Auburn - 2010 BCS National Champions

A Special Season - Congrats Tigers!

Autodesk University - Online Class List

Autodesk University - Online Class List 2010 for Revit Structure

Auburn Wins the Iron Bowl

28 - 27

"The Knockout"

• Down 24-0 with 5 mins left in the 2nd Quarter
• Largest blown lead in Crimson Tide football history
• Snaps 20 game home winning streak
• Snaps 2 game winning streak

Auburn finishes the regular season 12-0 SEC WEST CHAMPS and NATIONAL CHAMPS 

REVISIONS in REVIT

Seem like they work pretty well.  Looks to definitely make things easier and more automated.  BOOM FREE MONEY!  This is pretty basic and was fairly easy to pick up.  This is the method I will do rev clouds now.  Pain in the Ass workaround free experience.

Here's what I've figured out so far.

It's in a weird location.  MANAGE tab, then ADDITIONAL SETTINGS panel, then (Sheet Issues/Revisions) on the toolbar.  From there you add revisions, change information for each revision, and several options which I haven't used yet or maybe ever, but thier options none the less and the more the flexibility, the better.  OK

And now it's time to add the revision cloud under the ANNOTATE ribbon, REVISION CLOUD, then in the properties box choose your revision # and draw you cloud.

Now ANNOTATE ribbon, TAG BY CATEGORY, pick the revision cloud, now you have the rev #  symbol with the correct.  There are some options of how the tag is displayed on the Properties bar below the Ribbon.  Cool, moving on nicely.

This should be all of the necessary information and steps to get the revision Information into the drawing.  Now, we have to modify the title block file so that the revisions are shown correctly.

OPEN FILE--(family)--(titleblocks)--(whatever file you choose). In the title block file go to VIEW panel and you will see the REVISION SCHEDULE button.  This appears to be a button exclusively for title block files, cool but buried kinda deep.

Now we're in a psuedo-schedule-parameter box.  Under FIELDS, add whatever columns you need I use Number and Date, but whatever you need here. From there you have the FORMATTTING, SORTING/GROUPING, & APPEARANCE tabs, which work just like any other schedule.

Then you drag and drop just like any other schedule.  Seems to work well.  Two Thumbs Up Autodesk.  We'll leave on a high note....or a low note??

Schedule located manually in TB

Online Wind Speed Reference ASCE 7-10

Scheduled to be launched in November by the ATC.  Thank you!
ATC ASCE 7-10 Wind Speed

P.S. Not up yet as of Nov 2

Update: Still not up 1/6/11.  Gonna check and see whats up

Update:  BOOM it's there.  Free Money folks.  Really nice, although I think look up by zipcode would be a nice option, that is hardly grounds to complain.  The ability to search the map is better anyway.  Excellent Job! Thank you ATC

Changing the Project Elevation - The easy way

There have been several times I needed to change my elevations during the project to represent the "real" elevations such as (+) 100'-0" baseline instead of 0'-0".  100 works ok, but if you are using 569.32, instead of 0'-0" you're just asking for a headache.  I know you gotta do it sometimes, but if that's the case use both numbers.  Ok rant over.  Two rants in two days.  Guess you can tell what kind of week it's been and it's only Tuesday.

So here's the tip:

1) Open a (elevation view) any view is ok.
2) Go to (manage) ribbon and click the COORDINATES button

 

3) click the SPECIFY COORDINATES AT POINT button
4) pick your point you want to designate a certain elevation (or coordinate point)
5) Assign it a SHARED elevation (or coordinate point) and the model moves globally, which is important because you levels or anything in your model actually moves, just a reference number.

5) Specify a coordinate of elevation

6)  Then you will use the SPOT ELEVATION command to show the elevation of an element.  This will be based off of elevation 0'-0"; i.e. your second floor would read (+) 13'-0"
7) Select the spot elevation you just entered and click EDIT TYPE (ET is a shortcut I will use) and duplicate the spot elevation tag.  Name it Target (Shared) to fit in with the rest of the types.
8)Under the properties toward the bottom you will see ELEVATION ORIGIN you will have 3 options: shared, project, and relative  (dont know what relative is yet).  Choose shared and BOOM all your elevation tags using this type are now based off of your "real" elevations.  Nice.

               Works cause my FF is def not 113' AFF!

Footing Host

Im quite irratated at the moment.  In my project, I have put in my foundation walls, my columns, my floor slabs and my wall foundations.  I am needing to add a "pier" to my column to get the spread footing to the right elevation.  Well, Revit, you are supposed to let me add the concrete column as a pier.  First off, I hate the way columns are put in at the moment.  Why can I not adjust the insertion elevations in the properties box when I put in a column.  The whole depth, height, level thing is TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE.  Well, after dealing with this issue and putting in the pier (Much more difficult than it should be)  Now I cant get the columns to attach together and the footing to automatically move to the bottom of the pier.  So I have to see what the slab elevation is and offset my footing from this elevation.  THIS IS AWFUL. This one's for you Autodesk.

 

Update:  Well, I don't really take any of it back, but you can use ALIGN to move the spread footings to the same elevations as the wall ftg which helps