Autodesk University is the best event of the year to better your collective skills on our applications, get to know the Product Teams, and network with peers. Hands down. I love it myself, as it's a great resource for me to gather customer feedback and requirements.
In an effort to make the event even more valuable for attendees, we have created a survey for people to help us decide what classes to offer.
I wanted to let everybody know that Revit MEP 2009 has officially
released! We have activated the download for the release, which can be
found here.
Like a proud parent
watching their children (you) learn to ride a bike (Revit MEP), we hope
that you will be successful in riding that bike wherever you may want
to go. With many improvements since last years bike, we hope that you
all will ride without training wheels (Export to AutoCAD), avoid
falling (crashes), and hitting holes in the road (workset issues).
Biking analogies aside, we
hope you all enjoy using the new release, and take some time to explore
the new features and workflows that have been implemented. I will continue to discuss the new release with all of you here Inside the System.
A recent post on our discussion forums asked a pretty basic question about how to select multiple elements at the same time. To me this is Revit 101, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I've had the luxury of learning this stuff from the gurus that roam the halls of the Revit Factory. Not all of you have this opportunity, so hey, let's spread the wealth.
When you select something in a Revit view, it highlights in Red to let you know it's selected. When I have multiple Elements selected, we call that a Selection Set. If I have similar items selected, like Pipes and Pipe Fittings, I can make changes to all the Elements in the Selection Set, which is quite handy.
Being the huge dork that I am, I've put together a video explaining the various options in Revit to select Elements in a Revit view.
I know was probably a bit basic for some of you out there, but I've got to lay the foundation from time to time. I hope you all learned something today, at the very least that my dork quotient continues to remain high.
One of the most powerful value propositions of the Revit Platform is a model-based environment. I knew that when I first read about the product and saw it years back, before I started working at Autodesk. To me, the writing was on the wall...an intelligent model can be leveraged for so many design tasks. Pretty pictures of your designs, composed with lines, arcs, and circles? Well, let's just say that there's a little less long-term value embedded in such a deliverable.
One of the immediate values to MEP Engineers, even before they have made any major decisions about their building service designs, is to leverage the architect's model to determine the peak energy requirements of their design. That peak energy requirement needs to be met by the building services, which are up to the MEP Engineer to design. Their designed systems must remove from the building the peak cooling load in the summer, and add to the building the peak heating load in the winter. How they go about achieving this task plays out later in the design process, but you must start with the energy requirements.
We understood this requirement at Autodesk, and saw the potential for Revit MEP to meet this need for MEP Engineers. With the release of Revit MEP 2008 last year, we delivered the first version of this capabilty to our user base. This year, we're delivering the second release of this capability, which takes advantage of the capabilities I have outlined extensively in previous posts. Let's see how it all works.
I'm sure you can see the value here, and the capabilities that we've provided to MEP Engineers even before they model a single duct, pipe, or circuit. With the major capability of the application covered, we can move on the other enhancements that are delivered with Revit MEP 2009.
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A few posts back I pointed you all to a tool posted on Dave Baldacchino's great blog, Do U Revit. Since I subscribe to his RSS Feed, I get an e-mail in my inbox whenever he has a new post.
Well, this morning he posted an update to his local file management tool, so I wanted to point you all to it. This tool seems to really reduce some of the pain to local file management, so I wanted to give you all a heads up. Because, you know, I care about all of you diehard Inside the System readers.
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