Some New Bloggers on the Block

Steve Swensen is REVIT GUY
Oliver is the author of Revit In Motion
and you can find more interesting reading at revitflow

I look forward to reading your posts guys.

BIMtionary

Brandon Pike has started a new blog called BIMtionary. His posts include tiers of BIM Implementation and a Revit Implementation Checklist. I look forward to his future posts.

AEC EDGE Magazine

AUGI has published their first quarterly AEC EDGE Magazine. This has been reported on several blogs already but I really enjoyed it so I thought I'd post too.

XL2CAD for Revit

Dotsoft has ported their AutoCad excel software to Revit. Place excel spreadsheets into Revit via linked DXF files.

http://www.dotsoft.com/revit/

Journal of Building Information Modeling

Read what some of the industry experts have to say about BIM in the relatively new Journal of Building Information Modeling.

Revit News & Resources

The UK Revit Users group is hosting a Revit Design Awards 2007 but you have to work in the UK to enter.

For those of you familiar with Content Highway or other Family File managers there is a new program being exhibited at this years AIA Convention in San Antonio, Texas. It's called techtonic and includes many very attractive features. TechtonicStudio also has a library of 100,000 commercial interior finishes for those of you who do a lot of photorealistic rendering and could use a new source of material maps.

Sometimes visitors to my blog ask me how they can print the blog for future reference. If you have a PDF writer like PDFCreator, CutePDF, or PDF Factory you should be able to print the webpage to PDF.

New Features in Revit 2008

Here is a list of some of the new and perhaps less obvious features in Revit Architecture 2008:

• Plan Regions are now always visible and easier to find.
• The element graphics of Section Boxes, Plan Regions, Crop Regions, Titleblocks, and Schedules can now be overridden once placed.
• Roof Tags are now available.
• Walls sweeps can now be scheduled.
• When "including elements linked in files" into your schedules you can now also schedule the name of the RVT linked file that hosts the family (for managing large divided projects).
• New shortcuts for Groups, Visibilty Overrides, etc.
• Element overrides appear to be the only view specific overrides that dependent views do not share with their parent views.
• You can link RVT projects as overlay or attachments ("attachments" will also load all rvt files nested into the linked rvt. "overlay" will only load the imported rvt).

With view specific graphic overrides for individual elements there appears to be not much use for the silhouette tool anymore (but you never know).