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Anatomy of a Cross Section

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Civil 3D 2008 Cross-Section Views are interesting objects because they are a reflection of design you have done up to the point of creating them. They are not an object from which you can edit your design.

Cross-section views are meant to be plotted from a view port. You may be surprised if you are expecting the labeling and styles to behave the same as a profile view.

I hope the attached document helps remove some of the mystery from cross-section views.

Happy Thanksgiving!

See you at AU!

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Additional Revit MEP Content

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

We would like to let everybody know that Autodesk has just released their Revit MEP Content Extension on their website. There’s more MEP content that needs to be built, but this is a step in the right direction. The Revit MEP® Content Extension provides new content for Revit MEP users. Both Imperial and Metric versions of the content are available for download below, in ZIP format. After download, users can then uncompress the file to the desired content location.

Before You Download
The content files are compressed with their path information included back to the root directory of the folder structure installed with Revit® MEP 2008 Web Update #2. For example, in a default installation of Imperial content, the ZIP file would be uncompressed at:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\RME 2008\Imperial Library In this situation, all files will be uncompressed to the correct folders.Click Here to Download

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Additional Revit Structure Content

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Being on Subscription has it’s privileges. There is additional content in a new Structural Library for Revit® Structure 2008 and a new Truss Wizard program that subscription customers can download from their subscription center site.

The Subscription Structural Library provides some new structural content such as Families (.rfa), Type Catalogs (.txt) and/or Project Templates (.rte) for Revit® Structure 2008. After the download, subscription user can uncompress the .zip package using WinZip and then load the content into the project.

Revit® Structure 2008 also offers Subscription customers an application to help model and create trusses using industry-standard truss profiles as templates. Users can define the number of panels, peak locations, and truss heights as well as truss member sizes, and the TrussWizard creates the truss within the Revit Structure model.

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Civil 3D Users Unite

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Just wanted to let all those in the southeastern Wisconsin area that we have two Civil 3D User Groups meeting within the next week. Thursday, Nov. 8th, at the MasterGraphics Waukesha office is the Milwaukee-area user group. Thursday, Nov. 15th in the MasterGraphics Madison office is the Madison-area user group.

Even if you aren’t a Civil 3D user….yet….you may want to drop in and listen to the discussion. These are real users, working with real production issues. Both meetings are scheduled for the lunch-time so there will be food involved.

Hope to see you there!