Beginning of Revit and Archicad

Founders of the Revolution----Revit While the developments were happening rapidly in the United States, the Soviet Block had two programming geniuses who would end up defining the BIM market as it is known today. Leonid Raiz and Gábor Bojár would go on to be the respective co-founder and founder of Revit and ArchiCAD.  Leonid Raiz--- Co-founder Revit ArchiCAD developed in 1982 in Budapest, Hungary by Gábor Bojár, a physicist...

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Sketchbook----Desktop

SketchBook® Pro 6 Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro sketching software for Windows or Mac computers is a fun and intuitive paint and drawing app, and can transform your computer into an ideal artist’s toolkit. With tools designed for professional artists, llustrators, and designers, the easy-to-use interface can help unlock the artist in everyone. SketchBook Pro is specifically designed to work with pen tablets, such as Wacom® Bamboo™, Intuos®, and Cintq® products, or with Windows® tablet devices to deliver an authentic drawing experience. SketchBook®...

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History of BIM

The Beginning..... A brief history of Building Information Modeling, the software that has disrupted traditional methods of representation and collaboration in architecture. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a term that has become ubiquitous in the design and construction fields over the past 20 years, but where did it come from? The story is rich and complex with players from the United States, Western Europe and the Soviet Block competing...

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Autodesk Formit--------Conceptual Massing Tool

Autodesk Formit Autodesk® FormIt mobile app helps you capture building design concepts digitally anytime, anywhere ideas strike. Use real-world site information to help create forms in context and support early design decisions with real building data. Experience a continuous Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow by synchronizing designs in the cloud for further refinement using Autodesk® Revit® software products and other applications. Express...

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POINT CLOUD

Pretty Interesting new set of feature in Revit Architecture is, Point Cloud. Point Cloud is basically a collection of data in X,Y, and Z ordinates. You can collect this data by 3D scanners and then these 3D scanned point clouds will help you to create 3D models. Point cloud files are .rcp and .rcs type format files. If the file is in raw format such as .pcg or .las format, then you will be prompted to index the data. The indexed point cloud file will then be converted into .rcp and .rcs format files which is further inserted in a Revit...

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Stair Component into Custom Sketch form

Revit Architecture 2014 affords you with one of the exciting tool, i.e. convert Stair Component to Sketch. This feature aids you to convert the stair component to sketch and to design the stair component of your own style. Figure 1: Creating a Stair Component Let us know how we can create a stair component and then to convert it into the sketched form to edit and create your own stair. Here are the following steps to be followed to draw a...

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Revit Structure 2014 and Robot Structural Analysis--------Link

Hi, This is very exciting. This video will show how the bi-derictional associativity of Revit Structure works with Robot 2104. ...

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