Just a small but simple change to Revit 2011 is the behaviour and display of temporary dimensions.

In previous versions of Revit if you repositioned the temporary dimensions but did not make the dimension

permanent then Revit reset the dimension to its previous position, very annoying!

This has now been addressed and furthermore you can now change the text size

of the temporary dimensions in the Options dialog.

Simple but effective!

Lawrenceh

The latest Revit 2011 Updates are available from the following links:

Revit Architecture 2011 Update 1

Revit Structure 2011 Update 1

Revit MEP 2011 Update 1

The enhancement lists are also listed with them.

The guys and girls at Autodesk Labs have once again been busy updating and refining some of the great new technologies for Autodesk Inventor 2011.

This one below will take AutoCAD 2D drawings and assist in creating 3D Parametric models within Inventor 2011.

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/2d_to_3d_tool/

Simply start with at least two 2D drawing views in AutoCAD.

Import this into an Inventor Part file and then finish the sketch. Notice the 2D to 3D panel shown below.

Click the base view.

Once this is done add the Projected views as shown below and Inventor will align these views Automatically.

If the Alignment is not correct then use the Align Sketch Tool.

Use the Extrude tool to Extrude to a selected point on the sketch and then a second Extrude, in this case, using an intersect.

Here is the result in 3D.

A quick tool to take 2D CAD drawings and create 3D parametric Inventor components.

LawrenceH

I came across this great article by Zach Kron (buildz) the other day which I think is well worth reading. It highlights what could be the best part of the solar radiation technology preview: the fact that once run the analysis view remains dynamic as you manipulate the form.

Follow the link to read the full article

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/buildz/~3/ns7XlpHFQ6I/form-finding-with-solar-radiation.html

Re-posting from “BIM and Beam”. And here is the link to the article RISA-Revit 2011 Link Now Available!

Or check it out here