Work with SketchUp and IFC together- January 24, 2008 If your a SketchUp user listen up; you can now take an IFC file and import into your SketchUp model. Joe passed this along earlier to me and it shows a proof of concept (free beta available) that allows you to take an IFC file and import the geometry and data (ex. Revit parameter information) into SketchUp. This plug-in (available here) was created by Secom and distributed by Cadalog, Inc.http://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2008/01/work-with-sketchup-and-ifc-together.html CES TV mischief - Video- January 11, 2008 Have you ever wanted to turn off multiple TV's at once, maybe for a bit of mischiefpranking or even a "real" life need (and I keep drawing a blank on what that could be). Well the Gizmodo crew did just that at CES: In browsing the web this morning I ran across video from CES showing just such a scenario courtesty of Gizmodo here. For those who may want to tinker with this device, for underhttp://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2008/01/ces-tv-mischief-video.html Developers Conference - 3ds Max, Maya- January 11, 2008 Autodesk is holding a combined 3ds Max and Maya developer conference in Scottsdale, Arizona on May 5-8, 2008. Early bird registration is now until 2292008. More details: http:area.autodesk.comindex.phpmasterclasseventhttp://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2008/01/developers-conference-3ds-max-maya.html New Build of Revit for the leap year bug- January 9, 2008 In this post we mentioned an issue with the month of January 2008 and that Autodesk is aware and working on a fix. As it turns out it seems to be a leap year issue and fixes are available for Revit Architecture, Revit Structure & Revit MEP in the form of new builds (technically this is SP4 but the website lists them as SP3 for all products). You can install these if you are affected or wait untilhttp://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-build-of-revit-for-leap-year-bug.html Revit Unspecified Error- January 4, 2008 Over the last few days there has been a number of errors within Revit (Architecture, Structure and MEP) when doing common tasks, showing up in the form of an "Unspecified Error" to be exact. Some of these problems include: From Revit 9.1 - When trying to save Groups to .rvg file types2008 - Editing of Groups2008 - Opening legacy files in Revit Architecture 2008 2008 - Saving a view out of thehttp://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2008/01/revit-unspecified-error.html Searching for trends- January 1, 2008 For those interested in the latest search trends and news that is occuring you can keep up with it all Google thanks to Google Trends. This is updated Daily and you can see what the latest news is on a particular date (starting from May 15 2007). So if you are looking to see what is being searched for the most this new years day check out : http:www.google.comtrendshottrendssa=X&date=2008http://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2008/01/searching-for-trends.html Have a safe, happy and green new year...- January 1, 2008 I wanted to take a moment to say thanks for everyone who reads this blog, sends e-mails and also those who come out to meet and talk with us in different cities. You are the reason this adventure continues, we wish you the best in 2008 and hope to see you soon. Have a safe, happy and green new year...http://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2007/12/have-safe-happy-and-green-new-year.html Fused - Digital & Home Life Coming Together- January 1, 2008 With the discussion of personal technology integration over the past few years we have seen ideas like internet enabled refrigerators, smart table top and surface computing, smart home systems and more. While some of these ideas seem a bit far fetched, others are much more of a helpful addition to our current lifestyles. With Christmas now behind us and everyone I know, including myself, withhttp://rndr4food.blogspot.com/2007/12/fused-digital-home-life-coming-together.html |