I’ve gotten so many questions about how to learn Revit, what technology to buy, etc. lately and so I wanted to respond in what might initially sound like a surprising way…STOP!!! Don’t stop asking, and don’t stop pursuing, but stop and think and ask yourself a question: Why? Why am I learning Revit? Why am [...]
In recent weeks I’ve been told that I am idealistic and that I wear my ideals on my sleeve. My answer was that in my job, I had to be. But it made me start to think about how any big change happens. Usually, it’s a small group of people who, not only have a [...]
On June 12th of 2009, the United States government mandated that television stations nation-wide must broadcast exclusively in digital format. Did some people have difficulty with this transition (i.e. rural communities, the elderly, etc.)? Yes. Did the government make an effort to help with the transition (i.e. vouchers to be used towards a low-cost converter [...]
As I’ve stated before, BIM is a paradigm shift from the way we’ve worked before. That goes for whether you’re in the architecture, engineering or construction industry. We’re not swapping out one software application for another. I’m not even sure there’s a “one to one” swapping of 95% of the traditional (usually CAD) project process [...]
“BIM! BIM! BIM! I’ve heard about BIM, and I want to… What is BIM? I don’t want BIM, I want Revit. I don’t want Revit, I want BIM. OK, BIM, Revit, I get it now, how can I integrate into my…” I’ve heard this a lot and and what I have found, as someone who [...]
I decided to write this post for a certain family member of mine in the construction industry who needs to be able to talk about BIM/Revit, but doesn’t really need to know all the little in’s and out’s of it. So here’s my list: Understand the differences between BIM and Revit – What is BIM? [...]
Happy New Year all! The transition to Revit from (fill in the blank) continues throughout the industry and I wanted to comment on the need for an experienced person on every Revit-based project. I often mention to people that nowhere within the Revit help files does it mention the specifics of how to complete uniquely [...]
This is a quick post, but I had to mention it. I was just emailing someone in my GMail account and wanted to attach a file. In the email I wrote, “I’ve attached a file…” and I hit Send before I actually attached the file. The following message popped up: I just thought this was [...]
This past Thursday night was my last class at Pratt for a while and, ironically, the same exact last question as last year was asked: how can I use the mr Physical Sky as well as a custom background image at the same time. At the end of the last semester, I did some research [...]
I definitely plan on posting about 3ds Max 2011, but I get questions a lot to look at peoples MAX files and the first thing I usually tell them is to archive the file and send it to me. Archiving files in 3ds Max creates a zip file containing not only the MAX file, but [...]
