Websites & Blogs I Read

If you search the web you will find loads of sites to give you information about all the Autodesk products. The main one's I read and follow are as follows:

CADline Community

www.cadlinecommunity.co.uk

It's a free technical website on all Autodesk products run by Autodesk professionals, to provide tips & tricks, useful information about all things Autodesk.

Autodesk Labs

labs.autodesk.com

Autodesk Labs, part of the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), is home to innovative new technologies and collaborative development. Its mission is to involve you, the customer, in the progress of design technology solutions. We’re not a beta program (although Autodesk does have an active beta community), or a usability team, because the technology we work with is too new to be a product. The user feedback that you provide to Labs is really on product ideas, while they’re still in an early conceptual stage.

Autodesk Discussion Group

forums.autodesk.com

Autodesks own forums site, were you can interact with other Autodesk profressionals.

AUGI

www.augi.com

Probably the largest forum outside the Autodesk Discussion Group but also to get loads of information on Autodesk porducts

Autodesk University

au.autodesk.com

If you are lucky enough to go then you can gain access to all the great lessons you attended but if you couldn't go you can still download and watch the lessons from Autodesk University website.

BIM Show Live 2013

The BIM Show Live 2013 has been announced:

30th April & 1st May 2013

at

Park Plaza, Westminster, London.

www.bimshowlive.co.uk

This will be third one and they are seeking proposals from individuals interested in speaking at this year’s Show. If your interested in submitting a proposal click the following link:

BIM SHOW LIVE 2013: CALL FOR PROPOSALS

BIM in Transportation Symposium

Have you registered for the BIM in Transportation Symposium on 25th February at the Renaissance London Heathrow Hotel. Hosted by Savoy Computing and CADline.

To find out more please click on the following link: BIM in Transportation

To download a copy of the agenda please click here: Agenda

Revit-Reinforcement Render

I have been looking Reinforcement in Revit and how its exported to AutoCAD Structural Detailing.  

I will be write something about Revit's interaction with AutoCAD Structural Detailing soon and post a blog about, so look out for it.

In the mean time I have put a little render I created showing the reinforcement in a trench inside my test model. 

Placing A Recess in a Slab in Revit

Every had the problem you wanted to create a recess in a slab within Revit just like in the below image.

You would think you can just edit the slab profile and simply just add a void into the slab where you need it, then define a depth you require. Well you can it just added a hole straight through the slab.

Another option is to draw a shaft and adjust the depth so only part of the shaft goes through the slab. Yet again it cuts all the way through the slab creating a opening through the slab.

The solution is to create a Void Family and load it and place it onto the floor to create your recess. If you want to know how to do this then please take a look at the following link:

Slab Recess Family (Revit)

You can download a free white paper on how to create a Void family to create the recess in a slab.