Disruptive Technology at it's Finest!!!?

The clouds (costs) are falling!!!, The clouds (costs) are falling!!!

...And we couldn't be more pleased.

I am going to pull the trigger on this one for sure: @Bitcasa infinite cloud storage/sync/sharing is only $10 per month... Now we just need to wait for the impending Beta...

With the amount of data I have and the fact that I want universal access to it seems like this will be a big old HELL YEAH!!!

Hit the red links herein & the image for a review & more...

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Got Collaborate? AUGI World Can Help

In the August Issue of AugiWorld (Out Now!!!, from AUGI of course) our friend Troy Gates has contributed an article speaking to Revit Collaboration, lending a bit of historical foundation, for us to move into the unknown future from... As always hit the links & Images for the resources themselves, The image below will get you to where you can download your own copy... The embed above is the online readable version...

Take care, -J

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Do You Want To Be An Architect?

Sage advice that is spot on.
Too bad the damned video isn't shown in Architecture Schools (or earlier)!!!

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AUGIWORLD Content Managers Unite!!! TOOT, TOOT

If you'd like to download the Current AUGIWorld Issues (@AUGI) then hit the prior link... Hey; I know that (highlighted) guy...


Consider my own horn tooted XD...

The first issue that I CM'd the RAC will be out later this summer: August I believe. It will feature an article by the incomparable Troy Gates (@TroyGates)... So look out for that in the coming weeks...

Don't forget to read friend of this blog: Jon Landeros' (@JonLanderos) article co-written with John Evans, on Inventor too...

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New Revit Family Template!!! Bovine Model Face Based

In a previous post we got this comment;

Well Anonymous did you actually look??? It's the first one in the list...see below!!!

BTW: I thought the "I don't see the Bovine Template in my Family Editor" comment was hilarious!!!

Marcello from The Revit Complex sent me the image in response to that comment and oddly he thought I wouldn't post it... (silly Marcello, I guess you never saw the 'free cat' photo a friend said I wouldn't post!!! :-)

Just to add (more?) clarity to the propriety of modeling a cow, etc. in Revit...

NO ONE INTIMATED THAT YOU SHOULD MODEL A CAR or COW OR ANY OTHER LIVESTOCK IN REVIT... That said & as an ironic FYI The (Revit) Factory actually asked Marcello to model a cow, for them to test Revit's wall hosting functionality!!! Scoreboard Cow!!!

Now a hearty "get a life" to another "Anonymous"; the 'A-Hole-Anonymous' (who is not the anonymous mentioned above), but the anonymous who called me 'fatty' (LOL) & who completely missed the point, probably by NOT reading the posting they commented on...

Then Suddenly:
On to another comment: this one by someone with at least enough courage to post under their name; that said, their comment was: "Sure, you can excavate using spoon for a swimming pool too. But that would take years. No matter how open minded you are, creating consent like a car in Revit is not viable option economically at this moment."

...REALLY? First off it's 'content' but I get that was just a thoughtless typo in a less than thoughtful comment... Maybe consider (AND READ) what you write before spewing onto the world...

While that 'excavate with a spoon' comment may be clever, or funny; it is both wonderfully incorrect as well as an extremely myopic perspective that is simply a personal & limited outlook

...for several reasons:
1) They were paid for by clients!!! (Doh)
2) They were intended to show possibilities & how to use Revit at a very high level (which they do).
3) There are infinite possibilities for creation and who the fuck are you to say what is or isn't appropriate for someone to create? (No-one, that's who).

THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND THERE IS ROOM FOR ALL & ALL OF THEIR CREATIONS...HATERS NEED TO LIGHTEN UP!!!

EVEN CREATIVE ACTS THAT WE DON'T PERSONALLY LIKE OR BELIEVE IN MUST BE PROTECTED: KIND OF LIKE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, REMEMBER?

WE DON'T NEED TO AGREE WITH EVERYTHING OTHERS CREATE BUT WE MUST BE OPEN TO THEIR FREEDOM TO CREATE, OR AT LEAST OPEN TO THE EXISTENCE OF THE CREATION & VALIDITY THEREOF, AS THERE ARE PROBABLY GREAT LESSONS TO LEARN (AND DIFFERENT LESSONS FOR EVERYONE).

