Category: Productivity

        Watching Brian Mackey’s video on Intelligent Details he mentioned using Journals for scripting. There is a AU talk on this at the link below: Revit Journal Files: They Aren’t Just for Autodesk Support There are alsdo a couple of downloadable files that go with the video just for reference. This seems like agood way to

        In projects you create a lot of drawings. Some of them in a specific format, eg 100 series plans, 200 series elevations ….. There are also drawing packages, like a tender set for a specific package such as furniture that you want to send out at a different time to different people. Being able to

        Generally with notes I like all the information to be on the drawing that you are reading, so keynotes should have legends associated with that sheet. You shouldn’t be scrabbling through a set of drawings to find the keynote legend. Drawings should be stand alone. Also, I like notes to explain 1/ What something is,

        I go to tech meetup talks around town. One i went to recently as about RPA (Robotic Process Automation). In the talk a few vendors were demonstration their services/programmes and showing Bank/Enterprise processes that included Chat Bots and other automated processes. They talked, on the one han about efficiency, and also about customer enguagement &

        I am not a touch typer, so look at the keyboard when I type. Sometimes I’ve hit the caps lock key and suddenly half of what I’ve written is in upper case GRRRR! Smart Caps Lock I found a small free app called SMART CAPS LOCK that sits in the toolbar tray that allows you

        I’d played with this before and just saw it as dark magic. I couldn’t really get my head around it. I remember trying to set one up and making a total mess of it, so I left it. Yesterday I went to an Azure All day presentation on Cognative services, hopefully I’ll try one of

        In my constant search for ways to automate trivial processes and make life easier I came across DropIt. A free flexible tool to automate processing & organizing files and folders On the above site it shows this flow. Basically you make a rule with actions on a file type/filter and it will do those actions.

        There are times when you need a little tool to do something. You could download a programme to do it, or you could use an online tool. Mostly though, you only need the tools at infrequent intervals , or you have a specific project that requires some minor tools. I’m a fan of free online

        I haven’t played much with C# and revit add-ins for a while and I thought it would be good to re-explore the process. The last time I was trying to do so was about 3 years ago so I thought I’d look on Mr YouTube to see what has appeared since my last effort. It

        I have been working n a project with a number of buildings. To begin with I had them all in one model, but as the scheme developed the buildings became a bit more complex, the forms settled down, and I decided to split them into seperate files to manage them better. Revit shared coordinates I’d