Autodesk University London 2019 Recap

I had the good fortune to attend Autodesk University London 2019 this past week. It was a nice event at a beautiful faculty in the heart of London, England. This post recaps the highlights of the conference, mostly in pictures.

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The First Ever Enscape User Group Meeting - London, England 2019

Last week I had the good fortune to attend the first ever, in the entire world, Enscape User Group Meeting in London, England. The gathering was graciously hosted by KPF Associates in their London office.

The meeting was organized by the Enscape team, with the timing being strategically the day before Autodesk University - London. They even gave away some great prizes.

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Heading to Autodesk University - London 2019

Things will be pretty quite around here for the next week weeks. I am heading off the London tomorrow for a Family vacation and to attend Autodesk University - London.

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Revit Schedules and Itemize Every Instance

In Revit schedules, the 'schedule properties' option Itemize Every Instance can be used to quickly enter the same data in every element listed. For example, let's look at the cost estimating schedule I wrote about here: Cost Estimating Directly in Revit... what if we wanted to update the Tax Rate to be the same, and not blank, value for every instance? Here's how...

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'Tis the Season for Training!

As we roll into summer, the construction season shifts to full throttle... especially in our colder climates where such work is more difficult/costly in the  winter months. I was doing Revit training this week with two new hires at LHB, and they agreed to let me share...

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Ben Sherman - Class of 2019 - Thesis Project

A quick plug for Ben Sherman, a fresh architecture grad from Dunwoody in Minneapolis, MN. Ben was an intern working for me and now is working in our housing group. I wrote about a previous Dunwoody thesis review I was involved in here: Dunwoody Architecture - Thesis Final Part 1.

Ben agreed to let me share his final thesis project... which includes some nice Enscape renderings as well:)

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Move BIM 360 Cache Files to Another Drive

I have been looking into how to deal with a too-small hard drive (C drive) on my new laptop. As I mentioned in a recent post, the BIM 360 local files take up a lot of space... but they technically cannot be moved.

This post covers a workaround not technically supported by Autodesk, although offered by them via an employee post on an Autodesk forum. Please vote for the Revit Idea linked at the end of this post.

There are challenges deploying something like this to the masses, as noted recently by Aaron Maller in this thread on Twitter.

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