Yes there is freedom of speech, so all of the comments good/bad are welcomed, just know that:

WITH FREEDOM OF SPEECH COMES FREEDOM OF CONSEQUENCE(S).

Creativity is speech, just like all speech, including comments on blogs, because:
The stones we throw may just be aimed at ourselves.

AS LONG AS ONE PERSON THINKS SOMETHING IS WORTHY OF CREATING THAT IS ENOUGH REASON FOR IT'S EXISTENCE.

JUDGEMENT IS GREAT FOR KILLING IDEAS.

CREATING IS BEYOND JUDGEMENT.

Marcello said something wonderful at a recent LARUG: "I am about 'could', while others are about 'should'"... Whether he knows it or not that is what separates Artists from Idiots... Artists are concerned with doing & idiots are concerned with stifling & killing creativity.

That's the reason I don't answer "WHY" questions in classes, only "HOW" questions... Why's are left for after class, when time is not important.

Oh yeah: since the truck & the Telehandler WERE PAID FOR BY A CLIENT then I again suggest that taking a wider view of the world & it's potentials will prove a strategy to suffice much better... Remember that We, as individuals may not know it all...

Until you walk a mile in my shoes...right???!!!

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Revit Keyboard Shortcuts: Just For You ...And You Know Who You Are

I am posting these so I can easily get to them, but if you'd like to use these feel free to download & share at will... Hit the images as usual...

To use the actual XML file (in case you didn't know):
Big R>Options>User Interface Tab>Keyboard Shortcuts: Customize...Import...

 
An Excel file of the shortcuts to organize & print & learn & share...

"...Do you know what (who) you are? You are what (who) you is, you is what you am, the cow don't make ham..."

If you are that "Anonymous" that hated on the Revit Cow you should know: You Have a broken heart....

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Simply Complex, The Revit Complex (Freudians Unite)

The Revit Complex; by Marcello Sgambelluri is one of the newest and in my opinion most long awaited Blogs to get onto the BIM Blog train... Now we just need him to become a Twit(terer)... Come on Marcello: No @... for you???

...Long anticipated yet if his posts keep up the quality of work (which it will) that I know him to produce professionally, then we are in store for fun times and great avenues to learn and expand our own craft; whether Structural, Architectural, or MEPural (Yes, MEPural is now a real word, so get over it!!!). Good things come to those of us who wait and The Revit Complex immediately adds (and will continue to add) to our growing Revit, BIM & modeling toolbox... If you can follow the complexity that is :-)

Marcello is a dedicated Reviteur and has produced some of the more complex geometric projects for John A Martin Associates;  At times working with and pushing The (Revit) Factory to either add new functionality or come up with strategies to work around some limitations that we still :-( find in Revit (see his article in the old AECEdge about: multiple-directionally-curved-beams: and the masses that they need to be modeled as).

That said the Revit Cow & the Elephant (images link to the posts) are ALL examples of Native Revit, no additives or fillers or other byproducts!!! 250 hours or so each but the question: "Can complex geometry be modeled in Revit?" can now and once again be laid to rest perhaps FOREVER!!! 

Phew... Thanks Marcello!!!

I am so F'ing tired of answering that question, so it's great that now we can point them to your Blog as another place to dispell some of the BS people (read as: AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, etc. users) say about what Revit can or can't do... but that will be another post...

Back to it... My bottom line:  I am very happy to welcome Marcello to the Revit-O-BIM-O-Blog-O-Sphere and will keep a close eye on all that is Simply Complex! and suggest that you hit his site and follow & join him and his digital presence!!!

BTW: a little secret about those tires above...Shhhh... They are Curtain Panels!!!

Yikes!!! 

The oft-improperly and quite over used cliché about thinking "out of the box" is actually both applicable here and also a double entendre!!! It applies as is, for doing anything of value like complex modeling; and also works as in: We need to look "out(side) of the box" for tools and methods and thoughts to do anything complex &/or worthwhile!!! Here's to a long life of learning & sharing with & from Marcello...and join in The Revit Complex... I have it bad!!!

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