Thursday, May 30, 2013

New Point Cloud Manipulation Videos Posted -- ReCap / Revit / AutoCAD



  • ReCap demonstration with a mechanical room scan 
  • Revit and point clouds demonstration 
  • AutoCAD and point clouds demonstration 

See https://www.youtube.com/user/LTC3D

Monday, May 13, 2013

Revit 2013 Update Release 2

Recently, one my client's computers did not have the latest update of Revit and was experiencing crashes when using a workshared project. It is optimal that people use the same version of software when working on the same projects.

To check one’s Revit version, click the little down-arrow next to the question mark in the upper-right corner of Revit:


Click “About…”


The dialog should look say “Update Release 2” like this:


If you need to download the update for Revit MEP, its URL is http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=20679258&linkID=12828318 then select the appropriate download e.g., “Revit MEP 2013 UR2 (64-bit) (exe - 83079Kb)”

Revit Architecture:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=20679231&linkID=9273944

Revit Structure:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=20679170&linkID=9280927

Cleaning Up The Disks

Just found an open-source utility that maps out disk usage: WinDirStat <http://windirstat.info>

You let it run and it shows an overview of all of your disk usage. It also lets you delete selected files -- nice!
The largest rectangles in the drive map are the largest files, click on one and it shows you its info and lets you manipulate it.
I have been working with laser scan point clouds recently. We fill up disk space very quickly; I think this will come in handy.