What Revit Wants: Repurposing the Autodesk USB Media

What Revit Wants: Repurposing the Autodesk USB Media

If you happen to have a 16Gb or 32Gb 2012 Autodesk Design Suite USB thumb drive gathering dust in a drawer, I repurposed one (after backing up the data) by using the following tool … after reading Luke’s handy post and a handful of the comments:
Formatter.zip
It’s a simple tool with one button. I make no guarantees or warranties but it worked for me.

Cheers

Vasari 2.5 coming... great new features

Project Vasari's upcoming 2.5 release has some great new features.
Great new push-pull capabilities in modeling, getting closer to sketchup capability. Select a vertical face, and press the space bar to show the alternate gizmo that allow perpendicular extrusion where before you'd only be able to stretch the model out.

We also now have the capability of editing/modeling in perspective views with 99% of the functionality of the ISO 3D view. This has added a new type of 3D view called Vasari 3D. When you open the file in Revit 2012, the view will be there but Revit will not have this capability. On returning to Vasari the perspective editing capability returns.

Also you'll see some good improvement to the autozoning capabilities, providing better accuracy and better courtyard zoning.

Keep checking ProjectVasari.com for the release date.

David Light's got a great breakdown of the new additions here:

http://autodesk-revit.blogspot.com/2012/03/project-vasari-25.html

Revit DB

I am in the middle of reorganizing my home office and was in the need for some Swedish furnishings for my Revit model. I came across this site which has some decent Euro pieces, including Ikea. They are pretty well made and if you speak Portuguese, then you’ll understand the material parameters. Thanks to Rui for posting and hosting some cool content for the everyday man.

Revit DB

AU Innovation forum

In previous posts I have shown you how you can use Citrix to run Revit in the cloud from a mobile device. The topic of the innovation forum is using Revit and other applications and tools in the cloud. For the speakers/panelists, the infinite computing power of the cloud has opened up great potential to do projects they otherwise would not be able to do on conventional high power desktops.
Ken Young from HOK is using a similar citrix system as we have setup, and is having great success on Revit projects.

Autodesk University begins!

Once again I find myself at AU this year! The General session is about to begin....and rumor is that Mark Zuckerberg is somewhere around here and his sister is presenting on the topic of innovation.
Here are some shots from the general session