In case anyone hasn’t received notice yet, Autodesk has officially released Service Pack 1 (aka “Update 1”). Use the links below to download the update from any of the product’s Download pages:
A list of the issues addressed in this service pack can be found in the following links for Architecture, Structure and MEP.
Special Note: I have installed SP1 this morning and can confirm that the previously reported network license timeout issue has not been resolved.
I’ve been asked a number of times in the past about how to customize the leader for tags – particularly wall tags – to get a thickened end and how to get that end to cross over the tagged wall. Most recently from the AUGI Forums. I felt it was time to create a short video tutorial to cover these tips.
Enjoy!
I’ve discovered a nasty problem with Revit 2010 when licensed with a network license. Autodesk’s FLEXLM solution allows for a TIMEOUT variable which we had to establish for previous versions. This option would return a license if a product crashes without successfully relinquishing the user’s license. This avoided falsely exceeding the actual number of licenses reported in use. In Revit 2010, the TIMEOUT seems to be enacted when your program session becomes idle beyond the duration of the TIMEOUT. On several occasions, I have left my desk to discuss a project with a colleague only to return and find I cannot save because I lost the network license connection.
This issue has been reported to Autodesk Support and I am awaiting a solution. Until then, if this is happening to you…be sure to save (locally and/or centrally…sorry, synchronize with central) frequently and especially if you are leaving your desk, checking email or anything other than actively working in Revit.
We have decided to upgrade one of our projects (mine) to Revit 2010 in an effort to fully understand the ramifications of the new user interface and help identify quirky things we would need to address in future training sessions.
One item I found early on relates to modifications to the text tool. While no feature enhancements were implemented in this release, the cursor and shape editing functions have changed for the worse. Take a look…
Perhaps you’ve already attempted to copy your old keyboard shortcuts file from an older version of Revit into the 2010 release…if not, be careful! If you have tried this, you’ll find that your keyboard shortcuts no longer work. Because of the new UI ribbon, the context of the keyboard shortcuts has changed from this:
…to this:
A comparison sample might be:
Revit has a handy little tool called “Paint” which is used to apply materials to surfaces of objects within the project model. While Paint is easy to use, one must apply it with care as certain ‘paintings’ may not make much sense to the integrity of your building information model. For example, try ‘painting’ the Glass material on a face of a masonry wall…the ‘painted’ face adopts the transparency of the material while the wall in section retains its original properties. Now try orbiting around the wall…
The next quirk of painting in Revit should probably be addressed by Autodesk as a bug. Let’s say we have a floor or roof object onto which we’d like to paint a thin finish material – let’s say blue tile. In the below example, I have created a 10’ x 10’ square floor which is displayed in the floor schedule as being exactly 100 SF in area. (Click the images to enlarge)
Note the Material Takeoff in the lower left does not display any materials yet because I have set the filter to exclude material names containing “Default” – which excludes Default Floor in this case.
Next, I begin to paint the top surface of the floor with the blue tile material and the Material Takeoff correctly reflects a tile area of 100 SF.
Continuing the painting on the bottom face of the floor correctly adjusts the Material Takeoff to 200 SF:
However, when I attempt to paint the edges of the floor, the Material Takeoff does not recognize these faces. Each edge of this 12” thick floor should register another 10 SF of tile area, but it remains at 200 SF.
Please be careful when using the “Paint” tool…in the meantime, this one will be sent to Autodesk Support.
Just a quick note to check out Zetlin & De Chiara’s latest newsletter in which I am featured in a BIM Roundtable discussion with John Rappaport of Component Assembly Systems and William Sharples and Jonathan Mallie of SHoP Construction. There are also several other articles on BIM and IPD.
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