Architecture, IT, CAD, for a well know Architecture Practice making top buildings. We use Microstation, Revit, all the usual Adobe Products, PCs (not Macs although we would quite like to change back), 2.5 offices, and a great working environment.
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Revit - Editing Grid Head Size to work nicely at all scales
Monday, 7 June 2010
Railings in Revit
Drawing a Panel from scratch using the panel template. If one creates an extrusion in the left or right hand view clicking to the four corners of the reference planes like this creates a panel 600mm wide.
Now at last here is the top tip for using the ballusters. Make sure you have half the panel width in the Dist. from previous if you do not want a gap between each panel or balluster. This is because the setout position is the centre of the panel. Therefore the Distance from Previous is actually the distance of the start of the next panel from the centre (setout line) of the previous panel.
Here are some useful descriptions of the railing settings:
At the bottom under the setction titled POSTS the Start Post has a setting called SPACE. This setting is the amount that the start post (or panel is offset to the right of the start of the ballustrade. The amount in from the end of the ballustrade.
Friday, 4 June 2010
Revit Stairs Interesting fact about risers
If you want to change the maximum riser height later, you will need to duplicate the stair type. If you try to change the maximum riser height of the existing stair, nothing will happen. Beware.
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Adding the 3GB switch to the startup .ini to give Revit the chance of more RAM
In lay terms, Windows usually allocates 2 gigs of RAM to programs and 2 gigs to the system. With the switch it changes it to 3GB for programs and 1GB for other things.
This is how you do it.
a) Access the boot.ini file by opening the System Properties dialog on "My Computer". Under the Advanced tab and Startup and Recovery press Settings. In the startup and recovery dialog press the edit button. This should open a text file with something close to the following content:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin
b) Were are going to modify it and make a failsafe so that if the mod doesn't work we can go back to the original setting:
Copy the last line and add /3GB to the end of it (make sure you spell it right). Between the parentheses type 3GB at the end so you'll be able to recognize it when XP restarts. Also if you don't have noexecute=optin add that too. The whole thing will look like this
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 3GB" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin /3GB