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http://www.eareport.com/reprints-pdf/pdf/2000-12-revit.pdf http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=20803 Charles River Software 0.1 1999 11 (Early Adopter 1) 0.2 2000 01 (Early Adopter 2) Revit Technology Corporation 1.0 2000 04 2.0 2000 08 2.1 2000 10 3.0 2001 02 3.1 2001 06 4.0 2001 11 4.1 2002 01 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Autodesk Revit *.* 2002 04 04 (Autodesk buys Revit Technology Corp) 4.5 2002 05 09 5.0 2002 12 17 *.* 2003 04 28 (Zoogdesign Revit Forum goes Live) 5.1 2003 05 5.5 2003 04 01 (pseudo mac release screen shot, April Fools joke...Author unknown) 6.0 2003 12 22 6.1 2004 03 11 *.* 2004 05 26 (Zoogdesign Read Only to Merge with AUGI) 7.0 2004 12 13 Autodesk Revit Building (New Name) 8.0 2005 02 26ish 8.1 2005 08 12 (web release then withdrawn) 8.1 2005 08 23 (Actual release) 9.0 2006 04 12 (Shipping & Web Release) Autodesk Revit Series (Marketing Bundle w/ AutoCAD) 1

Turning CO2 into concrete may be one of many ways to sequester our carbon dioxide issues... See what Calera is up to on their web site!

Dennis Neely wrote an article you can read on Reed Construction Data- On the project he quoted the Architect took on more fees and proceeded to save the client big bucks in the long run. It looks like the hope is the industry will build all the fine content and architects will just use it- but the reality is there is not any standardization across the manufacturers for content. What we need is a Data mapper database to help tanslate and funnel all that manufacturer content into parameters we can and will actually use. Its a nich market - architectural data managers- and we are going to need to meet these data coordination issues sooner than later. Owners - It's Time to Substantially Increase Your Architect's and EngineerDennis's Fees

Rent or own software - flying in the clouds- remote access- There is much more coming- Microsoft is attempting to brand the cloud... With collaborative packages like Revit there are huge potential gains from wider pipes for data transmission (think intranet 1GB/sec VS direct disk access) - it is a lot faster to reference in other files that aren't being updated, riverbed'ed, pushed or pulled across networks (especially distant ones) One Major drawback- if the internet is cut or lost- you're stranded and down just as if the power went out. So best to have several pipelines routed out the front and back of the office in case one gets cut ; ) AEC Bytes BIM and the Cloud Chris France - CIO, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting covers these basic benefits of Cloud Computing in his article on AEC bytes he covers- 1. Growing Desktop Computing Needs 2. Collaborating Over Wide Area Geography 3. Collaborating with Outside Firms on the Same Model 4. IT Infrastructure Cost Conso

AutoCAD VBA And - reset fonts to Arial... OPTION EXPLICIT Sub ResetTextStyles_TO_ARIAL() ''reset ROMANS and other text styles to ARIAL Dim ObjTStyle As AcadTextStyle For Each ObjTStyle In ThisDrawing.TextStyles ObjTStyle.fontFile = "C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ARIAL.TTF" Next ObjTStyle End Sub

AutoCAD VBA Routine to strip formatting in ALL Autocad MTEXT (Translating Revit "text" to autocad drawings dumps as MTEXT with some odd formatting issues) try this: OPTION EXPLICIT Sub Make_Mtext_StyleDependant() Dim oAcadObj As AcadObject Dim ObjBlock As AcadBlock Dim ObjBlocks As AcadBlockReference Dim ObjTxt As AcadMText Dim ObjAcad As AcadObject Dim x For Each ObjBlock In ThisDrawing.Blocks If InStr(1, LCase(ObjBlock.Name), "seal") < 1 Then ''don't mess with the seals! For Each ObjAcad In ObjBlock If InStr(1, LCase(ObjAcad.ObjectName), "mtext") > 0 Then Set ObjTxt = ObjAcad x = Split(ObjTxt.TextString, ";") ''split all formatting delimeters in the text string ObjTxt.TextString = x(UBound(x)) ''take the last one (Should be text)- may not work correctly on stacked fractions.... 'S