Making Your Way in the World Today
Takes everything you've got....or at least the Steering Wheel and a Revit Camera View.
The Steering Wheel
The Steering Wheel is a new navigation tool that's been implemented in the 2009 Revit Family of products. Those familiar with the most recent version on Autodesk Design Review will recognize this tool. The tool has been implemented across all Revit Products, as well as all AutoCAD-based products. We think it will create a common interaction method across these major platforms, and allow for nice walthroughs to boot...
Enough talking though, you all don't come here religiously to hear my random musings, you're here for some nice video!
Note: I just got the newest version of Camtasia and I can't seem to figure out why this video is so large. Sorry for the big file, but I had to move on after spending an hour trying to get it to shrink down.
The Steering Wheel - Navigation
You'll notice that I used a Revit model of my apartment for this video, which is a project I've been modeling on the side. As my lovely wife likes to say, I'm a "huge dork", so I just couldn't resist the opportunity to build a model of our apartment. I'm sure that I'll blog a bit more about that process, as it's been quite interesting (modeling the couch took FOREVER for me, as I'm a relative newbie in Family Editor).
In the interim though, I thought I'd throw up a couple of renderings that I created using the shiny new MentalRay rendering engine....cause I just wouldn't be living up to my "huge dork" title otherwise.
Hey,this article is good.I really appreciate the way you put across the things.Good going!!
~Regards
Chandira
Posted by:Chandira | February 26, 2008 at 03:25 PM
Very cool stuff, kind of feels like Navisworks (Hmmmmmm, I wonder why). I am just hoping that maybe there are some performance improvements that will allow this to run pretty smooth (kind of like Naivsworks) when you have larger models.
Keep it up Kyle! I just can't wait until you get into more MEP toys we have to look forward to /drool!
Big Thanks,
Joe
Posted by:Joe Fields | February 28, 2008 at 07:42 PM
I like it...now if they would just incorporate it into navisworks.
Posted by:clark morgan | March 14, 2008 at 05:03 PM