Director Fernando Arrioja recently worked on "Cold Practice," a CG-intensive spot for Coors Lights via ad agency Bromley. This involved shooting in the snowy conditions of the Rockies, as well as working with Mexico's soccer greats against greenscreen and recreating snow with salt in a studio in Mexico City. http://bit.ly/ubl...

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We're excited to welcome the Clyde Brothers & Esteban Sapir to our directorial roster! They all bring amazing vision and energy to our team. Please take a look at their recent work.Clyde Brothers: http://bit.ly/vdfGzFEsteban Sapir: http://bit.ly/w4JhNL...

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Truly scrumptious! Our very own TV cooking superstar, Patricia Jinich of "Pati's Mexican Table," shares her secrets to adding Mexican flavor to your holiday dessert table on the "Today Show": http://on.today.com/vRT...

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Xrev - Trial Survey Competition Results

Results of a recently conducted survey on the Revit Add-in Xrev Transmit - designed for issuing Revit sheets to PDF, DWG, DWF etc with automatic naming and filing, including a drawing register/transmittal.Survey ResultsWhat people are saying:"We have users who want to marry you they are so happy with the time savings""Excellent product - I couldn't...

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Easily changing building levels

I'm always amazed when people don't know about this very easy process of changing a building's Levels to reflect the actual RL's of the site.All to often people tell me how they...

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But my structural slab isn't flat!

Set downs in structural slabs or falls to slabs can be tricky to achieve.  Below are some of the methods I used to make things simpler:The first question you need to ask...

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Revit 2012 - AS1428.1-2009 Door Circulation Checker

Hi Everyone,Sorry I still haven't posted the video and datasets from RTC2011, I will do it when I get a spare few hours, need the incentive to sit down and record it all!In the...

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RTC USA - Conference Materials

As some of you may know myself and many other Reviteers are currently attending and speaking at the Revit Technology Conference in Huntington Beach, California.For those attending the sessions I will post links to the course materials, including presentation and datasets when I return to Australia.  These materials will also be available...

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Australia and New Zealand Revit Standards Released (ANZRS)

Want to make top quality content.  The first step would be to download the extensive document pack from ANZRS!  This has been 2 years in the making after being raised at the Revit Technology Conference.http://anzrs.wordpress.c...

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Revit 2012 Viewer Mode

Did you know that in the Revit 2012 suite there is now a special "Viewer" mode.  I only discovered this the other day.Finally a reliable, built in method (without having to rely on demo modes) to enable the Principals, Engineers, or Revit Illiterate Architects access to a Revit model that they can't destroy.With the viewer it allows all standard...

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Revit 2012 & Nested Structural Columns Workarounds

If you've ever tried to nest structural columns or structural framing members and made them shared so you can tag the members independently of the host family, then there is a good chance you've come across this issue.  That is the column height or beam length defaults to its original size and ignores its constraints set by the host family.  Find...

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Revit Technology Conference USA & Australia - June / May

For those of you that I interested I'll be running 3 classes at the above events.Architectural Advanced Families (LAB)Structural Advanced Families (LAB)One Model (Revit Server, Worksharing API, Bluestreak, Security - Is it possible yet?)I was really hoping to have the content of the Labs be directly based from the attendees requests.  However,...

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Happy April 1st to our crew, friends and fans. As spring begins, we start with news that The Cortez Brothers has finally (finally!) secured rights to launch the much-beloved television series "¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.?" as a musical. The show, America's first bilingual sitcom, was produced by and aired on PBS in the late 1970s.The Cortez Brothers' production,...

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The Cortez Brothers just moved offices this month, taking over a larger space down the street at 13445 Beach Avenue in sunny Marina del Rey. Ping-pong aficionados are cordially...

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