A local reseller in my area has broken down a comparison of some typical tasks in an easy to read chart…
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Hidden in the Help function in Revit Architecture 2008 is a tool that you may not have used before. It is great for beginners and veterans alike. New users will find the conceptual stuff a good foundation and seasoned users may find some nuggets of wisdom that they may not have been exposed to before.
Some of the topics are Flash demos and some are just links to an escorted tour through the help files.
To get the Design Phases Overview, you look in the Help folders under the Content Tab > Using the Revit Interface.
Once in the Design Phases Overview, you will see a Flash presentation that creates a wheel of topics. These topics include Essential Concepts, Pre-Design and Planning, Preliminary Design and so on…
Click on one of the wheel topics and you will be presented with sub-topics.
Once inside a subtopic, you will be presented with a slide show or links to help topics.
Check it out…
My wife, Karen, and I traveled just about as far away from home to the other side of the contiguous United States on vacation to the state of Maine.
We had plenty of good seafood and lobster. Cooked in little roadside “lobster pounds”. Fantastic tasting food, cooked fresh. Lobster Rolls, Lobster stew, Clam Chowder, Lobster Burritos and Lobster Quesadillas, Lobster Bisque and obviously fresh lobster – baked, boiled, and steamed.
We saw black and white ‘Oreo’ cows which are Belted Galloways, a rare breed of Scottish beef cattle. Kind of looks like an Oreo cookie – right?
This is one of the roadside shacks in one of the many port towns we toured. The colorful buoys hanging above the counter are for marking lobster traps.
And of course – we saw many white church steeples poking through the tree tops. This one is in Lexington, MA on the “commons” where the first shots were fired in the Revolutionary War.
And a lot of lighthouses – This one is Portland Head in Portland Maine
I am currently on vacation, driving up the coast of Maine. Being from southern California, I seldom get to see such rugged coastline. Lighthouses, fishing ports, beautiful houses and plenty of seafood. It will be great!
I just completed a very productive AUGI Board of Directors meeting in Waltham, MA, USA (Revit Central) where me and my fellow directors spent two and a half days discussing the future plans for AUGI. – what? you are not a member? – go join now!
Now I get to spend some much needed time away from it all.
I will most likely not be posting for the rest of the week (depending on the internet connectivity and my desire to even care about posting).
When I return, I hope to put up a few travel log images and talk about my time away.
See you soon!
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Did you know that you can add RSS feeds directly into AutoCAD 2008? It is next to the InfoCenter in the upper right of the tool bars – Communication Center (the little picture that looks like a satellite dish)
You can add the CADDManager blog to your list. Here is how…
Click on the InfoCenter icon down arrow (the little magnifying glass) and go to Settings. Then click on RSS Feed.
Click on the Add button and type in the following in the dialog box.
https://www.caddmanager.com/blog/sitefeeds/rss.xml
Once that is done, add the name of the feed and the number of posts you want to see, then save it. The next time you start the CommCenter you will see my posts.
Right there on the menu bar is a new tool. InfoCenter provides access to multiple sources of information.
You can enter keywords or a question for help, display the Communication Center panel for product updates and announcements, or display the Favorites panel to access saved topics.
I typed in LTSCALE and got the following information from multiple sources.
Click on one with a star on the right side to open the full text of the information.
Opening up the old mail bag to take a look at some questions from readers…
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Hi,
My company has heavily customized ADT2004, ALL the tool palettes, menus, toolbars, dimscale etc!
When we jump to Architecture 2008 this year we would like to install it right out of the box and just add our Cad Standards (layers, linetypes, font style, etc.), custom routines, and LayerStates.
How hard is this? I am not a programmer.
Michele
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Michele,
I think that the emerging flavor of running CAD is to use it as much as possible “Out of the Box” (OOTB). The heavily customized installations tend to be those that have a long history of customizing and have nurtured their tools along for many years. Some even run custom routines in place of the OOTB tools and have not moved to the OOTB commands because they have habits that will not die.
My advice is to run as much as you can OOTB and customize when you need to or when it really saves time. Another reason to customize is that there is a need for a fix to a consistent problem. Customizing the tools that support your standard and make it easier for users to comply.
When you customize you should not remove any of the OOTB commands or tools. You should separate your custom tools from the standard tools. Clearly mark the custom stuff so everyone knows whats what.
All in all, a blending of some custom and mostly standard tools is the best. New hires can come up to speed quickly and old hands can have some custom tools.
Creating custom menus and such is fairly easy once you understand the flow of creating them. It is different now with the CUI tools. Tool palettes are easy to make, menus are a little tougher. It is not impossible, but you will need to focus some time to the process.
Get some good solid information on customizing and have a go at it. You will learn quickly. Sign up for AUGI at www.augi.com and go to the link at http://www.augi.com/education/auhandouts.asp to get some good customization tips.
Good luck,
CADDManager
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