My First Post
So, I have been thinking a long time about starting a blog. I have been debating on whether or not I have the time to stay active with it and what it should be called, but I think that after Autodesk...
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Grouping Headers in a Schedule
When working in any Revit Platform you can find a lot of your wish list items by keeping your eye on the Options Bar. Even after using the software for a while now, I find new things that show up that...
View ArticleWatch Your Active Workset
Today a user was having an issue with regards to a beam not showing up in a plan view. Once the beam was placed, you could access the properties of it while it was still selected and see that the beam...
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Redefine your Collaboration Workflow
I recently had an article I wrote published in AUGI World magazine which has now went Green and is only available in digital format. I encourage you to read all of the articles in the magazine. It can...
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Level display in the Graphical Column Schedule
Gosh... how did this one slip by me. Not for sure if it was in the initial 2009 version or one of the web updates. I guess it pays to read the new features list closely. This was one of those items...
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New Filter Categories added in 2010
I believe that it was in Revit Structure 2009 that the "Level" category was added to the filters tool when creating a "Define Criteria" filter. We used this to auto hide those additional levels that we...
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Inconsistent naming for the Paste Aligned tools
I noticed the other day that the Paste Aligned drop-down in Revit Structure has a case of " I don't know what I want to be called". Should I be called"Select Levels" or "Select Levels by Name" or...
View ArticleRevit Worksharing on Wide Area Networks
We have been using this solution (GlobalSCAPE WAFS) to work between our remote office for a while now with our non-Revit files and it has been working great. I just received word today that their...
View ArticleYes, I am still here...
It has been a while since I have posted and I still don't have a lot of time to sit down and write something worth while, so I thought I would at least post to let you know what has been going on....
View ArticleStarting a Project Advice - My Two Cents
I am re-posting this here because I think that it is great advice which as structural engineers, we are not always included in on the decision process. One of those topics that should be discussed each...
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Framing Moment Symbol - Did you know?
I found out something interesting today about the "Connection-Moment-Filled" symbol that is used to show a symbolic Moment Connection type at the Start and End of framing members when set to a course...
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Article 5
Redline Coordination Schedule (from a Structural Guy)Another one of my articles (along with several others that are of great reading) have been published in the January/February 2010 issue of AUGIWorld...
View ArticleOn my way to AU2010!!
Wow, I hate to even write a post, it has been almost a year since my last posting. I can hardly call myself a blogger, but I have to keeping trying whenever I get the time to put something in writing....
View ArticleWhere Does The Time Go...
As I write this I think to myself where did I ever have time to write a book, let alone an update to it. My last post to this blog said that I was heading to AU 2010 and this was the year I was going...
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Why does Revit Structure Suck?
Well, actually it is not "Why does Revit Structure Suck?", rather "Why does Revit Structure Suck for those who use it?Well, I will tell you. WE (at least for us) DON'T DICTATE WHAT VERSION WE WORK IN,...
View ArticleLet AU2011 Begin !!
Well, I am here, excited for another year at AU. Hoping to catch up with those I haven't seen since last year, meet new people, and learn about what's going on out in the industry as well as what's to...
View ArticleLet's Try this Again
Okay, AU2012 is just around the corner which means I try to kick start my blog back up. Hopefully one of these years it sticks and I stay consistant with posting. I certainly have plenty of stuff to...
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