November 20, 2023
Recover, Audit, and Purge with AutoCAD
Join our Senior AEC Technical Specialist, James Cuervo, as he shares some best practices for keeping your AutoCAD files running smoothly using the Recover, Audit, and Purge commands in AutoCAD. For more information, please contact us at info@ddscad.com.
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James Cuervo
November 10, 2023
Design Center Basics in AutoCAD
Join our Senior AEC Technical Specialist, James Cuervo, shows us the basics of the Design Center. This includes a safer alternative to copy and paste across sessions of AutoCAD by exporting and importing blocks. For more information, please contact us at info@ddscad.com.
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James Cuervo
November 9, 2023
Pattern-Based Curtain Walls with Revit – Part 3
In this three-part series, we explore pattern-based curtain walls while using Dynamo to enhance our designs. After using Dynamo to enhance our family, we can now associate it with a project’s assets. Our intricate patterns are now part of the model. For more information, please contact us at info@ddscad.com Part 1: https://ddscad.com/pattern-based-curtain-walls-with-revit-part-1/Part 2: https://ddscad.com/pattern-based-curtain-walls-with-revit-part-2/
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James Cuervo
November 9, 2023
Pattern-Based Curtain Walls with Revit – Part 2
In this three-part series, we explore pattern-based curtain walls while using Dynamo to enhance our designs. We continue and utilize Dynamo in order to create a linked Dynamo project. Revit can then take this data and expedite the process. For more information, please contact us at info@ddscad.com Part 1: https://ddscad.com/pattern-based-curtain-walls-with-revit-part-1/Part 3: https://ddscad.com/pattern-based-curtain-walls-with-revit-part-3/
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James Cuervo
November 9, 2023
Pattern-Based Curtain Walls with Revit – Part 1
In this three-part series, we explore pattern-based curtain walls while using Dynamo to enhance our designs. We begin by creating a new Family with a pattern that can be customized. Then, we add it to a Curtain Wall and adjust its parameters. For more information, please contact us at info@ddscad.com Part 2: https://ddscad.com/pattern-based-curtain-walls-with-revit-part-2/Part 3: https://ddscad.com/pattern-based-curtain-walls-with-revit-part-3/
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James Cuervo
November 9, 2023
Annotative Text, Tags and Attributes
AutoCAD files can quickly get cluttered up and heavy, especially when you configure text, tags, and other attributes at multiple scales. Annotative Text, Tags, and Attributes alleviate the need for this and can help you keep your files light and efficient. For more information, please contact us at info@ddscad.com
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James Cuervo
November 3, 2023
Dynamic Bookmark Structures in Bluebeam Revu
Not only can we import bookmarks from PDFs created from CAD and BIM programs, but we can also create them for hundreds of pages by using page regions and Dynamic Bookmark Structures in Bluebeam Revu. Each bookmark can “teleport” you to a specific page or location. If you want them to automatically populate numerically, then…
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Ariel Rejtman
October 13, 2023
Cutouts in Bluebeam Revu
After creating areas and other enclosed measurements, we sometimes need to remove portions of those measurements. This applies to engineers that are calculating the area of a wall while trying to exclude windows. We can do this by using the Polygon and Ellipse Cutout tools. They allow us to remove portions of our volumes and…
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Ariel Rejtman
September 28, 2023
Batch Signatures & Third-Party Authentication with Bluebeam Revu
Signing an individual document can take less than a minute if our signature’s appearance is prepared. However, this relatively small portion of time can be compounded exponentially when we need to sign tens of hundreds of PDFs. Thankfully, we have a batch signature tool in Bluebeam Revu that can reclaim hours of lost time on…
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Ariel Rejtman
September 28, 2023
Signatures and Certifications with Bluebeam Revu
Preparing our PDFs for third-party authenticated digital signatures is important when submitting them to cities and municipalities. Our markups can be flattened before signing the PDF, and we have two options: We can digitally sign our files with a visual signature. Likewise, we can use Document Certification to provide three different kinds of extra security…
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