Revit Users NT & Revit Argentina

It was great to catch up with some of the members of the Revit Users of Northern Territory, Gregg Jettner, Brad Hayward, John Berryman to name a few...

Whilst they tried to pick my brains on Revit questions majority were questions relating to AUGI and Autodesk University. I finally got to meet SA/NT's KarelCADs Sales Manager, Phil Sawbridge who had earlier demonstrated web-ex online demonstration - a very useful tool in training.

Later that day, I also recieved a nice note from a fellow Reviteer, Leonardo Martin Aita, who writes for Revit Argentina's blog who has a nice link video showing some Revit work... looks like I will have to brush up on my Spanish.

"Metric CadCARDs"

For those users still using AutoCAD injunction with or whilst learning Revit, Susan Dunn of Autograph Technical Services sent me this email about an exciting new product designed to assist, Save Time...Save Money...Accelerate Productivity and Education.

Autograph Technical Services introduces two new "Metric CadCARDs" - one version featuring ISO Sheet Sizes, and the other, ANSI and Architectural Sheet Sizes into metric conversions. Text heights, dimensioning operations, and all other functions have been revised and updated to be the perfect metric productivity, reference, and educational tools for use with AutoCAD.

CadCARD SlideCharts are updated through AutoCAD 2009 and also compatible with other versions of AutoCAD - including 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2002, 2000, R14, R12, LT, earlier versions of AutoCAD, and other software that functions with AutoCAD. In addition, some features are useful with other CAD programs such as Revit...

Be sure to check them out at www.cadcard.com

Its finally happened...

After many members asking me when is it likely to happen, Autodesk have finally announced that that all three Revit products are now available to Subscription customers in 64 bit versions.

It has been reported that the 64 bit verions offer improved performance for memory intensive tasks such as rendering, printing, model upgrading and file importing and exporting.

If you're a 64bit operating system user and an Autodesk Subsrciption user then I'd be seriously checking this out...