Customized Revit Families - Revit Content

Although I haven't downloaded this content, it looks to be fairly good quality if it all works as advertised. Although for some items they are overmodelling which may potentially cause issues on larger projects with the amount of detail that is being shown. One would hope they have set the models correctly with coarse, medium and fine displays and that the individual family sizes don't exceed 1MB each.

See for yourself.


We create your customized Revit Families - Welcome to Revit Content

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First, we welcome Sondra Jovel to our team; she joins us from Imaginary Forces and will serve as our General Market rep in charge of bringing some Cortez Brothers-style goodness to the world at large.

Second, awards season is upon us and congratulations are in order for some of our favorite directors. Simón Bross and our sister production company in Mexico City utterly swept the floor clean at Argentina's FIAPs. They won the most awards of any single company at the competition, with a Gold, a Silver AND a Bronze for Best Directing of Actors, Silvers in Directing, Photography and Editing and Bronzes in Editing and Original Music. Across the pond in Cannes, Doble Nelson grabbed a Gold for a series of promos done for... Well, honestly, just watch one of the spots and you'll get the gist of it.

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Conceptual Mass - Defining Area to control width & length automatically

In this quick tutorial I've taken a request from Ry on linkedin to produce a rectangular mass family where you can set the area, then use grips to change the length and width whilst still maintaining the required area.

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We’re busy, busy, busy shooting, shooting and shooting right now... The Cortez Brothers managed to survive Swine Flu ’09 by shifting our shoots out of Mexico and into other countries and cities, including our beloved home base of Los Angeles. We’ve shot projects for AT&T, AARP, Wal-Mart, Bud Light, Wendy’s and a few other notable brands. Also, accolades this month for a couple of our directors, most particularly Nelson Cabrera for being a finalist at the One Show for his MTV campaign (check out the video link below for a peek). Ted Melfi’s film “The Beneficiary” has been accepted into its 25th film festival, the latest one being the Independent Features Web Competition... Oh, and the Storytelling Department recently realized we’ve now helped pitch/and or land creative feature film marketing campaigns at Disney, Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount and Warner Brothers.

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Conceptual Mass (2010) - Octagon Panels & Mitring

This is just a simple little tutorial that talks about how to get your edges to cleanup without a gap for both sides of your panel. I hope someone finds it useful.

Due to some issues with Blogger this took a while to get online...

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Revit Elevation/Section View Depth Clipping workaround

Hello readers,

This is another one of those workarounds that I've been doing for a while and wasn't aware that a lot of people didn't know of it. Its a very quick method to creating depth in your elevations/sections without adding masses, using the linework tool, or utilising shadows. (although in Revit 2010, with directx turned on printing of views with shadows has improved exponentially!).



This is my first attempt at uploading a video so please let me know if people have any difficulties viewing. It has been encoded using the Techsmith codec. TSCC in AVI format.

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Autodesk release 2010 Product Line Up

Autodesk today started shipping there 2010 product lineup.

http://store.autodesk.com/store/adsk/DisplayHomePage

Revit 2010 introduces:

New User Interface (ribbon) - which from my experience is a better implementation than most other platforms that have implemented the ribbon.

Conceptual Modelling tools - A complete redesign for the conceptual design modelling tools enabling nearly any form to now be modelled directly in Revit. You are no longer confined by blend, extrusion, sweep, revolve and swept blend. Instead simply draw the various components that would make the shape, select them and then hit create form/void... You still need to be aware of intersecting geometry as this will result in the "unable to create..." error that is typical in Revit. Furthermore with this tool you can apply complex patterns to them based on a UV breakup of the surface. And the very cool feature is this can all be controlled via the API to generate some amazing mathematically driven patterns for surfaces. Checkout Guy's blog for some examples shortly.

Performance Enhancements - 2010 ditches Open Gl for Direct 3D as well as being native x86/x64 with some minor multi-threading tasks now implemented (no longer two separate installs). Graphically 3D navigation is much faster that 2010 and should be a welcome addition for most offices. Also, anti-aliasing of 3D views means linework is going to be much smoother rather than stepped as well as being able to turn on gradient backgrounds for a little more effect to your perspective and orthogonal views.

Minor Drafting Tool inclusions - You can now control the underlay linetype on a system wide setting as well as halftones. Also a new tool called Spot Slope which can indicate the slope of a surface that its placed on (similar to a spot co-ordinate or spot elevation). Unfortunately it doesn't work with Ramps as they still require fixing... Be careful when tagging roof pitches in elevations to use your tab key as you may inadvertently tag the ridge line instead of the true perpendicular fall meaning you'll get a different value than expected.

Interoperability - Bi-directional communication with Civil 3D via the adsk format, the ability to import adsk files from Inventor for family creation (things like connectors are transferred as well as all the product information) - hopefully this will assist with some accurate content becoming available soon. Exporting to gbXML has also been improved with a full graphical review of the export and analysis now available prior to export to iron out any issues before hand.

Let downs:

• There are most likely going to be a number of bugs in the initial release so it may be worth waiting for WU1.
• No notable bug fixes.
• Not many drafting tool enhancements and no text enhancements.
• Great release for those doing landmark buildings, others may find the release light on features...

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