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E-book: Revit Architecture 2010: Your First Residential Design

December 6, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

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I have posted several Revit Architecture tutorial in this blog for months. I compiled them in an e-book that you can read comfortably without having to visit the pages. It’s not exactly the same with the existing tutorials, but yes, it’s very similar. I fixed some editorial errors, add some more screenshots to describe the steps better, and provide some tutorial files. With the tutorial files, you can compare what you did to my model, or simply start a chapter using files provided. If you want to see what’s inside the book, download the table of contents here.
So I stop providing free contents? Surely not! I still provide free contents on this blog. Consider this is an alternative to read the blog content for a small fee. And also consider this as a donation to make this blog better.
Click this button to buy this e-book. After the payment successful, you will be automatically redirected to download page. I will also send you an email for alternative download link, but because of the time zone difference, please be patient that I can’t email you immediately. The e-book price is US$ 12.5.

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AutoCAD Performs Incorrect Calculation

December 6, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

quickcalc
My friend notify me about this bug a couple days ago. He mention that when we use the QUICKCALC (or CAL) command, AutoCAD returns incorrect value. This is a bug.

Try to calculate 750-693. You may see it returns incorrect value. I got 56. There are some more incorrect results.
Yesterday, VMichl notify me that this issue has been fixed in AutoCAD 2010 update 1.
Snipped from readme:

The following defects have been fixed:
(One of them is:)
QUICKCALC
Calculations performed by the QUICKCALC command may be incorrect.

If you have the same problem, download the update 1 here. Install it, and see if it’s fixed.

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How to: Reference Objects to File/URL in AutoCAD

October 16, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

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I had this question yesterday. Someone asked if if it’s possible to link an object in AutoCAD to another file. So if he needed to see the components specifications, or 3D model of a certain component from P&ID drawing, he can simply click the link. I said, have you tried using hyperlinks?

Hyperlink maybe not a popular feature in AutoCAD, but it can make some use. You can add hyperlinks to an object. The hyperlinks can be pointed to the manufacturer website, to a word document that contains the installation procedure, or to excel file that contains product specifications.


Adding and Using Hyperlink

Adding a hyperlink is very easy. Activate hyperlink from insert tab, data panel.

hyperlink

AutoCAD will ask you to select object, then you will see this dialog.

AutoCAD hyperlink dialog

In this example I add link to specification document in my local computer. In the real world, you might want to point it to a file on your server. Or a page on website.

Not only website link and local files, you can link to layout or saved view in your model.

view of this drawing 

views

You can also link to email address. Maybe you want to link a certain item to vendor contact person for maintenance or something. This can be useful for building maintenance purpose.

Hyperlink Within Block

If you insert and place a block, then insert a hyperlink, it will only attach to an instance of that block. When you insert another block with the same definition, then the new block won’t have the hyperlink. Unless you copy it.

If you want every block links to a certain file/website, you can edit the block and insert hyperlink to the elements. With this method, not only you can define the hyperlink once. You can also insert several links to different elements. Including nested block.

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AutoCAD 2010 Sticky Ribbon Panels

September 28, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

sticky ribbon panels I found about this earlier today on Shaan blog. Now we can tear off ribbon panel and floats in your drawing area. Similar to toolbars.

Having ribbon interface sometimes so annoying when we have to move to different tabs frequently. So I can just tear off some panels I use frequently, and stick to home tab.

This feature is also available in Revit Architecture 2010, and I believe all Autodesk product 2010.

How to tear it off? Just click on panel title, hold and drag it to your drawing area.

panel title

There are some options available in this ribbon panel:

ribbon panel options

  1. Click on your ribbon tab title will expand and show all tools available in that panel.
  2. Return panel to ribbon
  3. Toggle orientation. By default the panel orientation is horizontal, you can change it to vertical by clicking this button.

You can also drag and drop the panel to return it to ribbon. This panel will be placed back to where it belongs. For example, palettes panel will be placed on view tab, no matter what tab is active. We can’t move a panel from one tab to another with this trick. You have to do it through CUI if you want to do that.

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Cool way to Open Your Drawing: Drag n Drop!

September 21, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

mr__mouse Sometimes I just hate to open files from dialog box. Some files are not easy to find from a small dialog box, so I need to find it from my Windows Explorer or doing search/find. It would be a waste of time if I have to point my open dialog box to that file location. So what do I do? Just drag and drop to open it!

There are three way to do this:

  1. Drag your file to your AutoCAD icon on your desktop. You don’t need to open your AutoCAD, this will open AutoCAD and open your file!
  2. Drag your file to your AutoCAD title bar. It’s the one mentioning your AutoCAD version name, and your active file. This will open your file in your AutoCAD session.
  3. Drag your file into your opened file. This will insert your drawing to active drawing as block.

I expect there is another drag and drop functionality: insert a drawing as reference. Sorry to say that AutoCAD doesn’t support referencing drawing using drag and drop. I wish I can see that sometimes.

