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-K-
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
STC is the way of the dinosaur
In response to Steve Staffords Blog post:
STC is no more. Now it's SWC. To me this is harder to say and awkward. I think I may just stick with saying "sync" from now but am saddened by the loss of the revit language. STC was one of those phrases that you knew you were part of an exclusive club being a "reviteer". Say the password and you get to join our club. Oh well. Autodesk obviously thought it was confusing to users. "Syncronizing" is more appropriate to what you are actually doing.
-K-
STC is no more. Now it's SWC. To me this is harder to say and awkward. I think I may just stick with saying "sync" from now but am saddened by the loss of the revit language. STC was one of those phrases that you knew you were part of an exclusive club being a "reviteer". Say the password and you get to join our club. Oh well. Autodesk obviously thought it was confusing to users. "Syncronizing" is more appropriate to what you are actually doing.
-K-
Friday, April 24, 2009
Electrical Families 2009 vs. 2010 Comparison
Recently I've been working on a project that required a ton of electrical families. Now before all the engineers out there have a fit, We're doing an interior fit out where we are showing the locations of all the power devices. The MEP engineers are not in Revit so we're have to do this coordinating ourselves.
Because of this I was called upon to create a ton of electrical content for us poor architects and interior designers to use in 2009 mind you. So I open new electrical family and go to town. Only to find out my annotation family I have loaded in doesn't maintain it's orientation. So I go to the "Category and Parameters" to see what I can find:
...... Nothing Useful ......
MEP has this option why don't I?
So with getting 2010 "officially" installed (aka not beta anymore) I figured I'd check out what I get in that.
I can see it .... but I can't check it.
Seriously, what the use is that going to do me? I would rather you had left it not visible at all. That way I could live in ignorant bliss.
The one good thing that has now been added is that I can place MEP connectors in Arch. This option is now available when you create a new electrical family.
While this is useful, I'd also like to be able to maintain the orientation of my annotations. Oh, Revit. Why do you tease me so?
-K-
Because of this I was called upon to create a ton of electrical content for us poor architects and interior designers to use in 2009 mind you. So I open new electrical family and go to town. Only to find out my annotation family I have loaded in doesn't maintain it's orientation. So I go to the "Category and Parameters" to see what I can find:
...... Nothing Useful ......
MEP has this option why don't I?
So with getting 2010 "officially" installed (aka not beta anymore) I figured I'd check out what I get in that.
I can see it .... but I can't check it.
Seriously, what the use is that going to do me? I would rather you had left it not visible at all. That way I could live in ignorant bliss.
The one good thing that has now been added is that I can place MEP connectors in Arch. This option is now available when you create a new electrical family.
While this is useful, I'd also like to be able to maintain the orientation of my annotations. Oh, Revit. Why do you tease me so?
-K-
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