing the collaboration possibilities between the manufacturing and construction industries and their retrospective products. The new functionality can be found inside the Simplify command in Inventor 2022, and comes with several useful options which …

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Revit Visibility Settings Explained

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Revits Visibility settings are quite simple once you understand them, which is what I intend to do here. There are a two concepts we first need to understand: The hierarchy and categorisation of elements. Revit has a simple hierarchy for most elements, Instance -> Type -> Family -> Category. You could have an instance of …

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BIM Component Families – Useful Free Library Add ins

There are a number of available direct access library add ins for Revit to help with manufacturers components prepopulated with parameters and useful metadata which can help with efficiency and compilation speed of model production especially in the technical design portion of a project. This blog covers a few useful libraries to consider. There are …

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Import Revit Model into Inventor

How to import a Revit model into Inventor whilst maintaining the model structure? Using the latest versions of Revit and Inventor we can directly open a Revit project in Inventor whilst keeping the model structure and relationship intact. Starting with an Inventor assembly file open in Inventor, select the import CAD Files command from the …

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