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Mountain Modern 3-D Model in Freewheel

With the capabilities of Freewheel to allow for internet visuallization of our 3-D models, I wanted to try it out on our Mountain Modern project. The controls will take a bit of getting used to and we will continue to refine how we can integrate the interface more seamlessly into our magazine, but we’re pretty [...]

Elicia Ratajczyk to Speak on Architectural Software at Rocky Mountain Masonry Institute

Elicia Ratajczyk from EVstudio’s Evergreen office will be participating in a panel discussion at the Rocky Mountain Masonry Institute on Wednesday July 8th from 11:30 to 1:00. The topic for the panel is working professionals opinions on the software that they use in their practice, especially with regards to masonry design. RMMI is at 686 [...]

Great AutoCAD Hatch Pattern T-Shirts at Archinect

I think that any architect or other frustrated AutoCAD user will appreciate the new Hatch Pattern Shirts for sale at Archinect. They’ve given me a few ideas and Archinect is well worth checking out.

OSMODE System Variable in AutoCAD – How to Reset Your OSNAP Settings With a Number

There will come a time when Autodesk’s AutoCAD will forget your object snap settings. Sometimes a poorly written lisp routine will reset them and occasionally they just change for no apparent reason. Thankfully there is a very easy way to get them back without going through the menus to change the check boxes. AutoCAD uses [...]

EVstudio is Upgrading to AutoCAD Architecture 2009 and Revit Architecture 2009 – Why Support Both?

EVstudio is upgrading to the latest versions of AutoCAD Architecture and Revit Architecture. We currently use a previous version of AutoCAD on the majority of our projects and Revit on select projects. There is a lot of debate on the advantages of one software program vs the other. At this point it seems that neither [...]

Revit Structure

Dean and I had lunch today with Julian Lineham and Chris O’Hara from Studio NYL. One of the topics that we discussed was the great success that they are having utilizing Revit Structure. They’re using it on about 50% of their projects and have found that it makes analysis much faster on certain building types. [...]

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