Images of items I have purchased.
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Don't worry - Revit isn't half as scary or complicated as many people make out.
It has huge potential and can be put to incredible use, notably when working in collaboration with other disciplines, but all time invested in training pays off with dividends when it comes to revisions and especially tender issue
I learnt the basics through a course and some self-taught training, but truly the best way to progress is to get to grips on it with something real
I've found that Revit, and AutoCAD for that matter (after having started CAD work with Solidworks), are no where near as flexible as they should be. I do fairly simple family creation with Revit, and it really isn't made for that...trying to extrude at an angle is almost impossible. It has a loads of quirks that are completely nonsensical. I do like using it, don't get my wrong, but I spend half my time battling with it.
Also, I spent ages making families for work in Revit 2015, and then it turned out that most of the construction industry in the UK uses Revit 2013...which makes 2015 pointless for me, and I had to remake all the families
It wasn't parking lessons then?
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OoooOooo
They are actually old markings that had to be redone as they originally put them in the wrong place, so no, she's nicely in the bay thanks
They are actually old markings that had to be redone as they originally put them in the wrong place, so no, she's nicely in the bay thanks
My faith in your parking abilities is restored.
Enjoy your purchase.
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Arrived today
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Loving the mercenary-ness. How can one ever prove something like that is genuine?
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Very cute. Good choice of carpet colour, anything light is a no-no with most dogs!
sorry for long blurb in images purchansed thread
AUTOCAD / REVIT users here:-
I like how we come creeping out of the woodwork when anyone mentions software
My choice to learn revit is with the aim of finding another job - the place I'm at now is never going to make the transition
My machine is an i5 16gb ram and a 3gb amd7950 gfx card with an ssd, so it should handle revit for learning stuff at home.
Funny how most people I know with any kind of CAD experience are generally self taught the basics to get their foot in the door. I know I started off just messing about doing stuff at home - I landed my first trainee cad job about the same time I enrolled on a C&G course - 2d/3d/3d wire frame at my local college, couple of nights a week for ~ 2 1/5 years maybe?
I found that the self taught stuff was a head start, but being taught the proper way to do cad gave me a more in depth understanding of how to draft with the software. Add the potential of LISP coding in full autocad which was very much a trial and error experience and I found I knew more about the nuts and bolts of the software than most of my contemporaries at work.
Having said that, over the years I've not had the luxury of being able to specialise in a specific area of cad design - I started with refrigeration fit outs for national supermarket chains (tesco, safeway/morrisons, marks & spencer, dunnes stores, co-op etc) redundancy led to fire alarm installation and panel design and assignment, followed by some bespoke mechanical lift manufacturing, and finally I work as 'the only cad guy in the office' for an electrical subcontractor - we do office fittouts; electrical design, bus bar installation, data networks, fire alarm detection and security fitouts and lighting design using Relux - *shudders*
Most recently the jobs have been for county councils and university refurbs.
Some interesting stuff, but with some really frustrating deadlines. But that's what you get being at a smallish company.
I've seen the potential power of revit in various youtube tutorials, and the increasing incidence of the architects we work with using revit and not autocad, plus I've heard that government contracts (and probably local government/council too) will be stating revit use as part of standards compliance in the next few years.
All in all, I'm quite looking forward to learning something new; If I stay where I am, in 5 years time I'll be the wrong side of 40, still using autoCAD LT, knocking off the same fitouts and details with the same limited resources and information - a prospect I find a lot scarier that Revit's lack of crosshairs or commandline!
AUTOCAD / REVIT users here:-
I like how we come creeping out of the woodwork when anyone mentions software
My choice to learn revit is with the aim of finding another job - the place I'm at now is never going to make the transition
My machine is an i5 16gb ram and a 3gb amd7950 gfx card with an ssd, so it should handle revit for learning stuff at home.
Funny how most people I know with any kind of CAD experience are generally self taught the basics to get their foot in the door. I know I started off just messing about doing stuff at home - I landed my first trainee cad job about the same time I enrolled on a C&G course - 2d/3d/3d wire frame at my local college, couple of nights a week for ~ 2 1/5 years maybe?
I found that the self taught stuff was a head start, but being taught the proper way to do cad gave me a more in depth understanding of how to draft with the software. Add the potential of LISP coding in full autocad which was very much a trial and error experience and I found I knew more about the nuts and bolts of the software than most of my contemporaries at work.
Having said that, over the years I've not had the luxury of being able to specialise in a specific area of cad design - I started with refrigeration fit outs for national supermarket chains (tesco, safeway/morrisons, marks & spencer, dunnes stores, co-op etc) redundancy led to fire alarm installation and panel design and assignment, followed by some bespoke mechanical lift manufacturing, and finally I work as 'the only cad guy in the office' for an electrical subcontractor - we do office fittouts; electrical design, bus bar installation, data networks, fire alarm detection and security fitouts and lighting design using Relux - *shudders*
Most recently the jobs have been for county councils and university refurbs.
Some interesting stuff, but with some really frustrating deadlines. But that's what you get being at a smallish company.
I've seen the potential power of revit in various youtube tutorials, and the increasing incidence of the architects we work with using revit and not autocad, plus I've heard that government contracts (and probably local government/council too) will be stating revit use as part of standards compliance in the next few years.
All in all, I'm quite looking forward to learning something new; If I stay where I am, in 5 years time I'll be the wrong side of 40, still using autoCAD LT, knocking off the same fitouts and details with the same limited resources and information - a prospect I find a lot scarier that Revit's lack of crosshairs or commandline!
You are going to look like a badass when taking them for a walk.
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I actually got my job just as they started making the move to Revit, and with my 18 month break, found it quite easy to pick up. To be honest most of our work could probably still be done in AutoCAD (anybody else finding AutoCAD Architecture 2015 to be really buggy?) though one of our frameworks is with a Council that are strongly pushing for collaborative BIM projects to help secure their Government funding.
As has been mentioned, you do find yourself fighting it sometimes, and the lack of being able to save back to earlier versions is a pain (especially where half of the office haven't upgraded from 2014 yet).
To keep on topic, I've bought a helmet cam. Spot the awesome focal point.
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