Hollow Core Slabs modeled as beams

Ever had difficulties with joining and cut back of hollow core slabs modeled as beams? I read through a couple of forum- and blog posts today, and decided to try out the family template Metric Structural Framing - Complex and Trusses.rft. instead of the classic Metric Structural Framing - Beams and Braces.rft. And it works great! Read the posts and try it out: http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=107767 http://bimandbeam.typepad.com/bim_beam/2009/07/framing-templatehow-to-disable-auto-setback.html http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=66779

The Building Coder

Because my colleague Håvard Dagsvik has asked a super-smart question to Mr. Jeremy Tammik, creator of the blog The Building Coder, I'm forced to write a post about it. The blog seems to be dedicated to making add.ins in Revit, and I suppose you can pick up hints and tips about development there. Mr. Tammik works for Autodesk and according to legend speaks Swedish.

Oh, the link.

Shift+Arrows for Move

During a recent webinar I came to mention my newly favoured way of moving rebar symbols and tags, by using the keyboard arrow keys. I said to my dear listeners that the keyboard arrow move is zoom sensitive, that is the move distance for each key press increases when you zoom out.

After the webinar a colleague told me that you can hold Shift while pressing the arrow keys, and thus increase the move distance.

I've been using Revit for three years know. How embarrassing.

3dsmax-models in Revit

A very good friend sent this link to me yesterday. According to David Light a new Connection Extension for 3dsmax 2010 and 3dsmax Design 2010 subscription customers now enables the user to export models to SAT, a format both Revit and Inventor imports. Download it from subscription.autodesk.com. Thanks Tanja!