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Practical guides, cheat sheets, and release news for AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, and the wider Autodesk ecosystem — written by the CAD Masters team.
If you have tried rendering in Revit, you may find that the materials have colors that look faded or washed out when rendering. This is because Revit does not apply any gamma…
January 7, 2013 · 1 min read
I recently upgraded to Office 2010 64-bit on a Windows 7 64-bit workstation. From our experience, many Revit users are running a 64-bit version of Revit with an older version of…
March 16, 2012 · 1 min read
In Revit, there are many different methods available to create dimensions. It's fairly easy to create dimensions from the temporary dimensions (Activate Dimensions), and if you're…
August 25, 2011 · 1 min read
Revit 2011 introduced the modeless properties palette that allows us to change the properties of selected elements while in the model. This made it much easier to change the…
August 10, 2011 · 1 min read
Lately I was working on a conceptual building design. I wanted to create an arched glass roof with a non-uniform shape. I planned to use a curtain system on an in-place mass. Every…
July 19, 2011 · 2 min read
Project Neon allows you to use Autodesk's servers to render your Revit models. However, Web Update 1 for Revit broke Project Neon. There is now an update to the add-in so that it…
July 1, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk Labs recently released an eTransmit plug-in for Revit 2012. Similar to the AutoCAD ETRANSMIT command, it will group all of the files for a Revit project so that they can…
June 30, 2011 · 1 min read
One of the problems you might run into when creating an exterior render in Revit is the ground plane. When rendering, you will probably want to turn it off or cover it up. What I…
June 3, 2011 · 1 min read
Revit Architecture 2012 Worksharing - Worksharing has greatly improved in Revit 2012. You can now graphically identify many aspects of elements, such as the ownership status…
March 23, 2011 · 2 min read
Personally, I find some aspects of Revit very intuitive and easy to learn, such as placing walls, windows, and doors. Revit becomes more difficult when there are many different…
February 18, 2011 · 3 min read
With Revit, you’ll sometimes be dealing with large file sizes over the wide area network (WAN), typically occurring when using a VPN. This is not much of an issue when you’re in a…
February 1, 2011 · 3 min read
In order to master the Ribbon interface in Revit, it will require daily use. To help you memorize the locations of various buttons, I’ve posted screenshots of the Ribbon. You’ll…
November 12, 2010 · 1 min read
It’s becoming increasingly important that Architects not only design beautiful buildings, but also present those buildings in increasingly lifelike quality. Thanks to advances in…
October 29, 2010 · 1 min read
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