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Revit and Multi-Language Documents
Its been much too long since ive written. Its been an eventful year since i wrote last! I went through all of the implementation and content standards at a new job in NYS, right after which point.... I...
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Mobilizing an office, and Distributing Information...
I often wonder... How does everyone filling the role as BIM Manager for many people manage to distribute information about all of the changes made, to all of the users that use them? Template updates,...
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The Office Library (part 2)
As i mentioned last week, much of what we did on the Wiki is now Superseded by a new content Navigator we got from a third party developer. What we purchased: the KiwiCodes Family Browser (clicky).This...
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Posts from AUGI- Creating a Standard: Doors
I am delinquent in getting this post... posted, but it has been an insanely busy time! A discussion was started on AUGI about custom content, and after a somewhat heated debate was had over the...
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Beck Family Browser Update, and more Content....
A few months have gone since the last post, and certainly (if for no other reason than to further the AU Unconference conversation) i meant to post a bunch of content for Revit and discussion. But i...
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Familiy Browser 3.7- Reviewing the new Features...
This is a Repost, for anyone who frequents http://www.revitforum.org/, but i found it beneficial enough while working on Content at Beck that i thought i would post it here, even if it seems superflous...
View ArticleAn Interesting issue in the Filter Dialogue...
We use Filters a great deal in our office, and in our Template. More and more, with being able to use the data from the objects themselves, i find they work a lot better than using the all-encompassing...
View ArticleCreating a Revit Template
This will be a repost from something i typed up for a user at RevitForum.org, but since i am always making reference to our Revit Template, some people have been asking what i *consider essential* to a...
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Revit Architecture 2015?
Some nights im thankful im not faster than i am... Many from Blogger Night have already done a fantastic job posting on the up and coming features, so i wont dare try to accomplish a similar task, as...
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Revit for Site, Utilities, Coordination, Field Layout... and Fab?
Sometimes i feel remiss about my Revit blog, like: When i look at it and realize i havent posted since 2012 came out! Well, its not for lack of interest, to be sure. We've been pretty busy at The Beck...
View ArticleORUG Presentation- Revit for Site, and Fabrication
So, another thanks to Jay Polding and the SolidCAD folks for letting me travel to talk about what weve been up to, at their local Revit Users Group. We recorded it via GoToMeeting, but unfortunately...
View ArticleORUG Presentation- Take 2!
Well... Ive tried to get it embedded in the blog 4 times now: Screen cast, Youtube, embedded on Blogspot, and now with Silverlight through my personal domain... Which *says* its working fine, but it...
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AU2011- Its that time again!
You know, for the first time in a long time (lie)- I have more topics to cover than i do time to cover them. I consider myself very fortunate to work at Beck, where ive had the opportunity recently to...
View ArticleThis is NOT a Trick Question.
Ive been remiss, as i have a few posts "sitting in the queue" waiting to write, but ive been crazy busy this month, with little downtime to write. Im having to write a brief piece for work, and it...
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What is your role as an Architect? (How i spent my week in the CME)
If youre on my Facebook page or Google+ or Twitter, youve seen these images already. However, this week and last i got to engage one of our Project Teams, and help them kick off their Revit Model....
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Class Materials- Autodesk TA event- Dallas
How has it been so long since i wrote here last? Certainly, things are way too busy right now. In any event, it so happened that an Autodesk Reseller Training event was happening up the street from...
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#RTCUSA / #RTCNA (Revit Tech Conference 2012)
Most of us have made it back home by now, after attending the Revit Technology Conference North America, in Stone Mountain Georgia. Compared to other conferences i attend, what i enjoy the most about...
View ArticleThe #Mallerisms, as heard at #RTCUSA / #RTCNA
(Long post, no pictures) While attending RTC North America, i had the privilege of teaching a couple of classes. Its always an honor to have anyone want to listen to whatever i have to say....
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The 2013 Deployment (Debacle?) Process
The Malleristic blog has gone unattended for quite some time, as this has been about the busiest year so far in my career. I suppose that’s good and bad at the same time. In the midst of that, two...
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Malleristic BIM travels
It always amazes me when i look back at the blog and realize three (or five) months have gone by since ive had a chance to update it.... But thats how the last few months have been. Since the last...
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The Elusive Origin aka The Original Origin aka Not the Current Origin
I must admit: It has been a few years since i ran up against this problem, even though i was reminded of it while explaining to someone interally why there are THREE origins in Revit: Shared,...
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"The Helen of Geometry"
... Otherwise known as the Cycloid. Not gonna lie, i had never even heard of the mathematical description before, and the reading on these fine shapes is absolutely astonishing. But i digress. Last...
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Revit Technology Conference 2013- Australasia
My "Calender Sunday" is on its 34th hour, having just crossed the International Date Line on my way back to Dallas following the Revit Technology Conference Australasia, at The Langham Hotel in...
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What can i say that hasn't been said already?
Well its been a LONG time since ive felt like writing. About Revit, about BIM, about the community of people that we all work in and with, and all that it entails. Its actually been over a year since...
View ArticleWhoopsie...
Evidently a few of the links (most notably the God Is In The Data materials) werent working, as i had typed them in with their FTP addresses, and not the download addresses. They should be fixed now....
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