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Using Linestyle to Replace Wall Pattern

September 21, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

brick pattern

See image on the left. The pattern on the first image was created using ANSI32 pattern. Looks ugly. The ANSI32 pattern looks great for horizontal/vertical wall. But not so great for arched wall.

The pattern on second wall was created using linetype. Looks better, isn’t it?

How to do it? Simply add one more line, and change the linetype to your custom linetype.

Creating custom linetype is very easy. Simply do these following steps:

  1. Draw lines that will define your pattern. For replacing ANSI32, just create the first two. Remember that these lines must match your pattern size. You might need to create several linetype for different type of objects.
  2. Create shape from that lines. If you installed express tools, just use MKSHAPE. After you create it, insert the shape to your drawing.
  3. Create linetype. Like point no. 2, Express tools have a great tool to make it so easy: MKLTYPE.
  4. Test to see if the linetype has working correctly.

I don’t write many details in creating linetype here. But if you are interested to see more, I’ve written about it before here.

The other advantage of using this kind of linetype is, you can add it to your multiline style. I’ve written using dynamic block for walls, but you may like using multiline more. Wouldn’t that be great, using multiline and you can also have pattern with it?

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Isometric Dimension Arrow

September 19, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

isometric dimension arrow

I have posted a couple tutorial how to draw isometric drawing and dimensions. If you look at the dimension closer, there’s something not right. The dimension arrow is still use the default arrow, which is not isometric at all.

In this post, we will create a new dimension arrow to fixed this. You can use this technique to create your own dimension arrow later. But now, we just use it for isometric dimension.

First, you have to create a drawing, how you want your arrow look like. I create something like this. Make a dimension arrow pointing to right. You may want to use ellipse or something else. You can also use lines, arc, hatch pattern, etc. But let’s create something easy first.

Three things you can use as a guide when you draw it:

  1. Use angle about 30deg, because it is the default angle for isometric drawing in AutoCAD.
  2. Draw a dimension using existing arrow. Refer to the existing arrow for your arrow size.
  3. Now related to #2, check your dimension style. You have to create the dimension arrow as large as size 1. If you have your arrow size 100 in your dimension style, then resize your arrow you created to 1/100.

arrow

Create it as a block. Make sure your insertion point is at the arrow tip.

insertion point

Now open dimension style dialog box. Modify your isometric dimension style, in symbols and arrows tab, change your first and second arrow heads to user arrow. Then select your block.

arrowheads

Check your drawing now.

dimension result

Looks better. But there is something still not right. Take a look at dimension showing 700 value. It’s not supposed to look that way. How to fix that?

Well, there is no other way. You have to create another dimension style for it. Want to try it by yourself?

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Create Revit Levels using Array

September 16, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

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I have wrote about creating new levels in Revit. It’s fine if you only have several levels. But what if you have 20 levels? or may be 50 levels? Drawing each level will be ridiculous. Why not create new levels using array?

Open one of your elevation view. Select the top most level (by default it’s level 2). Your ribbon will open contextual tab: modify. Select array tool.

array

You may want to turn off the group and associate option. Then fill the number of levels you want to add, select move to 2nd (this will define floor to floor heights)

array settings

Click on your 2nd floor level on your drawing area, then move your pointer up. Type floor height you wanted then [enter].

I know a lot of you might already try this. But some are asking me: I saw the level in my drawing, but why can’t I see them on my project browser? It’s still showing Level 1 and Level 2.

Your levels is already defined. You can use them as reference, but Revit is not automatically create the plan views. I think this is a good smart choice by the programmer. If you have typical floor (I mean identical floor plans) from level 4 to 50, I don’t think you want all of them showing in project browser, right?

We have to define which floor plan views appear on project browser. Open view tab on your ribbon. Select plan views>floor plan.

new floor plan

This will open new plan dialog box. Select the levels you want to appear in your project browser. You can hold [shift] or [ctrl] then click for multiple selection.

select new plan

Click OK. There you go, you can see your plan views in your project browser!

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How to: Protecting Tool Palettes

September 16, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

Currently I and my colleague are trying to submit a project to develop a system. It means we are going to create their reusable contents, templates, drawing standards, and some customization tools. Then here comes a question: How we can protect the tool palettes?

I found this interesting post on AUGI, submitted by Lee Ambrosius of HyperPics. If you are intended to do the same, that’s a must read post.

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Autodesk Products Issue when Norton Installed

September 16, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

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I found two issues lately. My customer have problem with their AutoCAD 2008 after they install Norton 360. Lucky for him, Symantec provide a hotfix for this issue.

Later another customer have problem with their Inventor 2010. It was Norton Internet Security that cause this. This is an old issue, since Inventor 11. But it seems it’s not fixed yet. But the solution is not that difficult: uninstall and reinstall Norton.

In my curiosity, I tried to find other issue related to Norton applications. Well, it seems a lot of them cause issues with Autodesk products. You can try to search using keyword ‘norton’ in Autodesk knowledge base. Here is what I found.

I know some antivirus can be conflicted with Autodesk products, not only Norton. But seeing that result is kind of scare me.

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