Autodesk 2012 Software Releases

Hoera! It's time of the year that the new Autodesk 2012 products are launched. I was able to take a sneak preview of the new products thru a live public webcast held last Monday, 21st of March hosted by Amar Hanspal, Senior Vice President of Autodesk. The products are very promising and I am sure you will agree.

Getting excited about it? See it for yourself.

The Autodesk 2012 products are here! Check them all out!

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=16353133&siteID=123112

I will be backed once I get my fingers on it and I'm hoping to have some more information to share with you. It's going to be very exciting year for Revit users. Thanks for dropping by.

Concrete Panel

How would you like to model your concrete panels for your project? This is often a question found elsewhere. You need it to be a wall. For a rough representation, use wall reveals for showing panel joints. However, it might cause a headache when wanting the panels as separate pieces.

For performance issues, I would not recommend using in-place families. There's a lot of overhead to the model in terms of size.

Lastly, I will still advocate using a column family to represent concrete panels if there is a need for shop drawings. You are more flexible in using it, like placing it on a slanted position, do the shape whatever you want. Any other suggestions out there?

Simplified Export to DWF

There are times that your project needs various paper sizes for sheet hardcopy. It is sometimes very annoying when you have to choose a print setting to use.

To simplify this procedure, I advise you to use the following “Print Setup” as shown below when to need to do a DWF Export with various paper sizes.

You simply choose from the drop box Name: <in-session> and for the Paper Size: <Use Sheet Size>. Once you have done with these settings, you will be able to export to “dwf” using any paper size. You do not need to open this Print Setup dialog box to set the print to A0, A1 or whatever you need for your hardcopy.

Let this tip work for you from now on.

Floor Spot Elevation Problem

This seems to be a common problem when you issue Annotate>Spot Elevation and the top face of the floor you want to annotate cannot be detected and a symbol shows up, like a screw head. The Spot Elevation can only locate the edge of the floor as shown below and not somewhere on the floor surface.

If your Visual Style is set to “Wireframe”, Revit cannot locate the floor top face and that is why a screw head symbol shows up. To fix it, always set your Visual Style to “Hidden” and not to “Wireframe” in order that you will get your Spot Elevation Annotation correctly on the middle of the floor.