All Things BIM / DC

Revit OpEd: Dept. of Echo - Type Catalog Formatting : Quick echo - David at Do U Revit? took the time to document how to format various parameters for inclusion in Type Catalogs. Nice effort, t...

Revit OpEd: Introducing Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 Shipp... : I worked with Patrick Davis, Martin Tauer, Charlie Busa and Angela MacDonnell on the update to the previous book. I've been told the "my" co...

RevitIt.com is looking for some beta testers for a new app related to worksets. If you are interested and work with worksets on a daily basis please contact us at info@revitit.com

Our friendly folks with the eTransmit for Revit team asked that we post a little survey. If you have been using the eTransmit technology preview over on labs for Revit, this is for you! Greetings! We released the eTransmit for Revit Technology Preview almost a month ago. Since then, we’ve received a lot of great feedback and a number of suggestions for improvements. Now we’d like to know which of these suggestions would be most useful to you. If you’ve been using the eTransmit for Revit Technology Preview, we’d appreciate it if you could participate in our user survey. It will take you about 20 minutes and is available here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/eTransmitForRevit The data we collect will help us understand how you are using this technology preview and what is and isn’t working for you. In particular, as part of the survey we are inviting you to rank all of the suggestions we’ve received to date. This survey is intended for people who have already tried out the eTransmit...

Revit OpEd: Revit Content Standards - ANZRS : "The Australia New Zealand Revit Standards (ANZRS) has been formally released. In March this year I wrote that they were drawing close to r..."

Parking in Revit? By Blogger, on June 30th, 2011 You are probably wondering why we will be talking about Parking ? This Parking is a Windows 7 features that (we believe) only happens on Intel i5 & i7 CPU Quad Core. It basically is a way for Windows to control power. It will put some CPU in “ parking ” mode if they are not needed. Thus reducing the power consumption but also… the power itself. What’s the point of having a Quad Core if Windows doesn’t use it to the fullest? Since the 2012 platform now supports multi-threading on some tasks it would be nice to harness all the power of our machines for those tasks. Here are the results of a non-scientific test conducted today (Open with audit a 2011 file and resave it. The file is fairly large and has several linked file in it) With Parking enabled With Parking disabled 20:52 mins 17:47 mins Basically on those features alone we seem to get close to a 15% gain in performance. Now… how do I disable the Parking feat...