May 25, 2013

Autodesk Seek: get real world BIM models for free!

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Want to get real world Revit and AutoCAD models? Have you tried Autodesk Seek? Real models from real manufacturers!

Creating Realistic Light Bulb in Revit Architecture

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If you have rendered your model with artificial lights in Revit, you probably have seen that the result can be ‘not so realistic’. We don’t see the light bulbs glowing. We can see the lights, but it looks all wrong… where is the light came from? To create a ‘glowing’ light bulb, you need to [...]

Creating Title Block From AutoCAD Sheet

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Migrating to Revit? You can quickly create company standard title block using your existing title block in AutoCAD.

Creating Your Own Revit Families

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Want to create your own Revit family? This e-book covers the basic, and provided with video that explains the exercises.

Creating Vinyl Siding Wall

We have discussed how we can define wall structure horizontally. Now the problem is, how can we define the structure vertically? We have discussed how we can add reveals and sweeps to do this. In this article, let us discuss how we can create a vinyl siding wall as example. The common way (and probably [...]

Creating Line Based Cabinet

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In this Revit family tutorial, we learn how to create a line based family. Very useful for typical object and placed along a line!

Revit Family Exercise: Creating Brick Soldiers

Before we continue our Revit family tutorial, we are going to do a little exercise, creating window with sill, keystone, and tilt soldiers. To make this different with the previous tutorial, we are going to create an arc form for the top of this window. Modifying The Window Opening Create a new Revit family. Use [...]

Adding More Void and Solid Forms

We have done with creating door basic. We add the main panel and symbolic lines. In this tutorial, we will add more forms: void and solid. As I always said, creating Revit family is just a repetitive process. More complex your object is, more repetition you will do. Not more difficult,but certainly more work! Open [...]